This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...he swore Cambyses' lust should cool upon your blood--Your blood, proud Memnon! for he vows to send Your foster-daughter--Memn. What! my girl to Persia! (Enter Moeris and Guard C.) Ses. Look! Moer. Priest! i' the name of Egypt, I arrest thee.--Seize him! Guards seize Memnon; a struggle; Nitetis screams ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...he swore Cambyses' lust should cool upon your blood--Your blood, proud Memnon! for he vows to send Your foster-daughter--Memn. What! my girl to Persia! (Enter Moeris and Guard C.) Ses. Look! Moer. Priest! i' the name of Egypt, I arrest thee.--Seize him! Guards seize Memnon; a struggle; Nitetis screams R, and rushes out followed by two guards, Meneptah /sethos. Meneph. Sweetest lady, there's no fear--Nitet. Father! father! Memn. Hold off your hands! (struggling with guards.) Seth. Traitor! we have thee! Ses. (to Sethos.) Traitor, thou liest! Seth. (to guards.) Seize yonder girl! Nitet. Oh, God! Memn. Stand back! MemnOn flings the guards from him catches up a sword from table R and stands across the body of Nitetis, who faints R C. Sesak rushes between Memnon and guards, with lifted arms, as protecting Memnon; and Asseth, with a spear caught from one of the fallen guards, threathens Meneptah. Tableau. ACT III SCENE I The royal gardens at Sais. On left, a wing of the palace colonnade. approached by steps. In perspective, the city and Nile. On right, upon a lofty dais, the judgment seat, canopied and guarded by sphynxes. Near L C, a seat. Time--sunset, followed by moonlight. OW like a dolphin dies this summer sun, Stranded f romhis bright sea.--Majes-tic night! These infinite arches, of one sapphire cut--O what a temple!--Ha! Oscorchon! quick! How says the king? (Enter Osorchon L U E.) Osor. Well pleased. Ses. Why, whip him then, Who whines impossibility!--sh!--go! (points L U E, Osorchon withdraws!) Well pleased! ha, ha! this is my night indeed. Now do I bud and blossom--crabbed I, Sterile to greatness, even I do bud, And climb, and hang my tendrils there Where pipe these callow falcons, ha, ha, ha!--They come.--Now mark my rise or...
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Add this copy of Memnon: a Tragedy in Five Acts to cart. $32.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Memnon: a Tragedy in Five Acts to cart. $61.89, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Memnon: a Tragedy in Five Acts to cart. $150.00, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by Press of Gilliss Brothers.
Edition:
1884, Press of Gilliss Brothers
Hardcover
Details:
Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
Press of Gilliss Brothers
Published:
1884
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12504060224
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A few spots and light staining to text; one short marginal tear; edges of boards and extremities of spine worn. 39 pp. Folio,
Add this copy of Memnon: a Tragedy in Five Acts (Inscribed Copy, 1881) to cart. $398.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1881 by 'Printed, Not Published'.
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Very Good. First edition, 1881, almost certainly published in Chicago, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to a Miss Alice Watson, with additional holograph notes by author to text. 8vo, half calf and marbled boards, red spine label, 171 (2) pp, light rubbing to leather, very good. Rare on the market. The author, born in New Mexico, briefly engaged in the Indian Wars, settled first in New Orleans, then Chicago, and finally New York. This play represents his first real book (there was a 4 pp. book of poetry published in New Orleans in 1878, and a pamphlet on fly fishing published in 1880); this play was finally staged in 1884 and was not a success. Upon moving to New York, he continued to write plays and had modest success as a humorist and journalist. His most famous play, The Butterflies, was successfully staged in 1894, starring Maude Adams. This printing of the play is rare, with 9 copies in OCLC.
