THREE PLAYS
by Milne, A. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1925* Publisher: Chatto & Windus (First in May 1923)* Binding and cover condition: Grey-Brown cloth, Paper label to spine. Very slightly bumped & slightly rubbed to front corners, boards not sunned, VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Crisp, tight and bright. Top edge cut and coloured, fore and bottom edge rough cut and foxed, End papers clean and bright but first and last few pages foxed. No inscriptions or annotations, VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 263 pp. text. No Index. * Three plays by the creator of Winnie the Pooh:- The Great Broxopp, The Dover Road, The Truth About Blayds. Milne writes in his introduction that he prefers to see his dramatic output in printed form rather than on stage, remarking that the characters can only have their essential qualities on paper and are some how reduced by the actors perception of them. He writes a spoof review of Hamlet as a it might first have arrived on the London stage and suggests (as a critic) that he should stick to writing sonnets!! This is a nice clean and tight copy, VERY GOOD+, Apart from foxing to the fore and bottom edges and the first and last few pages A spare clean paper spine label is tipped in to the last page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3332
- Title
- THREE PLAYS
- Author
- Milne, A. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edition, 2nd. Impression.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 263
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Sunned
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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