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From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: An Astounding and Wholly Unauthorized History of English Literature
by Myers, Robert Manson
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Hardback First Edition in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Illustrations from "The History of the Novel in England", by Robert Morss Lovett and Helen Sars Hughes. Handsome burgundy cloth with gilt titles to front and spine is spotless, with faint wear to spine head and heel and lower corners; sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Internals quite clean, no marks of any kind. Jacket has wear to corners and spine head and heel, a tiny scuff to the fold-over edge, three small closed tears to edge. 75 pages. 5.8 x 8.25 inches. 1952, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030102
- Title
- From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: An Astounding and Wholly Unauthorized History of English Literature
- Author
- Myers, Robert Manson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM, SATIRCAL; HUMOR; SATIRE ; WOLF MOTIF IN ENGLISH;
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- Gilt
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