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Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple; Caesar & Cleopatra; and Captain Brasshound's Conversion
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1901. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1912 7th printing. Rebound in half leather. Edges rubbed, spine toned, pencil name and address on rear endpaper. 1901 Half-Leather. xxxvii, [5], 308, [6] pp. 8vo. Green leather spine and corners, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Portrait of Lieut. General Burgoyne precedes text. Three plays by the the British playwright best known for Pygmalion, which was adapted as the musical My Fair Lady. Includes: The Devil's Disciple, Ceasar & Cleopatra, Captain Brasshound's Conversion.
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2289770
- Title
- Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple; Caesar & Cleopatra; and Captain Brasshound's Conversion
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.13 lbs
- Keywords
- CLASSICS PLAYS LITERATURE ENGLISH BRITISH DRAMA DRAMATIC WORKS BERNARD SHAW
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
Biblio member since 2005
Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
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