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Dear Octopus; a comedy in three acts / by Dodie Smith.

LIBRA - Special PR6037.M38 D4 1938
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Dodie, 1896-1990.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama.
Penn Provenance:
Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Smith, Dodie, 1896-1990 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Manufacture:
Kingswood, Surrey : Printed in Great Britain at The Windmill Press.
Place of Publication:
London : William Heinemann Ltd., [1938]
Notes:
With half-title.
"First published 1938."
"'Dear Octopus' was first produced in London on September 14th, 1938, at the Queen's Theatre ..."
Price from dust-jacket: 5s. net.
Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
Culture Class Collection inscribed to Maurice Speiser with thanks for arranging her own wedding day from Dodie Smith 21.2.39.
OCLC:
2664638

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