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Best Plays by Chekhov: The Sea Gull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard (Modern Library #171.2)
by CHEKHOV, Anton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1956 (confirmed by list of titles at rear of volume). A collection of four plays by Russia's Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in a Modern Library hardcover edition. Chekhov is considered one of the greatest of the Russian writers, excelling at short stories as well as drama. The plays are translated from the Russian by Stark Young, who has also supplied an introduction. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / volume lacks the dust jacket. ML #171.2. --- With mild age-toning to leaves and slight chafing to cover extremities, otherwise a tightly-bound, well-preserved and unmarked copy.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xiii, 296, [8, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88400
- Title
- Best Plays by Chekhov: The Sea Gull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard (Modern Library #171.2)
- Author
- CHEKHOV, Anton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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