Jane Bowles — In the Summer House
New York, Random House, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Jane Bowles' popular play about a mother and daughter and their fraught relationship. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.'In the Summer House' is a play set on the border between Mexico and California in the 1940s, following the powerful yet suffocating relationship between a mother and daughter.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.By Jane Bowles. This was her only full-length play, and we met with incredible success. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light edge wear and handling marks to the dust wrapper. Spine is age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good.
