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Four Plays By Bernard Shaw ('Candida', 'Ceasar and Cleopatra', 'Pygmalion' and 'Heartbreak House') (Modern Library #19.3)
by SHAW, Bernard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1967-68][c.1958]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting four of the best plays by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). Includes his 'Candida', 'Ceasar and Cleopatra', 'Pygmalion' and 'Heartbreak House'. The plays are unabridged, and with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger; each with a preface by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / faded black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1953 date appears in book). ML #19.3. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound and clean but with prior owner's signature to verso of front free endpaper, chafing to cloth at head of spine and with faint scratch to front cover. Price-clipped dust jacket with small tear, chipping and rubbing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xii, 473 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85580
- Title
- Four Plays By Bernard Shaw ('Candida', 'Ceasar and Cleopatra', 'Pygmalion' and 'Heartbreak House') (Modern Library #19.3)
- Author
- SHAW, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1967-68][c.1958]
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Verso
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- Good+
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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