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The Plough and the Stars: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by O'CASEY, Sean
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1926. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, in cream dust jacket printed in green, green topstain; viii,136,[1],4pp.; portrait frontispiece. Jacket rather delicate with chipping and a few short closed tear to extremities, a bit of finger soil, spine darkened with three tiny damp spots; a hint of wear to boards and cloth spine ends, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20581
- Title
- The Plough and the Stars: A Tragedy in Four Acts
- Author
- O'CASEY, Sean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ireland; Modern Drama;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
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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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...