Gross, Samuel Eberly

The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy [with Original photograph]

Privately Printed, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #0318612

With an original portrait photograph of author Gross laid in at rear; signed in pencil on verso (though probably not by Gross). A good copy in the original green cloth stamped in gilt (Some wear and stains to cloth; some wear to a few leaves). 168+[ 1] First edition of the 5-act play, and the basis of the famous plagiarism suit against Edmond Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. One of 250 numbered copies (the entire edition), printed under the direction of Stone and Kimball, September 1896. See Kramer, pp153-54, 361.

Price: $150.00