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BARRY, Philip
White Wings
French New York 1929 First First edition. Crown a little chipped, spine lettering rubbed but readable, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Hope and Edgar with love from Phil, 18 March 1929." A fantasy based on a passage in Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad, a humorous book by his friend Donald Ogden Stewart, who was also the dedicatee of this play. Hope Montgomery Scott was the glamorous Philadelphia Mainline society woman who was the basis for the Tracy Lord character in The Philadelphia Story. Hope Montgomery Scott and her husband Edgar who were lifelong friends of Philip and Ellen Barry.
- USD 350.00 > other currencies
- ordernr.: 37
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