Thomas Sturge Moore — Absalom, a Chronicle Play in Three Acts

London, At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this play by Thomas Sturge Moore, in a glassine dust wrapper. This play is set in Jerusalem, with the King of Israel a primary character along with his sons Absalom and Solomon.Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944) was a British poet and author. His other works included poetry collections such as 'The Sea is Kind', 'The Vinedresser and Other Poems', 'Poems', and 'Nine Poems', and his plays  'Aphrodite Against Artemis', 'A Sicilian Idyll and Judith: A Conflict', 'Tragic Mothers: Medea, Niobe and Tyrfing&apos. In an early glassine dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with a glassine dust wrapper. Externally very smart, slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper has a fair bit of loss to the spine, with an inch lost to the tail and a large gap of two and a half inches to in the centre; there is a small tear to the tail of the front cover but it is otherwise well-preserved. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.