Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat
by Lord Dunsany
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1916. Hardcover. G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the collection of Henry and Nina Cornell (nee Bayard), descendants of Ezra Cornell, Peter Stuyvesant, and the prominent Bayard family of Pittsburgh, PA. Burgundy cloth with dulled/darkened gilt lettering. Minor edgewear and soil, and slightly bumped spine ends and corners. Binding a little tender, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Not illustrated. Prev owner name "Shaun Bayard" to ffep with brief gift inscription in pencil. Brentano's bookshop label to rear pastedown. No stamps. Not ex-library. 116 pages.
Synopsis
Five Plays is the eighth book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by Grant Richards in February, 1914, and has been reprinted a number of times since. The book is actually Dunsany's sixth major work, two of his preceding books having been chapbooks or selections from his other works.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001669
- Title
- Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat
- Author
- Lord Dunsany
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+ (Good Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1916
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- G+
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- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...