Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1979. Collector's Edition. Fine in full bright red leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A quarto measuring 11 3/16" tall by 6 1/2" deep containing 215 pages of text. Two plays by George Bernard Shaw titled: The Devil's Disciple and Caesar and Cleopatra. Illustrated with drawings by George Him. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the first free end page; otherwise, a beautiful, tight, clean copy with no dates, notations or inscriptions.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB22799
Title: Two Plays For Puritans
Author: Shaw, George Bernard
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Collector's Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Easton Press
Place of Publication: Norwalk, Conn.
Date Published: 1979

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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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...
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....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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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...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...