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Burning Bright
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Very Clean, First British Edition, 1951, Very clean John Steinbeck play in story form. Book is near Fine, brick red publisher's cloth with bright gilt title to spine, tad of wear to bottom edges, very clean, binding tight and square, interior is Fine, NO previous owner name or bookplate. Book is 8 inches in height by 5.25 inches in width, 111 pages. Jacket is Very Good Plus, colorful front panel, spine nice, light foxing to flaps, random edge and corner wear, rear panel features quotes and reviews about Steinbeck, rear panel has light foxing along edge near spine and a stain on bottom edge. Goldstone and Payne A-29b. Crisp copy, Clean and Most Presentable. Professionally shipped. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes with details of both the characters and the environment. The intention was to allow the play to be read by the non-theatrical reader while still allowing the dialogue to be lifted and performed with little adaptation by acting companies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003328
- Title
- Burning Bright
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- John Steinbeck, Steinbeck, U.K. Printings, Heinemann
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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