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CALVALCADE OF COMEDY 21 Brilliant Comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward
by edited with Introductions by Louis Kronenberger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket. 1953. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 715 pages; Light blue and red hardcovers. Embossed lettering of author names on front gilt lettering on spine. Very light rubbing to the turn corners. Light fading/sunning to top edges. Binding secure. Pages are clean with very light browning. Dust jacket has light shelf wear to the top and bottom. There is small stain (quarter size) near top front/spine turn. .
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- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9128
- Title
- CALVALCADE OF COMEDY 21 Brilliant Comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward
- Author
- edited with Introductions by Louis Kronenberger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, Comedy, Theatre
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Reading Well Bookstore
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Delaware, Ohio
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- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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