Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts
by Jonson, Ben; Zweig, Stefan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, owner (I. A. Herskowitz) bookplate on front pastedown, spine cracked.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Viking Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, owner (I. A. . Herskowitz) bookplate on front pastedown, spine cracked.. 1928. Hardcover. Zweig's adaptation of Ben Jonson's play, translated from the German by Ruth Langner. Frontispiece, title page vignette, endpapers and boards illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Tan decorative cloth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42109
- Title
- Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts
- Author
- Jonson, Ben; Zweig, Stefan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, owner (I. A. Herskowitz) bookplate on front pastedown, spine cracked.
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Elizabethan Plays, Ben Jonson, AUBREY Beardsley
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre and Film;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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