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AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED:" A COMEDY OF THE NEW WOMAN
by Williams, Jesse Lynch
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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San Pedro, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 242p. Leaves torn along fore edges from a clumsy opening, endpapers toned and foxed, cover rubbed and stained with spine cloth foxed and torn on top and bottom. Awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918 as Why Marry? for its satirical portrayal of marriage and love and for its delivery of realism to American theater. Through his short stories and other writings, Williams was a strong advocate for women's rights in the early 20th century. (8-1/8"x5-1/2")
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Details
- Bookseller
- Champ & Mabel Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H13627
- Title
- AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED:" A COMEDY OF THE NEW WOMAN
- Author
- Williams, Jesse Lynch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Theater Drama Feminist Feminists Women Comedies Social Conditions Pulitzer Prize
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Champ & Mabel Collectibles
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Gayle Williamson is the owner of Champ & Mabel Collectibles, which is registered with the State of California and City of Los Angeles and permitted by the Los Angeles Police Commission (LAPD). Champ & Mabel Collectibles can be contacted by mail at: P.O. Box 741, San Pedro, California 90733; by phone at 310.833.8629 (landline); by email at info@champandmabel.com.
About the Seller
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Biblio member since 2007
San Pedro, California
About Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Champ & Mabel Collectibles has been selling secondhand books online since 1998.
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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