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Garrick's Folly: the Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 at Stratford and Drury Lane
by Johanne M. Stochholm
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen & Co Ltd, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. First Edition. 178 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over dark grey cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Tape residue to endpapers and pastedowns along with slight dog-eared pages throughout. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges with heavier foxing to top edge. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well. Unclipped jacket with minor edge wear and rubbing. Foxing to the flaps and to interior as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1606495980EWY
- Title
- Garrick's Folly: the Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 at Stratford and Drury Lane
- Author
- Johanne M. Stochholm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1964
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Rubbing
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Flap(s)
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