The Folio Shakespeare: As You Like It
by SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & DALI, SALVADOR (Illus)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
The Folio Society 1953. First edition thus, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and black&gilt feather decoration to front board, frontispiece, 95pp, illus with colour costumes & d�cor designs by Dali, VG (fading to boards, browning to spine, browning to eps) in VG d/w (2cm tear to upper rear corner & lower left front corner, fading & staining to rear, rubbing to edges, browning to interior)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130829
- Title
- The Folio Shakespeare: As You Like It
- Author
- SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & DALI, SALVADOR (Illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society 1953
- Keywords
- first edition thus William Shakespeare Salavador Dali English literature drama theatre play
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.