BELASCO, DAVID — The Return of Peter Grimm

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rae, John. The Return of Peter Grimm has been novelized by the play by David Belasco. The play was also made into an opera. Peter Grimm is referred to also as the Dead Man, who comes and visits a child frequently in the course of the novel. The child is taken to doctors and so forth because it appears he is talking to himself, but rather mysteriously he is speaking to his departed friend, Peter Grimm. 344 pages, includes frontispiece. The cover has a paste-down of a woman losing herself in scented blossoms, and the faint vision of a man in the background. There are a few tiny white spots where the picture has been scratched. The rest of the binding is red cloth; there is a slight bump at the front right top corner, and the spine bottom is folded up. There is a tiny white spot on the back binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ; 12mo 7" - 7 3/4" tall; 344 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .