Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera in Three Acts (Signed)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. Limited edition. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. x, 175 pages. Very good in a worn dust jacket. Rubs to board extremities. Jacket has tears, significant chipping and loss to spine, with fading to front panel and spine remnants.
A comedic Prohibition entertainment set in Ancient Greece. The Preface is by "Samuel Johonson," then dead for 139 years. Copy #426 of a limited edition, signed by Owen Wister on limitation page. Several bold full page illustrations by George Howe.
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