[Rarebooks] FS: Eva La Gallienne's Copy of Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE

[Charles Agvent]

IBSEN, Henrik. A DOLL'S HOUSE. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. First 
British Edition. Gilt-lettered vellum. Translated from the Norwegian by 
William Archer. Copy #8 of only 115 SIGNED by the publisher. Lesbian 
actress/writer Eva La Gallienne's copy with her bookplate on the front 
pastedown which incorporates on the border two lines of dialogue from 
Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER: "Solness: Homes for human beings. Hilda: But 
homes with high towers and pinnacles upon them." Also Inscribed to La 
Gallienne on the front endpaper by a friend: "In appreciation of 
her/admirable Ibsen performances--/from her admiring and loving 
friend/Elsa Morner--/Chicago, May 1926." The American actress La 
Gallienne appeared in several Ibsen productions, including A DOLL'S 
HOUSE, which she also translated. In 1925, when she failed to persuade a 
commercial management company to present her in Ibsen's THE MASTER 
BUILDER, she decided to produce and direct it herself, helping give 
birth to the Civic Repertory Theatre. Scattered marginal foxing; soiling 
to covers. Very Good or better. (#020504) $1,500

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