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The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of author's description of the society and events in England and Scotland during Shakespeare's time. With 12 black & white illustrations. --- In olive cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations gilt-stamped on cover and spine; top edge gilt, remaining textblock edges heavily deckled. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down and some toning to spine, else a clean, firm, unmarked copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 187 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81884
- Title
- The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
- Author
- WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>England, UK and UK History;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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