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The Magic Curtain
by Langner, Lawrence
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951. Stated First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. As new condition - a beautiful copy. Clean unfaded burgundy cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, bright gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with 113 photographs in gravure. Frontispiece photo portrait of the author. 498 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is not price clipped (6.60 on front inside flap), has very shallow chipping at top spine edge (1/16"). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An autobiography of the Founder of The Theatre Guild, a book filled with information and alive with the prominent personalities of the greatest era of the American Theatre and American Invention..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026253
- Title
- The Magic Curtain
- Author
- Langner, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- PLAYS, THEATER, AMERICAN THEATRE GUILD, INVENTION, LAWRENCE LANGNER, BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays / Theater;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Gravure
- ...
- 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...
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