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CANDIDA: A PLEASANT PLAY By BERNARD SHAW 1913
by BERNARD SHAW
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
NY: BRENTANO'S, 1913 Book. Good. Hardcover. TITLE: CANDIDA: A PLEASANT PLAY By BERNARD SHAW 1913 AUTHOR: BERNARD SHAW PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: BRENTANO'S, NY 1898, 1905 on copyright page and 1913 on title page EDITION: Reprint Edition assumed CATEGORY: Plays, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback without COLOR: GREEN CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in rough condition; there are chips all along the edges; the spine cover is completely missing (see photo); there is rubbing along all the edges. There is a really small sized crack to the edge of the last couple of pages near the bottom. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 79 pages. Fair/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Plays. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 16 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 008101.
Synopsis
From the book:A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong in comfortable, prosperous middle class life; wide-streeted, myriad-populated; well-served with ugly iron urinals, Radical clubs, tram lines, and a perpetual stream of yellow cars; enjoying in its main thoroughfares the luxury of grass-grown "front gardens," untrodden by the foot of man save as to the path from the gate to the hall door; but blighted by an intolerable monotony of miles and miles of graceless, characterless brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, quite accustomed to the place, and mostly plodding about somebody else's work, which they would not do if they themselves could help it. The little energy and eagerness that crop up show themselves in cockney cupidity and business "push." Even the policemen and the chapels are not infrequent enough to break the monotony.The sun is shining cheerfully; there is no fog; and though the smoke effectually prevents anything, whether faces and hands or bricks and mortar, from looking fresh and clean, it is not hanging heavily enough to trouble a Londoner.
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- Bookseller
- ViewFair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008101
- Title
- CANDIDA: A PLEASANT PLAY By BERNARD SHAW 1913
- Author
- BERNARD SHAW
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- BRENTANO'S
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- ACTIVE: 72
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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