1929 The Searcher: A War Play

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Limited to one thousand copies for sale in the United Kingdom. Illustrated with nine wood engravings, as stated in text (dust wrapper reads "with twelve wood-engravings"). Collated complete. Set in an Evacuation Hospital near the front during the First World War, but on which side we are not told. Written by Velona Pilcher, an American writer and member of the Stanford Women's Relief Unit, working at the AEF hospital facility at Bazeilles-sur-Meuse. Illustrated by Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton, a major figure in the English wood-engraving revival in the twentieth century.