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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by Nesbit, E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1588278069
- ISBN 13
- 9781588278067
- Seller
-
Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
IndyPublish, 2002-02-19. Hardcover. Very Good. 2002 first edition, IndyPublish (McLean, Virginia), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, [14], 127, [40] pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce adaptation of Shakespeare's works for children, especially good for reading aloud, written in comparatively simple English by renowned English children's author and poet Edith Nesbit (1858-1924). ~MMM~ [1.5P] Stories from the works of Shakespeare, adapted by English author and poet E. Nesbit for children. Contents: Preface; A brief life of Shakespeare; A midsummer night's dream; The tempest; As you like it; The winter's tale; King Lear; Twelfth night; Much ado about nothing; Romeo and Juliet; Pericles; Hamlet; Cymbeline; Macbeth; The comedy of errors; The merchant of Venice; Timon of Athens; Othello; The taming of the shrew; Measure of measure; Two gentlemen of Verona; All's well that ends well; Pronouncing vocabulary of names; Quotations from Shakespeare.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MMM-0181-8552
- Title
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
- Author
- Nesbit, E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1588278069
- ISBN 13
- 9781588278067
- Publisher
- IndyPublish
- Date Published
- 2002-02-19
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Flamingo Books
Biblio member since 2011
Menifee, California
About Flamingo Books
Flamingo Books specializes in scarce and unusual nonfiction books and ephemera, with an emphasis on the natural sciences, religion, law, history and antiquarian titles.
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