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Saint Joan - Major Barbara - Androcles the Lion: Complete and Unabridged with the Famous Prefaces [Modern Library No. 294]
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Fulshear, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House [The Modern Library] Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth with gilt ruling and black labels with gilt lettering found on the spine and front cover. Slight wear visible to boards, spotting to dark topstain; rubbing, chipping, and edge wear to the jacket with a small amount of moisture stain to the rear flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 479 pages plus a complete list of titles found in the Modern Library (also printed on the verso of the jacket) and a list of Modern Library Giants. Title listings are complete to date, circa 1950s. 0.
Synopsis
One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.
Reviews
On Oct 16 2010, ElectricEel said:
As usual, Shaw works very hard at shocking the reader/viewer. He claims that the first trial, at which Joan was convicted, was more than fair, while the postumous trial, at which she was rehabilitated, was a kangaroo court. But maybe he's right. He also makes it clear that we're all willing to defend Joan now that she's been dead a few hundred years, but that if she were to reappear, we modern liberals would be the first to join the lynch mob.
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- Bookseller
- Whiting Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011890
- Title
- Saint Joan - Major Barbara - Androcles the Lion: Complete and Unabridged with the Famous Prefaces [Modern Library No. 294]
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Random House [The Modern Library]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Modern Library, Bernard Shaw
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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