A DELICATE BALANCE: A PLAY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
by Albee, Edward (play); Holland, Tom (illustrations)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.41. Octavo (24cm); lavender cloth and purple goatskin, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and pictorial only inset on front cover; [ii],169,[5]pp, with four color prints by Tom Holland. Hint of sunning to spine, else very Near Fine. Handsome fine press production of Albee's 1966 play, which won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. With a new introduction by David Littlejohn. Arion 92.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5992
- Title
- A DELICATE BALANCE: A PLAY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
- Author
- Albee, Edward (play); Holland, Tom (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arion Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2011
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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