Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics: Shakespeare's Life of King Henry the Fifth
by Bowles, Ralph Hartt (editor)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; pages are toning; writing in pencil and ink throughout the book; overall still a nice used copy! Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and black lettering on the spine. 207 historical and poetic pages! "Shakespeare occupies so unique a place in the minds and hearts of the English-speaking peoples that we are apt to think of him as a solitary genius, whose appearance in the world of letters was sudden and astonishing, and whose extraordinary work owes nothing either to earlier or to contemporary influences. Such a view is, of course, erroneous........" ----- from the Introduction (The English Drama).. Reprint (1905). Brown Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048829
- Title
- Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics: Shakespeare's Life of King Henry the Fifth
- Author
- Bowles, Ralph Hartt (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint (1905)
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- PLAYS POEMS DRAMATIC WORKS LITERATURE LITERARY SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM 1564 1616 HISTORY 16TH CENTURY 17TH CONTROVERSY POETS DRAMATISTS PLAYWRIGHTS ENGLISH PSYCHOMACHIA MORALITY PLAY DRAMA MYSTERY SUSPENSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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