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The Dark Comedy
by Styan, J.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 1199502545
- ISBN 13
- 9781199502544
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. * Date of Publication: 1962* Publisher: Cambridge University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Bright green cloth covered boards, gilt title to black spine label. Spine slightly aged. Very slight marks to boards. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour text illustrated dust wrapper, dark green and white titles to face and to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 30/-. Absolutely minimal shelf wear & marks to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: Ex school library copy with usual stamps and labels. Top edge slightly grubby. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 294 pp. text. x pp. reading list & index at rear.* Description: The development of modern comic tragedy. Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some time grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy; and critics and audience alike seem not to know quite what to make of it all. Mr Styan sets out to explain and illuminate the nature of this dark, paradoxical comedy.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9446
- Title
- The Dark Comedy
- Author
- Styan, J.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1199502545
- ISBN 13
- 9781199502544
- Publisher
- Cambridge at the University Press
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 304
- Date Published
- 1962-01-01
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