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And so ad infinitum' (The life of the Insects).AN ENTOMOLOGICAL REVIEW IN THREE ACTS
by Capek, The Brothers (Karel & Josef Capek) Freely Adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax
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London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1923. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Uk Edition, First Print, small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-69 [70-72: blank], original lavender wrappers printed in black. First edition in English. Also known as "The Insect Play" (a.k.a. "The World We Live In"). "Perhaps the most brilliant of his plays, and the only unquestionable fantasy drama among them . mocks human life and pretensions through a series of beast-fable episodes in which various insects perform vaudeville versions of human behavior at the edge of extinction." - Clute and Grant (ed), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 164. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-75. Wear to the spine and uneven fade to the wrappers,internally clean. C.H. Norman's copy with his signature to the copyright page.
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- Title
- And so ad infinitum' (The life of the Insects).AN ENTOMOLOGICAL REVIEW IN THREE ACTS
- Author
- Capek, The Brothers (Karel & Josef Capek) Freely Adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- AND SO AD INFINITUM' (THE LIFE OF THE INSECTS).AN ENTOMOLOGICAL REVIEW IN THREE ACTS, CAPEK
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