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Wilhelm Tell
by Schiller, Friedrich
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Kabul: Pashtu Academy, Government Printing House, 1962. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 170pp. Original illustrated wrapper with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece portrait of Schiller. Schiller's dramatization of the early 14th century legend of Swiss national hero Wilhelm Tell, first recorded in the Swiss Chronicle late in the 15th century. Tell and his son were sentenced to be executed as a result of their refusal to acknowledge the authorities. The famous apple-shot by WilhelmTell, shooting an apple placed on the head of his son with a crossbow, saved their lives. Translated into Persian by Sma Jamal-Zadeh, into Pashto by M. Alam Otman and published at the Pashtu Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Illustrated with one b/w map and an additional portrait of Schiller. Text in Pashto and Persian. Wrappers and block moderately age-toned. Owner's name on back endpaper. Wrappers and interior in overall good+ to very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35887
- Title
- Wilhelm Tell
- Author
- Schiller, Friedrich
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pashtu Academy, Government Printing House
- Place of Publication
- Kabul
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- German drama, German play, translation, Swiss history, Swiss drama
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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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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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...