A Sleep Of Prisoners [with] Original Brass binding die-stamp for the spine of the book
by FRY, Christopher
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
[With]: Original brass binding die stamp for the spine of the book. Approximately .50" x 4.5". The metal die shows traces of the blue ink with which the spine was stamped and is a little tarnished, else about fine. The die reads (in reverse lettering): "A Sleep of Prisoners / Fry / Oxford". The book is provided for comparison purposes; the die is the same that was also used on the first edition.
The provenance presents a mildly interesting story: a local colleague was buying books out of the trunk of a gentleman's car and came across a bag of brass die-stamps from the Oxford University Press from the late 1930s through the early 1950s, when Oxford did much of their printing in the U.S. My colleague inquired and the gentleman revealed that his next stop was the scrap yard where he was going to sell the dies to be melted down for the brass. My colleague paid him double the scrap price for them. We paid a bit more. In any event, a unique artifact from the books of the English dramatist.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 406261
- Title
- A Sleep Of Prisoners [with] Original Brass binding die-stamp for the spine of the book
- Author
- FRY, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Drama, EnglishLiterature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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