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Easter (A Play in Three Acts) and Stories
by STRINDBERG, August; HOWARD, Velma Swanston (translator)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Grant Richards Ltd, 1913. Good. First UK edition. 8vo, pp. + b/w frontis of Strindberg from an etching by Zorn, plus facsimile letter from Strindberg authorising Velma Swanston Howard to undertake the translations. Olive green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, single blind rule to boards. Top edge green. Wear to extremities, pen mark to front board. Foxing to edges, front and rear, occasionally to margins. A little shaken. Else, clean. Good+.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1169
- Title
- Easter (A Play in Three Acts) and Stories
- Author
- STRINDBERG, August; HOWARD, Velma Swanston (translator)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grant Richards Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modernist Firsts;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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