Dear Octopus

by Dodie Smith

$750 · Offered by Royal Books

Signed

London: William Heinemann, 1938. First UK Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: To John Evelyn Moore / with my loving thanks / for once again working / so splendidly on a play of mine / Dodie Smith / New Year 1939. Laid in is a flyer for a performance of the play at the Royal Adelph. Tipped-in photograph, ostensibly depicting a scene from the play, is loose from the binding.

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