THE GAY COUPLE IN RESTORATION COMEDY
by Smith, John Harrington
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_6753.jpg. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press. 1948. 1st editiion. xi+252pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with a bit of age toning along spine strip but otherwise in very good condition. It is not price clipped. * "The 'Gay Couple,' that engaging pair of lovers in seventeenth-century comedy to whom courtship is a game and duel of wits, are traced by Mr. Smith from their origin with the Elizabethans through their rise in pre-Civil War time and triumph in the Restoration to their decline at the end of the century."
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25134
- Title
- THE GAY COUPLE IN RESTORATION COMEDY
- Author
- Smith, John Harrington
- Illustrator
- http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_6753.jpg
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.