Rutherford & Son (two volumes) by Githa Sowerby first edition 1912/13

SOWERBY, Githa. Rutherford and Son: A Play in Three Acts.
 
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1913.
Together with: New York: George H. Doran Company, 1912.
 
2 volumes, 8vo. 108 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's advertisements (UK edition); 123 pp. (US edition).
UK second impression in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; US first edition in original cloth, with the scarce original dustwrapper. UK volume with snag and small tear to head of spine, a few marks to boards, internally lightly browned but sound very good; US volume a clean, well-preserved near fine copy with a book plate to inside board in a near fine dustwrapper.
 
First US edition, in the uncommon original dustwrapper, together with the UK second impression. Sowerby's debut play, first produced at the Court Theatre, London, on 31 January 1912, where it achieved immediate success and established her reputation as a dramatist. A study of industrial and familial authority, the play centres on the domineering figure of John Rutherford and the tensions within his household. The play received critical acclaim and productions have been put on in theatres across the UK and US since. 
 
Uncommon in commerce, early or first edition copies are a rarity. The US first edition with the jacket is scarce.