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BEAUTIFUL STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE: BEING A CHOICE COLLECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLASSIC WRITER WM. SHAKESPEARE
by Shakespeare, Wiliam ; E. Nesbit (retold by)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Weathervane Books, 1973. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Good/Good. Bihn, Max. New York: Weathervane Books, circa 1973. First edition, first printing thus. 9 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 283. Black lettering to illustrated tan jacket. Gilt lettering on spine of black boards.
Light shelfwear to edges of dust jacket. Edge wear to boards. Some foxing, soiling to page edges and free facing end page. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. A facsimile of the 1907 Edition. Edited and arranged by E. T. Roe. Twenty of Shakespeares best loved stories retold by English author, E. Nesbit.
Light shelfwear to edges of dust jacket. Edge wear to boards. Some foxing, soiling to page edges and free facing end page. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. A facsimile of the 1907 Edition. Edited and arranged by E. T. Roe. Twenty of Shakespeares best loved stories retold by English author, E. Nesbit.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 686
- Title
- BEAUTIFUL STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE: BEING A CHOICE COLLECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLASSIC WRITER WM. SHAKESPEARE
- Author
- Shakespeare, Wiliam ; E. Nesbit (retold by)
- Illustrator
- Bihn, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Weathervane Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- medieval stories, Elizabethan-age stories, retold Shakespeare stories
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
About Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Gilt
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- Shelfwear
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