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Shakespeare and the Actors - The Stage Business in His Plays (1660-1905)
by Sprague, Arthur Colby
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Clean first edition in scarce dust jacket. Clean orange-brown cloth boards with unchipped clean paper label on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Beautifully penned previous owner name on front free endpaper - no other marks. Illustrated with black and white glossy plates. 1944 on both title page and copyright page, with no additional printings. 440 pages with index. Dust jacket is quite clean, not price clipped (5.00 on front inside flap), has a little wear to corners, several short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30950
- Title
- Shakespeare and the Actors - The Stage Business in His Plays (1660-1905)
- Author
- Sprague, Arthur Colby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, STAGE, SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS, ARTHUR COLBY SPRAGUE, FIRST EDITION, DUST JACKET
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays / Theater;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Copyright page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
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