The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Five Actss
by Maeterlinck, Maurice / Alexander Teixeira de Mattos - translator
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Small Octavo. 8vo. 241 (1) pp. previous owner inked name & date (1010) ffep, List of characters, Costumes, Very light external wear to boards. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.5" x 7.75". Green cloth with decorative blind-stamped flowers and gilt bordered title plate and gilt lettering to front board, gilt bordered title plate and gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block. DJ trimmed all around 1/4" or so. DJ slightly age toned spine with square chip to top edge spine dj, and a thin line of chipping along remaining to edge and bottom edge of same. In acetate protector. Lain-in 3x5 card note: " Copy of The Blue Bird put aside at Gotham Book Mart in NYC for the consideration of J. D. Salinger who announced he was to visit the store to purchase 2 titles by Maurice Materlinck, circa 1995. This copy of the book he rejected, but he held it in his hands! P.R." (sic).
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8483
- Title
- The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Five Actss
- Author
- Maeterlinck, Maurice / Alexander Teixeira de Mattos - translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- DRAMA BELGIUM SYMBOLIST POEMS AND PLAYS ALLEGORICAL FANTASY FOR CHILDREN
- Bookseller catalogs
- DRAMA;
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Plate
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- Spine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
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