The Road to the Temple

New York/Toronto: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1927, 1941). Second Edition. Hardcover. [rear hinge cracked, otherwise only lightly shelfworn; the jacket is worn and a bit faded (especially the spine), with numerous tiny edge-nicks, various creases, a small chip at the bottom of the front, and several old internal (yellowing) tape repairs]. A republication, with a new Foreword by the author, of her biography of her husband, George Cram Cook, originally published in 1926, two years after his death. Cook was probably best known as a co-founder of the Provincetown Players in 1915, which was a milestone in the development of (truncated) the American theater. The group produced the first plays of Eugene O'Neill and Edna St. Vincent Millay, among others, as well as works by Cook and Glaspell themselves. This book is largely centered around Cook's fascination with Greece, to which he was drawn "as homeland of the spirit," where he lived for the last two years of his life, and where he was buried beside the Temple of Apollo at Delphi -- his grave marked by one of the great fallen stones from the Temple. . (Inventory #: 28850)