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Four Playwrights and a Postscript; Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet
by David I. Grossvogel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cornell University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1962. First Edition. 209 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Jacket is in plastic cover and has been taped to boards. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light pencil marginalia to pages. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is in plastic cover. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Some dark rubbed marking to panels.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1646981471MHP
- Title
- Four Playwrights and a Postscript; Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet
- Author
- David I. Grossvogel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Date Published
- 1962
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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