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Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (Modern Library No. 6)
by IBSEN, HENRIK; EVA LE GALLIENNE
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good unclipped jacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Jacket lightly edgeworn & chipped, with amateurish tape rep
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1957. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good unclipped jacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Jacket lightly edgeworn & chipped, with amateurish tape repair to foot of spine panel.. 12mo. 4.875 x 7.25 in. 510 pp. ML Binding Style 8 in light grey cloth, top edge sumikuro, with Kent endpapers; in black pictorial dust jacket printed, with $1.65 price & 379 titles advertised on verso. Translated with an introduction by English-American director, producer, actress & author EVA LE GALLIENNE. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Inscribed on title page by Eva Le Gallienne, 'to dear "Duck" Davidson -- with love'. Included is a handwritten letter with envelope to Miss Louise Davidson from Eva Le Gallienne, Connecticut, 1955; in which Shakespeare appears -- e.g., 'I so agree with you that Shakespeare wrote for men -- but then one should remember that this was quite literally true -- since no women played in the English Theatre at that time.' Louise Davidson worked with Le Galliene's theatre company. An interesting association copy & ephemeral piece of 20th-c. American theatre. Andes 6.4.1H. Toledano 6.5.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 641
- Title
- Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (Modern Library No. 6)
- Author
- IBSEN, HENRIK; EVA LE GALLIENNE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good unclipped jacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Jacket lightly edgeworn & chipped, with amateurish tape rep
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Modern Library Edition
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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