Wings Over Europe. A Dramatic Extravaganza on a Pressing Theme.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Octavo, original patterned red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket, pp xv, 122. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, o/w clean. Near-fine condition in very good d.j.
First English edition. Wings over Erope was originally a 1928 Broadway play written by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne. It was a hit and was then staged in London in 1932. A two page Author's note appears in this edition for the first time. The play centres on young British genius Francis Lightfoot who has discovered how to make terrible bombs using the atom. He's soon dismayed by the greed and militarism of the British cabinet members. Robert Nichols was an English writer, known as a war poet of the First World War. Item #103021
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