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UsedGood. Baker's Plays paperback; not torn; name written on cover; writing and paper clip mark in text

Boston: Baker's Plays Book. Near Fine. Paperback. First Thus. Baker's Plays First Thus Stapled Wraps.

New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company, 1891. Perhaps Ibsen's greatest play; certainly Hedda is acknowledged as one of the greatest roles for an actor. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition, issued in the same year as the English version and the year of its premier production in Germany. Rare. The translation from the original Norwegian is by Edmund Gosse. Translator's Note states that it is the only authorized version (in the 19th Century, prior to the establishment of copyright agreements, pirate editions were common). Green cloth binding with titling on the front cover is dark green; the spine is a darker green with gilt titling (replicates the English issue). Clean text; 273 pages, with six pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Previous-owner signature (pencil, 1904) on the FFEP. Light bumps; moderate soiling and a small stain on the front cover. The spine is lightly rubbed at the margins. A very solid copy of this classic… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1891. First English edition. 8vo, pp. 235 + adv. Bound in cloth backed boards, a very nice copy. With a mounted photogravure of H. I. Serving as frontispiece. See Printing and the Mind of Man 375. This translation was reprinted in America the same year. One of Ibsen's major feminist plays, despite the author's modest claims that the spiritual struggles he depicts were universal and not unique to one gender.

New York: John W. Lovell & Co, 1891. FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING. No. 49 OF 100 COPIES of the Large Paper Edition. 210 x 165 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/2"). xv, 236 pp.Translated from the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse. Contemporary chocolate brown three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with lily-of-the-valley sprig at center, volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With frontispiece photogravure portrait of Ibsen, and two photo-mezzo-type pictures of actresses Miss Robins and Miss Lea in their roles in the London production. Front pastedown with bookplate of Henry Horner; front free endpaper with small gift inscription in green ink, dated 1923. PMM 375 (Norwegian Edition). ◆A VERY FINE COPY, with just a small, isolated dent to fore-edge of upper board; the contents extremely clean and fresh. This is a limited, Large Paper Copy of Ibsen's most famous play, very rare both institutionally and in commerce, with visually pleasing wide… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1891. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xv, [1], 236 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates. Scattered foxing, boards slightly splayed, else a Near Fine copy of an extremely scarce book. Elegant signed Zaehnsdorf binding in full white vellum, boards ruled in gold, spine elaborately decorated with brown morocco title label and dated '1891' at foot; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; gold tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; translated into English with an introduction by Edmund Gosse. Frontis photogravure portrait on India Paper of Ibsen and photomezzotype portraits of American actresses Elizabeth Robins and Marion Lea in their roles in the London production. #51 of the deluxe 'Large Paper Edition, limited to One Hundred Numbered Copies.' Printing and the Mind of Man 375; 'Revolution in the Theatre' (Norweigian edition).