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Rise and Fall of the Well Made Play
by Taylor, John Russell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 041628860X
- ISBN 13
- 9780416288605
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1967* Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title & Dewey code in white to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & fade to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour text-illustrated dust wrapper, red, black and blue titles to face and black titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 30s. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with some slight age darkening. Slight damp marks to lower corners. Now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: Ex school library copy with the usual stamps and labels. Minor off-setting to end papers. Top edge aged. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 165 pp. text. xii pp., bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: "The Well-Made play" It sounds like a compliment, but for nearly fifty years it has been used as an insult. In this provocative study John Russell Taylor sets out to re-examine the whole movement of "well made" drama in Britain, from T.W.Robertson to Terence Rattigan and to discover exactly why the compliment became an insult. In the process, new light is thrown on a whole era of British drama.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9447
- Title
- Rise and Fall of the Well Made Play
- Author
- Taylor, John Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 041628860X
- ISBN 13
- 9780416288605
- Publisher
- Methuen young books
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 177
- Date Published
- 1967-10-01
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