America's First Hamlet
by Overmyer, Grace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: New York University Press, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, gray cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. Notes, Bibliography, Index. First edition. The first American to play Hamlet on the British stage, John Howard Payne was also suitor to Mary Shelley, a playwright of some renown and impassioned advocate for justice for the Cherokee Indians. No previous ownership marks. Book shows light foxing to margins of title-page and frontis, as well as some dust-spotting to top edge and fore-edge. Dust-jacket shows no tears or chips and is slightly dusty with age. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017418
- Title
- America's First Hamlet
- Author
- Overmyer, Grace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Biography, American Thespians
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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