Nicolas Bentley's Tales from Shakespeare
by BENTLEY, NICOLAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Mitchell Beazley 1972. First edition, super octavo, white cloth boards with gilt decoration, illus to front board, black lettering to spine, illus eps, 111pp, illus, VG (light tanning to board edges, light foxing to page edges, owner's name to f.e.p.) in d/w, VG (v light fading to spine, 1cm patch of surface damage to front, slight creasing to edges)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197870
- Title
- Nicolas Bentley's Tales from Shakespeare
- Author
- BENTLEY, NICOLAS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mitchell Beazley 1972
- Keywords
- modern first edition literature short stories William Shakespeare literary criticism humour
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- VG
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