All For Hecuba. An Irish Theatrical Autobiography. London: Methuen, 1947. Second Edition. Pp vi, 355. Publisher’s pale green cloth boards, title lettered in red to spine. Cloth faded, contents page in good condition.

This copy with a typed letter on Gate Theatre headed note paper, Signed by MacLiammoir.

All For Hecub combines autobiography with a biography of theatre in post-civil-war Ireland. From his days as a child actor in London (sharing the stage with Noel Coward) to founding the Gate Theatre in Dublin with his partner Hilton Edwards & their undertaking ambitious tours to pre-war Europe.

Illustrated with fifteen gravure plates.