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SHAKESPEARE: King Henry IV, Part I / Twelfth Night / The Tragedy of King Lear / The Tempest (Vol. I, Scribner's Shakespeare Series)
by SHAKESPEARE, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1929. Hard Cover. A collection of the first part of King Henry IV and three other enduring plays by Shakespeare, in a compact Scribner's edition. Per the preface, the plays are presented in authoritative text, in readable form and with sufficient apparatus for the use of the student. Edited and with introductions by Thomas Marc Parrott and Robert Stockdale Telfer. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt to cover and spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- Exposure to dampness has resulted in rippling to leaves. With soiling to cloth, foxing to textblock edges, significant loss of cover and spine gilding, discreet pencilings in a few locations, and prior owner's signature & glue remnants to front free endpaper; else a tightly-bound, sound, copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall) ; (8), 485 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41426
- Title
- SHAKESPEARE: King Henry IV, Part I / Twelfth Night / The Tragedy of King Lear / The Tempest (Vol. I, Scribner's Shakespeare Series)
- Author
- SHAKESPEARE, William
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Leaves
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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- 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
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