first edition Hardcover
1915 · New York
by Stanley, Frederic Arthur
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [square and solid copy, light foxing/soiling to page edges, slight bump to bottom rear corner, one-time owner's name and (presumably) date of purchase inked on front endpaper]. (6 B&W photographs) Uncommon novel, a novelization of the play of the same name, a farce about a young fellow who's mistaken for a chaperon at a fashionable London restaurant, and decides to play along and adopt the role. The play a respectable New York run (104 performances) after an August 1914 opening, and then went on the road (I've found reviews of productions in Philadelphia, (truncated)