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Four Plays: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
by O'NEILL, Eugene
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. A deluxe Franklin Library leatherbound edition presenting four plays by the acclaimed American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Includes: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and A Touch of the Poet. With illustrations by Fred Otnes. Issued as an entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges (AEG) all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers, with brown silk moire endpapers and matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine, gift-worthy copy, though with a scratch to cloth at front free endpaper, very slight sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, tightly-bound and probably not previously read. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); [8], 531 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87931
- Title
- Four Plays: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
- Author
- O'NEILL, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1979
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
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