Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve

First edition, first impression.  viii, 80pp, with tissue-guarded frontipiece and three further monochrome plate illustrations, all after Goya.  Green publisher’s cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine and gilt toolwork decorations.  Bevelled edges.  12mo.  Cloth a little rubbed at spine ends, slightly so on corners.  Previous owner’s pencil inscription on front paste down; some toning on free endpapers else internally neat, clean and tight.  Small newspaper clipping with an article about Noyes loosely laid in.

A hard-hitting and unsubtle one-act play amounting to an anti-war drama.  One of the grimmest and realist pieces of drama produced on the London stage – it was first performed at the London Apollo in 1913 – darkly foreshadowing the horrors of the first world war.