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7 playscripts: Oliver Cromwell, Mary Stuart, Robert Burns, Bird in hand, Laying the devil, A man's house and Garibaldi
by Drinkwater, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sidgwick & Jackson. Good with no dust jacket. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Seven clean hardbacks tightly bound in red cloth, cloth is faded and rubbed at edges, corners bumped. Oliver: endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. Mary Stuart: front cover very faded, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. Robert Burns (1925): front edges of boards dented, small loss to spine label, endpapers tanned, foxing on some internal pages, annotation on half title. Bird in Hand (1928): spine label worn, back cover has splash marks, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. Laying the devil (1933): front cover spotted and marked, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. A man's house (1934): endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. Garibaldi (1936): page edges foxed, neat name and date (Sept 1936) on front endpaper. Bird in hand is a second impression, other 6 are first editions, first printings .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44076
- Title
- 7 playscripts: Oliver Cromwell, Mary Stuart, Robert Burns, Bird in hand, Laying the devil, A man's house and Garibaldi
- Author
- Drinkwater, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Playscript, Drama, Theatre
- Bookseller catalogs
- Stage & screen;
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
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