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Secker & Warburg, London, England, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Henry Moore. 96 pages. Cream cloth cover has navy lettering on spine, is lightly discoloured and has minor rubbing. Dust jacket is price clipped, has large closed tear across lower front, smaller one at upper front, open tear at upper spine edge, lower spine edge has small open tear. Jacket now protected by plastic. Bookseller's sticker on inside pastedown, light foxing to endpapers, colour illustrations. Copy is neat. 96 pages. Illustrator: Henry Moore. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Plays; Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 119081..
The Rescue by Edward Sackville-West - 1945
by Edward Sackville-West
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The Rescue
by Edward Sackville-West
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- very good
- Hardcover
London: Secker And Warburg, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Henry Moore. Sackville-West's ground-breaking radio drama, presented with excellent colour and mono illustrations by Moore. Stock a little toned and light foxing to endpapers, but otherwise all in VG order throughout, with illustrations showing particularly well. Cream cloth marked to edges and spine. Good unclipped d/j with minor loss to rear, now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. 96pp
- Bookseller Dodman Books (GB)
- Illustrator Henry Moore
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Secker And Warburg
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1945
- Pages 96
- Size 8vo
- Size 8vo
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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Edward Sackville-West
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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A$15.00
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The Rescue
by Edward Sackville-West
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
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HALESWORTH, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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A$32.06
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Secker & Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Henry Moore. Six colour plates by Moore. Dcent clean copy, no ownership inscriptions. One plate has a little surface lolss, (see scan).
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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition, Limited
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- Hardcover
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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A$33.38
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London: Secker & Warburg,, 1945. Book. Illus. by Moore, Henry. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited. Fine but for sunned spine and peripheries. # 331 of 850 copies. TEG. Six colour plates by Henry Moore. Orchestral score by Benjamin Britten..
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The Rescue
by Sackville-West, Edward
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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A$38.86
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Moore, Henry. 96pp, six plates, four in full colour all by Henry Moore. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Water mottled spine, leaching to boards. Mildly rubbed spine ends. Bottom corners rubbed. Gilded text block top edge. Dust jacket rubbed, with section at head of spine missing and top rear corner. Closed tears along top and at heel of spine on rear. Evidence of removed labels on front end papers. some tannin to page edges. No. 143 of an edition limited to 850 copies, printed on hand-made paper. Original script, with musical cues, of the radio melodrama based on The Odyssey which was broadcast in 1943.
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The Rescue
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Hardcover
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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A$267.94
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London, Seeker & Warburg [1945]., 1945. First edition. 8vo. Six full-page color illustrations by Henry Moore. Original blue cloth, t.e.g., uncut. Dust jacket (unclipped; small nicks). Very good. Number 728 of 850 numbered copies. A radio melodrama based on Homer's "Odyssey," with orchestral score by Benjamin Britten.. F. Hardcover.
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THE RESCUE: a melodrama for broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward
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- first
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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A$400.00
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. Orchestral Score by Benjamin Britten. With six illustrations to the text by Henry Moore. Pp. 96, 6 plates (4 coloured); demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the lower board flecked and lightly bruised at top fore-corner, spine slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and rubbed, edges chipped and split, with small piece torn from bottom edge of front panel near fore-corner; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing; Secker & Warburg, London, 1945. First edition, limited to 850 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. *'This is the first occasion on which the designs of Mr. Henry Moore have appeared as direct illustrations to a text' [wrapper blurb] The Rescue was broadcast over two evenings from Thursday 25th November 1943. Both the text and the dramatic illustrations resonated with contemporary events in Europe.
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