A Wanderer With Shakespeare
by Russell Thorndike
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Rich and Cowan Ltd, 1939. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches (15 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Wear to ends of spine, some edge wear to front cover. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Minus. Book: Green buckram binding. Slight fading to ends of spine, foxing to page edges, half title page and final blank. Previous owner's name plus another scribbled out to front free endpaper. Clean text throughout. From the author of the Doctor Syn novels. 'Does not set out to describe the places, which Shakespeare may have visited, but rather those scenes he asks us to see in his plays. It is meant to be a pilgrimage to those localities in which his characters moved and talked and to see them as they are today in comparison with what they were in the time of his writings'. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches (15 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 381
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1184E048
- Title
- A Wanderer With Shakespeare
- Author
- Russell Thorndike
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rich and Cowan Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches (15 x 22 cm)
- Keywords
- , Literary_Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism & Bibliography;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
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About the Seller
Tarrington Books
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Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...