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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural: Seven Plays Including The Girl in the Coffin
by DREISER, Theodore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: John Lane Company / John Lane, The Bodley Head. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. A first edition (so indicated by matching dates on title and copyright pages) of a collection of seven plays by Theodore Dreiser. With tipped-in 4 pg. addendum at rear, "The Anaesthetic Revelation." --- In green paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth with paper title label affixed to spine. Deckled fore- and bottom edges, green endpapers. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With inked presentation remarks to front free endpaper, 6 cm. tear to leaf near front of volume and general age-toning to leaves. Also with some cover and spine soiling, darkening to spine label, and loosened front hinge, else a sound, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 228, 4 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88484
- Title
- Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural: Seven Plays Including The Girl in the Coffin
- Author
- DREISER, Theodore
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane Company / John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1916
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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