A Book for all Reasons
 Priestley, J. B. DESERT HIGHWAY , William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1944,1st edn., ix, 46pp, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a play written specially for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs after the playwright had seen two sketches composed and performed by the ABCA Play Unit dramatising some of the urgent problems of the time. Set in the Syrian Desert in contemporary times with an 'interlude' between Acts 1 and 2 set in 703BC, it was first performed for ten months by an all-Army caste in the larger Garrison Theatres, all profits going back to the Army personnel for those 'extras' not otherwise available to the troops, uncommon in the original separate edition, a little rubbed at extrems., slight bow to upper board, part. erased ink price ffep., paper a little tanned, no dustwrapper, very good, (Book ref. 27419) £21.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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