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The Rivals
by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: White and Allen, 1889. Hardcover. fair. Gregory, Frank M.. Folio. xx,61pp. Multicolored pictorial green cloth, gold lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Aquarelle frontispiece with protective tissue. Illustrated with 5 reproductions of color aquarelle prints and 38 b/w reproductions of drawings by Frank M. Gregory, all with protective tissue. A five-act comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). One b/w and one color plate detached but present. Head and tail of spine chipped and worn, wear to corners. Heavy soiling to boards. Pulling to edges of some pages. Fore and bottom page edges untrimmed as issued. Binding in fair, interior in good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22338
- Title
- The Rivals
- Author
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Illustrator
- Gregory, Frank M.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- White and Allen
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- play, dramatic arts, british theatre, english drama, social class, satire, bourgeois
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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