MEETING AT THE SPHINX: Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
by Deans, Marjorie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Macdonald & Co., 1946. First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.
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- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002547
- Title
- MEETING AT THE SPHINX: Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
- Author
- Deans, Marjorie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macdonald & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Drama Film performing Arts Gabriel Pascal Oliver Messel Bernard Shaw Caesar Cleopatra
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film; Performing Arts;
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- Octavo
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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