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Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- Seller
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Aurora, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Burning Bright - John Steinbeck (First Edition 1st Printing 1950 Hardcover w/ Original DJ) Novel Play
Subtitle: "A Play in Story Form."
Copyright 1950, published by The Viking Press (NY). 159 pages. Goldstone & Payne, A29a. Stated 'First published by The Viking Press in November 1950' on the copyright page with no subsequent printings listed. Original dust jacket has $2.50 on the front inside flap and is in a protective mylar cover. Dust jacket has dark smudges, stains, marks, soiling, scuffs, heavy sunfade, large chips and nicks to the edges (particularly above the spine head), as well as pencil markings on the rear inside flap. Tan hardcover shows wear to include edgewear, shelfwear, scratches, nicks, and a torn spine head & tail. Orange publisher's top stain has several specks on the topedge. All three sides have nicks to the textblock. Overall, it is in Good Plus (G+) condition.
Synopsis
Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes with details of both the characters and the environment. The intention was to allow the play to be read by the non-theatrical reader while still allowing the dialogue to be lifted and performed with little adaptation by acting companies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bronze Anthology LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1097
- Title
- Burning Bright
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Burning Bright, John Steinbeck, First Edition, 1st Printing, 1950, Hardcover, Original Dust Jacket, Novel Play, Joe Saul, Experiment, Morality
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Fiction; First Edition;
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Bronze Anthology LLC
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About the Seller
Bronze Anthology LLC
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Aurora, Colorado
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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- Spine
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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...
- Copyright page
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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