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Four Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine (Modern Library #223.1)
by HELLMAN, Lillian
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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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 Good dust jacket. [c.1943]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting 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 / dark topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 291 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1943 (though 1942 date appears in book). ML #223.1. --- With general age-toning to leaves, prior owner's sticker to front paste-down, otherwise a sturdy, stable copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($0.95) with 10 cm. tear to spine, other chips, tears and creases but remaining mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 330 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88409
- Title
- Four Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine (Modern Library #223.1)
- Author
- HELLMAN, Lillian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1943]
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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