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Johnson Over Jordan - The Play and All About It: An Essay
by Priestley, J B
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: William Heinemann, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x, 144pp, 6 black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Top text block edge dusty; out edge just starting to fox. Blue endpaper tanning. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, small amounts of loss, severe chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Priestley has succeeded in conveying to the reader, mainly by added descriptive passages, all that he would have seen at an actual performance at the theatre, and finally added an essay about the writing of the play, of its genesis, of the hazards of its production, critical reception and run at two London theatres. Includes examples of the memorable masks designed by Elizabeth Haffenden.
Synopsis
Oberon Modern Plays
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010074
- Title
- Johnson Over Jordan - The Play and All About It: An Essay
- Author
- Priestley, J B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Scripts, Plays
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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