Thomas Bailey Aldrich MERCEDES: A Drama in and similar items

MERCEDES: A Drama in Two Acts by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. First separate edition, revised from its appearance in MERCEDES, AND LATER LYRICS (1884). Tiny inked "45" to copyright page, else a sharp, clean, near fine copy in blue binding with gilt titles, decoration; no dust jacket. Tipped into the page facing the title-page is a vintage photo of the doorway to Aldrich's home in Boston. The poet's drama of the tragic love between a French soldier and a Spanish peasant, set in 1810; in the revised version, as performed at Palmer's Theatre with Maurice Barrymore and Julia Arthur. The play was first published in The Century Magazine in July 1884. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!