1961 Three Plays of Racine

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First Edition, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

A collection of three plays by the great French playwright Jean-Baptiste Racine, translated by the American poet and editor George Dillon.

Inscribed by the author to Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-1975) to the front free end paper, dated 1962. Pearson was an American academic who worked as a counterintelligence agent during the Second World War.

A collection of three plays by the great French playwright Jean-Baptiste Racine, translated by the American poet and editor George Dillon. These three plays comprise the three tragedies Phaedra, Britannicus, and Andromache, with a detailed introduction and critical notes.