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The Norton Shakespeare, Based On the Oxford Edition
by William Shakespeare
"Based on the Oxford edition."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 3381-3407) and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 3381-3407) and indexes.
Mommie Dearest
by Christina Crawford
Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. The book was published in 1978. The book depicts Christina's childhood and her relationship with her mother.
Playwrites Books & Ephemera
King Lear
by Shakespeare, William; Harbage, Alfred
Penguin Classics. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Mass Market. 0140714146 . Mass Market Paperback in very good condition. Squared, tightly bound with an unmakred text. The previous owner's name is written on the front free end paper. This copy is in very good condition. ; Shakespeare, Pelican; 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.3 Inches; 175 pages .
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CA$11.25
The Works of William Shakespeare: The Student' Handy Edition in Twelve Volumes
by Rev. H. N. Hudson, A.M. (Editor)
Copyright 1881. This is the revised edition with extra notes. Unjacketed hardbacks, bound in maroon cloth, gilt stamping on spines, gilt tops and printed endpapers. Edges aged, text tanned.Covers are rubbed, bumped and slightly chipped. Your purchase help our small public library. pi (O-M1)
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CA$131.38
The Merchant of Venice
by Shakespeare, William
Yale U. Press, 1950-09-01. Hardcover. Good. Yale Shakespeare Series 0 Hardcover - EX LIB - No DJ - 6.8 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches -
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CA$27.59
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus [A New Variorum Edition]
by William Shakespeare; Edited by Horace Howard Furness
First Variorum edition. Attractive orange cloth with gilt particulars to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut. Lengthy appendix to rear. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce edition of this title.
7 x 9.75 in
7 x 9.75 in
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CA$152.13
Shakespeare, Text, Language, Criticism. Essays in Honor of Marvin Spevack.
by Fabian, Bernhard; Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador
Hildesheim, Germany: Olms - Weidmann, 1987. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 370 pages of text. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. Minimal spotting to the closed page edges. Contains 20 essays. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..
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CA$138.30
Shakespeare and Appropriation
by Desmet, Christy and Robert Sawyer; Editors
London: Routledge, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 240pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
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CA$41.49
The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769
by Dobson, Michael
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 266pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked but gently toned. DJ has mild rubbing.
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CA$55.32
Comic Persuasion: Moral Structure in British Comedy from Shakespeare to Stoppard.
by Rayner, Alice
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). x, 169 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the inside of the rear cover. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..
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CA$138.30
SHAKESPEARE. THE BIOGRAPHY
by Ackroyd, Peter
NY: Talese/Doubleday, 2005. First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Ackroyd on the title page. Bookshop pagemarker laid-in. Author's Note. List of Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Spine ends lightly pushed, owner name and date on front endpage; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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CA$69.15
The Time is Out of Joint: A Study of Hamlet.
by WALKER, Roy
First edition, 12mo, pp. xv, 157. Text block lightly toned; a little offsetting on free front endpaper; chip at bottom edge of final page. Withal, a near very good copy in the publisher's brown cloth with spine lettering gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket a little weary, with chipping at spine ends & fold points, a few nicks along top edge, & a small tear at rear panel bottom edge. Jacket ensconced now in a sheet of protective mylar.
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CA$39.35
Shakespeare Papers: Pictures Grave and Gay
by Maginn, William
London, England: Richard Bentley, 1859. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5?" - 6?" tall. Type: Ex-Library London, Bentley Publishers, 1859. Small Library Re-bound Hardcover in Good Condition. No Jacket. 368 pages. 6.5" x 4.4". These papers first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, and are here collected into this book, noted Sept, 1859. In brown full cloth w/black titles to spine, quite clean, faint rubbing to lower edge. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Library...
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CA$40.02
A Companion to Shakespeare Studies
by Granville-Barker, Harley and G.B. Harrison
Anchor Books, 1960. Mass Market Paperback. Clean & Unmarked. 0x0x0. A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 390 pp.
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CA$13.83
The Living World of Shakespeare: a Playgoer's Guide
by John Wain
Penguin, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Clean & Unmarked. 0x0x0. A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 267 pp.
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CA$13.83
THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET, BY B.A.P. VAN DAM
by Dam, Bastiaan Adriaan Pieter Van
John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. Poor with no dust jacket. 1924. Paperback. E--Poor condition. Heavy wear and large chips from covers, especially the front cover. Most of spine is missing. Front cover through page 16 is detached from the rest of the book. Large chips from the corners of the front end page and the title page. Many uncut pages along the top margins. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic...
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CA$20.68
William Shakespeare; A Documentary Life.
by Schoenbaum, S
New York.: Oxford University Press., 1975.. Hardcover, . Very good in very good minus dust jacket; bumped corners, edge wear and one small piece missing bottom back of dj.. folio.. Heavy book, requires extra postage.
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CA$38.03
THE KEY TO SHAKESPEARE By The Anatomy of the Figure on the Title-Page of the Folio of 1623 of Shakespeare Plays, Being Anb Exposition of the Famous First olio With Notes to the Tempest, Love's Labor's Lost and Sonnets.
Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1935. New Enlarged Edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt titles. 246 pages. 25 black and white plates. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has a little bit of chipping at edges, a couple of small losed tears, still very good. Cyphers, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare's Identity. .020922C
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CA$69.15
SHAKESPEARE IN HIS OWN TIME.
by Biswas, D. C
Delhi, India: Macmillan Company of India Limited, 1979. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xx, 162 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Minor paperclip crease to the front endpaper. First edition. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..
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CA$103.72
Julius Caesar on Stage in England and America, 1599-1973
by Ripley, John
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy in a Good dust jacket. Fading and edgewear to the jacket; clean and unmarked text. DJ now housed in a mylar wrap.
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CA$71.92
Shakespeare's Comedy Of Twelfth Night Or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
Undated but appears ca 1910 hardcover as pictured. A beautiful copy of Twelfth Night in good shape. Binding is firm. Embossed green cloth boards with black and gold stamping show only light shelf wear and gently bumped corners. Text, printed on heavy stock, is lightly tanned but appears othewise clean and unmarked. Includes 16 tipped in color illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OF4
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CA$52.55
William Shakespeare: An Illustrated Biography
by Holden, Anthony
Little, Brown Book Group, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$15.17
The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition
by Kott, Jan
Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. viii, 165 p. ; 23 cm . Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards. Book Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. A sharp copy. Translated by Daniela Miedzyrzecka and Lilian Vallee.
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CA$41.49
THREE PLAYS
by (SHAW, George Bernard) ARCHER, William
London: Constable and Company Ltd., (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Laurence B158. Shaw contributes a 34-page introduction to this book by one of his closest friends and a helpful guide to many playwrights including Shaw, for whom he arranged his first salaried writing job. Bookplate of Henry Eastman Lower on the front pastedown. Slight darkening of spine.
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CA$34.58
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Twelfe Night, or, What You Will [A New Variorum Edition]
by William Shakespeare; Edited by Horace Howard Furness
Attractive orange cloth with gilt particulars to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut. A lengthy appendix to rear. A nice clean tight copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
7 x 9.75 in
7 x 9.75 in
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CA$152.13
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