Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural: Seven Plays Including The Girl in the Coffin
by DREISER, Theodore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Lane Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. A first edition of this copy of a collection of seven plays by Theodore Dreiser. With tipped-in 4 pg. addendum at rear, "The Anaesthetic Revelation". --- In green paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth with paper title label affixed to spine. Deckled fore- and bottom edges, green endpapers. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With inked presentation remarks to front free endpaper, 2.5-inch tear to leaf near front of volume. With some cover and spine soiling, darkening to spine label, and loosened front hinge, else a sound, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 228, 4 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70082
- Title
- Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural: Seven Plays Including The Girl in the Coffin
- Author
- DREISER, Theodore
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
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