Continental Drama: Calderon - Corneille - Racine - Molière - Lessing - Schiller (#26 in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics")
by ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: P. F. Collier & Son. Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. A selection of six plays by European authors and rendered into English by various translators. The 26th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of Molière in audience with Louis XIV. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With a bruise and torn cloth to back cover edge, sunning to spine and chafing to cloth at head of spine; otherwise an intact, firm, unmarked copy.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 474 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80700
- Title
- Continental Drama: Calderon - Corneille - Racine - Molière - Lessing - Schiller (#26 in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics")
- Author
- ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
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