This Happy Breed: A Play in Three Acts
by Coward, Noel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947 First American Edition. 12mo 7 5/8" tall. Black and grey cloth stamped in violet and gilt with top page edges stained red. 223pp. Presentation bookplate from Priscilla Theatre of Plymouth, Mass. otherwise clean. Tight. no jacket. Near Fine condition..
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11761
- Title
- This Happy Breed: A Play in Three Acts
- Author
- Coward, Noel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Theatre
- Bookseller catalogs
- Temporary #3;
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Cultural Connection
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
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Cape Coral, Florida
About Cultural Connection
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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