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The Complaisant Lover - A Play
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some rubbing and foxing at edges ). Blue boards and spine with clean gilt titli
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1959. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some rubbing and foxing at edges ). Blue boards and spine with clean gilt titling and blind pressed Heinemann logo on back board. Text block firm, pages unmarked with only a little foxing, mainly endpapers. Owner's neat inscription ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Consisting of two acts (each of two scenes), the play revolves around an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, the book seller friend of her husband, Victor. The play takes place in the Rhodes family home and an Amsterdam guesthouse. It's first production was produced by John Gielgud in June 1959, with a cast including Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC81707
- Title
- The Complaisant Lover - A Play
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some rubbing and foxing at edges ). Blue boards and spine with clean gilt titli
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 78
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, drama, Greene
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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....
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