The Carib Chief: A Tragedy in Five Acts
by Twiss, Horace
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- Hardcover
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819., 1819. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Octavo. viii, 110 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Black half-calf ; leather label with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration. Marbled paper-covered boards and all edges marbled. Edges rubbed; minor scattered foxing, mainly to endpapers. Inscribed "with the Author's compliments" to title page. Drama set on the Island of Domenica in early Elizabethan times, by Shakespearian scholar Twiss (1787-1849), MP and Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4311
- Title
- The Carib Chief: A Tragedy in Five Acts
- Author
- Twiss, Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
- Date Published
- 1819
- Keywords
- Theatre & Drama
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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