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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935 From the Introduction, "My intention in these pages which formed a series of lectures designed for, and delivered to, a French audience, is to examine certain English writers who, since the opening of the century, have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." Translated by Hamish Miles. Subjects are: Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Katherine Mansfield. Maroon cloth with gold title on spine, blind embossed emblem on front. Spine and part of rear board are severely faded. Head and tail of spine are bumped as are bottom corners. Cloth is dusty. Numbers stamped on first paste-down. Binding is a little loose and pages are slightly yellowed. Includes portrait of each author discussed. 345p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Warner Books, 193 Dust jacket shows a small amount of shelfwear, now protected in brodart. Black cloth spine with red metalic title, green boards. Head of spine is slightly bumped. 372p.. First Edition. Cloth and Board. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1931 Signed by illustrator, Anton Otto Fischer, and William McFee who wrote the foreword. Letter of Provenance included. Anton Otto Fischer, was a long time cover artist and illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post. He was most well known for his maritime paintings. Fischer illustrated such books as Twenty-thousand Leagues under the Sea, Treasure Island, The Mutineers and many others. Apparently Fischer was in the habit of spelling his name both with and without the 'c'. His signature is dated N.Y. 1933, and is located on the illustrated endpaper. William McFee was the son of an English sea captain and spent his early life as a marine engineer. After WWI he settled in the US. He was a prolific writer of sea stories, McFee also wrote reviews for The New York Sun and The New York Times. McFee signature is located on the reverse of the frontispiece. Black cloth with gold titles and decorations. The title on the spine is very faded, but the front board is very bright. There is also a very large paste-on illustration on the front. The illustration is in very good condition. Wear to all edges, corners worn through. Head of spine is fraying, as are top corners. Binding is a little loose. Color illustrated endpapers. Introduction by William McFee and notes by M. Dodge Holmes, PhD. author of Joan of Arc. Thirteen full page color illustrations on glossy paper, including frontis. Limited numbered edition, 21 of 188 copies (the number 234 is crossed out and the no. 188 is written in). The cover illustration and cloth color are different from the other volumes as well. 414p.. Signed by Illustrator. Unknown. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Anton Otto Fischer. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970 Auhor discusses patriarchal bias in culture and how it is reflected in literature. White dust jacket has yelllowed. A few small chips and tears at edges, some soiling. Jacket now in brodart. Black cloth with bright silver title. Cloth shows some signs of handling, as black do. Page edges yellowing. Interior is clean. 393p. including index.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936 Stated printing June 1936. Grey cloth with blue titles and decorations to spine and front board. Head of spine is rubbed; tail has small tears and is worn through in several areas. Front top corner is bumped. Spine is slightly darkened; edges of boards are slightly discolored. Endpapers are soiled and scuffed. Pages are yellowing. 1037p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919 Page 76 is not numbered, Burroughs, imperfect. Page 100.1 Sty not Styx. Page 163.1 footfalls. Intermediary state. Brown cloth with black titles. Wear to all edges, particularly at spine. Some soiling to cloth. Binding loose. Boards very slightly bowed. Nice bookplate from previous owner on front pastedown. Pages yellowing. 289p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002 An Easy Rawlins Novel. Jacket has a tiny bit of wear to corners at front flap. Some scuffing on back. Jacket is now in brodart. Black cloth spine with copper title, pumpkin colored boards with blind embossed publisher's logo. There are two very small closed tears at the top of the spine. Book is clean and tight. 311p.. First Edition. Cloth and Board. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1940 Vintage paperback, perma-gloss cover. Classic dog story. Laminate is seperating at edges, particularly corners. Book is bright, clean and solid - never been read. Points are bumped. Red endpapers and page edges. Interior is clean and bright. 281p.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. PocketBook. more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Printed by Knickerbocker Press. No year given for publication but title page states seventh edition. Originally printed and sold in London 1718. Red cloth with gold embossing to spine. Spine color faded, gold no longer bright. Boards slightly bowed. Soiled on back cover. Foxing to edges and endpapers. Scarce to find in any condition. Seventh. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Random House, 1990 A novel of sibling rivalry by the author of Hot Flashes. Hot pink dust jacket now protected in brodart. Black cloth spine with pink metalic title, blue boards with pink initials on front. Book is near fine excepet for slight bumping to bottom front corner and head of spine. 270p.. First Edition. Cloth and Board. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Light beige cloth with green titles on spine and front board, also illustration of boy with fawn. Cloth is moderately soiled, darkening to gutters. Top corners slightly soft. Head and tail of spine slightly bruised. Endpapers yellowed, text block is slightly yellowing but otherwise clean. Lovely black and white illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. 428p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Signed by the Author. Twentieth Anniversary Limited Edition. Black slipcase, gold dust jacket. . Signed by Author. 20th Anniversary Limited Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1941 Vintage paperback, perma-gloss covers. Collection of short stories. Laminate is seperating at upper corner of rear cover. Head and tail of spine have a few tiny chips. Book is clean, bright and solid. Red endpapers and page edges. 318p.+. Ninth Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. PocketBook. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1940 Vintage paperback. Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. Bright, solid copy. Perma-Gloss covers, some separation of laminate at edges. Slight soiling to rear cover, also a few small creases. Red page edges and endpapers. Upper corner is moderately bumped. 297p. +. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. PocketBook. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1963 Edited by Tucker Brooke and William Lyon Phelps. Includes text, hitory, sources, notes, and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimile of a 1608 copy of 'King Lear'. Clean inside and out. Unread 202p.. Eighth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Robert T. Peterson. Includes text, notes, reading suggestions and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Clean inside and out. Unread 163p.. Fourth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1966 Edited by Eugene M. Waith. Includes text, sources and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Slight indentation to top edge of boards. Clean inside and out. Unread 138p.. Eighth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1960 Edited by Wilbur L. Cross and Tucker Brooke. Includes text, sources, Shakespeare's revisions, history, reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Small open tear to cloth at top of front board. Slight indentation to head of spine. Includes facsimile of frontispiece from 1709 edition. Clean inside and out. Unread 153p.. Third. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Peter G. Phialas. Includes text, notes, sources and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Slight indentation to top edge of boards. Clean inside and out. 171p.. Fifth. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1961 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes text, notes, map, appendixes and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles on spine and front cover. Spine is only slightly darkend. Small smudge at top page edge. Book is unread. 160p.. Third. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes text, sources, history ,reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimile of title page from a 1600 copy. Clean inside and out. 138p.. Eighth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1918 Edited by Frederick E. Pierce. Includes text, notes, sources, history, reading suggestions and glossary. Facsimile of the first page of the earliest printed edition of 'The Winter's Tale". Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Unread 143p.. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1955 Edited by David Horne. Includes text, sources, notes, and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Clean inside and out. Unread 105p.. Revised. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1923 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes text, notes, sources, history, reading suggestions and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Unread 166p.. First Thus. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1961 Edited by R. J. Dorius. Includes text, sources, notes, and reading suggestions. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Clean inside and out. Unread 166p.. Third. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1959 Edited by John M. Berdan and Tucker Brooke. Includes text, notes, sources, history and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimile of portrait of Henry the Eighth from the Elizabethan Club. Spine is slightly faded. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 166p.. Second. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1966 Edited by Karl Young. Includes text, notes, sources, history and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Title on spine is lightly rubbed. Includes facsimilie of title page from Montemayor's 'Diana'. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 105p.. Third Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Tucker Brooke and Lawrence Mason. Includes text, notes, sources, history and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimile of title page from Elizabethan Club copy. Spine is slightly darkened. Binding tight, clean inside and out. 188p.. Eleventh Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Robert Dudley French. Includes text, notes, sources, history and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of frontispiece from 1709 edition. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 96p.. Fourth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Edward Bliss Reed. Includes text, notes, the sonnet and Elizabethan sonneteers, and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of title page from The Elizabethan Club copy of the firt quarto, 1609. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 107p.. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1954 Edited by Davis Harding. Includes text, notes, sources, and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 131p.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Samuel B. Hemingway. Includes text, notes, sources and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of title page from Elizabbethan Club copy of only early quarto edition. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 160p.. Sixth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1966 Edited by Stanley T. Williams. Includes text, notes, sources and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of Dramatis Personae as given in the original edition, 1623. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 141p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Thomas G. Bergin. Includes text, notes, sources and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 125p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Arthur E. Case. Includes text, sources, history ,reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes reproduction of title page from Elizabethan Club copy. Clean inside and out. 140p.. Third. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1957 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes text, notes, sources, history, reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimile of title page of Nahum Tate's version of Coriolanus. Spine is slightly discolored. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 182p.. Sixth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1926 Edited by A. M. Witherspoon. Includes text, notes, sources, history Ballad of Titus Andronicus, glossary and reading list. Black and white frontispiece. Blue cloth with gold titles. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 156p.. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Willard Highley Durham. Includes text, notes, sources, history and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of title page of genuine 1600 copy. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 96p.. Ninth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1947 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes Biographical Facts, Documents Mentioning William Shakespeare which are either spurious or relating to a nameesake of the poet, the chief contemporary allusions to Shakespeare's plays, the printing of Shakespeare's Works, chronological order, metrical development, theatres, personality . Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of deposition given by Shakespeare as witness in the Belott-Mountjoy suit of 1612 . Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 177p.. Third Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Stanley T. Williams. Includes text, notes, sources, reading suggestions and glossary. Includes facsimile of the title page of a play which was the bases for Shakespeare's play. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few small scuffs to cloth. Binding tight, clean inside and out. 144p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Alfred R. Bellinger. Includes text, sources, history, notes, reading suggestions and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly faded, 'T' shaped light fade lines on rear board. Facsimile of title page of 1609 copy of 'Pericles'. Clean inside and out. Unread 139p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Tucker Brooke and Samuel B. Hemingway. Includes text, notes, sources. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes map of principal towns, rivers, etc. mentioned in the play. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 169p.. Fifth. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1957 Edited by Lawrence Mason. Includes text, sources, history, notes, reading suggestions and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Clean inside and out. Unread 129p.. Tenth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1961 Edited by Samuel B. Hemingway. Includes text, notes, sources, history and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of frontispiece from 1709 edition. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. Last few pages are roughly cut at lower edge. 166p.. Second. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1922 Edited by George Van Santvoord. Includes text, sources, history, reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes reproduction of 'Bird's -eye View of Windsor Castle' executed for James the I in 1607. Clean inside and out. 134p.. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Jackson J. Campbell. Includes text, notes, and reading suggestions. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few small scuffs to cloth. Tail of spine is bumped. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 169p.. Third Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by Jack R. Crawford. Includes text, sources, history, reading list and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. Slight indentation to head of spine. Includes black and white frontispiece. Clean inside and out. Unread 207p.. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1966 Edited by Albert Feuillerat. Includes text, notes, sources, history and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Includes facsimilie of title page of rare second edition of 'Venus and Adonis'. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. Small ding to top edge of boards. 198p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1923 Edited by Tucker Brooke. Includes text, notes, sources, history, reading suggestions and glossary. Blue cloth with gold titles. A few scuffs to cloth. Spine is only slightly darkened. Table of Contents paege has small dogear. Unread 166p.. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1965 Edited by S. C. Burchell. Includes text, notes, sources, and reading list. Blue cloth with gold titles. Spine is slightly discolored. Binding tight, unread, clean inside and out. 121p.. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Yale Shakespeare. more information

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