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Six Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, and The Autumn Garden (Modern Library #223.2)
by HELLMAN, Lillian
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1964]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition offering the complete and unabridged texts of six plays by the American playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984). --- In Toledano spine 11 / rust cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists Modern Library titles, but no total number. Likely published c.1964 (though 1960 date appears in book). ML #223.2. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy, though with mild tanning to textblock edges (but not to the leaves themselves). Unclipped dust jacket with two 2-inch tears to lower edge, as well as an open tear near tail of spine, other small chips and tears and a reddish dampstain to verso, otherwise bright, mostly intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 546 pages .
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- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85144
- Title
- Six Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, and The Autumn Garden (Modern Library #223.2)
- 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.1964]
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 12mo
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- Good+
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Device
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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