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Four Sacred Plays
by Sayers, Dorothy L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, with unclipped d/j in protective wrapper (a few small chips at top, inner staining from boards), blue boards clean, g
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1948. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, with unclipped d/j in protective wrapper (a few small chips at top, inner staining from boards), blue boards clean, gilt titling on spine a little rubbed, pages clean and unmarked, binding reasonably tight. Some foxing on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC91397
- Title
- Four Sacred Plays
- Author
- Sayers, Dorothy L
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, with unclipped d/j in protective wrapper (a few small chips at top, inner staining from boards), blue boards clean, g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 352
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, drama, theology, DLSayers, Inklings
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Biblio member since 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
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