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Major Barbara (The Bernard Shaw Library)
by Shaw, George Bernard
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140450181
- ISBN 13
- 9780140450187
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, 1960. Reprint . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 153 pp. Thirty-sixth printing thus. Pencil underlining and marginalia in the text. The binding is tight and square. "Definitive text.
Synopsis
In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064593
- Title
- Major Barbara (The Bernard Shaw Library)
- Author
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140450181
- ISBN 13
- 9780140450187
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Theater; Plays
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...