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Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (Modern Library, #94.2)
by DUNN, Esther Cloudman (editor & introduction)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [c.1937]. Hardcover. This Modern Library edition includes an assortment of plays from the Elizabethan period: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, Shoemaker's Holiday by Dekker, Woman Killed with Kindness by Heywood, Volpone by Jonson, Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Duchess of Malfi by Webster, New Way to Pay Old Debts by Massinger, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by Ford. Edited, and with an introduction by Esther Cloudman Dunn. --- In Toledano spine 7 / brown balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine lettering & decorations / maroon topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style g / verso lists 246 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1937 (though 1932 date appears in the book). ML #94.2. --- With reading creases to spine, volume is otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly-bound. Fragile dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, chipping and small tears along edges else intact, and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 721, (6, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87068
- Title
- Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (Modern Library, #94.2)
- Author
- DUNN, Esther Cloudman (editor & introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1937]
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- 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...
- Gilt
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
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