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Four Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine (First Modern Library Edition, ML #223.1)
by HELLMAN, Lillian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first Modern Library edition, 1942 (confirmed by listing of titles on jacket verso). A Modern Library collection of four complete and unabridged plays by Lillian Hellman. Includes an introduction by Ms. Hellman. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / faded green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style g, verso advertises 281 titles in ML catalog. ML #223.1. --- With general age-toning to leaves and a little dulling to cover gilding, otherwise a sturdy, unmarked copy. Unclipped ($.95), Fair-only dust jacket with large chips & tears to head of spine & along edges, else mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 330 pages .
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- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86998
- Title
- Four Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine (First Modern Library Edition, ML #223.1)
- Author
- HELLMAN, Lillian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Fair
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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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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