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Shakespeare's Boy Actors
by Davies, W. Robertson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1939. Hardcover. fine. 1st Edition. vii,207,[1]pp. Octavo. 8 plates (including frontispiece). Original cobalt blue cloth, blue top edge; in rare price clipped illustrated dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, with minor chipping head and foot of spine, and minor dampstains on spine; name on front free endpaper. Author's first book on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Much of the production was pulped for the war effort, probably less then 500-600 copies survived (according to the author) 1939
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118793
- Title
- Shakespeare's Boy Actors
- Author
- Davies, W. Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Can Lit|Canadian Literature|Davies, Robertson|Thesis
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- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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