Put Money in Thy Purse. The Diary of the Film of Othello. With a Preface by Orson Welles. London: Methuen, 1952. First Edition. Presentation Copy From the Author in Irish to Irish Historian Máire De Paor. Pp, 258. Good copy in cloth covers. Spine very slightly bumped, with some very minor dust soiling to pages.

Illustrated with plates.

The diary kept by Micheál MacLiammoir during the time he played Iago in Orson Wells’ 1952 film ‘Othello’ in which Wells played the Moor.

As a study of Welles as director, actor and entrepreneur, its insights are unparalleled.