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J. B. A Play in Verse
by MacLeish, Archibald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. "In MacLeish's J. B. Two broken-down actors, reduced to selling popcorn and balloons in a circus, venture to exercise their rusty talents and reinflate their egos by reading the parts of God and Satan after closing time on a side-show stage where others, it appears, have played the play of Job before them." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is slightly skewed and loose, moderate edge wear, small bumps on bottom corners, faded on edges of boards and endpapers, light tanning to edges of pages; overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, 1-inch tear on head edge of front cover, light soiling on both covers, faintly tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68850
- Title
- J. B. A Play in Verse
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1958
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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