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Secker & Warburg, London, England, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Henry Moore. 96 pages. Cream cloth cover has navy lettering on spine, is lightly discoloured and has minor rubbing. Dust jacket is price clipped, has large closed tear across lower front, smaller one at upper front, open tear at upper spine edge, lower spine edge has small open tear. Jacket now protected by plastic. Bookseller's sticker on inside pastedown, light foxing to endpapers, colour illustrations. Copy is neat. 96 pages. Illustrator: Henry Moore. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Plays; Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 119081..
The Rescue by Edward Sackville-West - 1945
by Edward Sackville-West
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The Rescue
by Edward Sackville-West
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No. 642 of 850 of a BBC Radio-play Melodrama based on Homer's Odyssey for broadcasting performed by the BBC in November 1943 with six colour plates by Henry Moore (without Benjamin Britten's orchestral score)
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- Illustrator Henry Moore
- Book Condition Used - Printed on hand-made paper. Top edge gilt. Fine cloth copy with slight sunning to one-inch strip of front board. Dust cover miss
- Jacket Condition No DJ
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition 96 pp.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Secker and Warburg
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1945
- Keywords Drama, Odyssey, Belles-Lettres
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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Edward Sackville-West
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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The Rescue
by Edward Sackville-West
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HALESWORTH, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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£16.50
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Secker & Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Henry Moore. Six colour plates by Moore. Dcent clean copy, no ownership inscriptions. One plate has a little surface lolss, (see scan).
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by Edward Sackville-West
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Morston, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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London: Secker And Warburg, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Henry Moore. Sackville-West's ground-breaking radio drama, presented with excellent colour and mono illustrations by Moore. Stock a little toned and light foxing to endpapers, but otherwise all in VG order throughout, with illustrations showing particularly well. Cream cloth marked to edges and spine. Good unclipped d/j with minor loss to rear, now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. 96pp
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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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£17.73
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London: Secker & Warburg,, 1945. Book. Illus. by Moore, Henry. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited. Fine but for sunned spine and peripheries. # 331 of 850 copies. TEG. Six colour plates by Henry Moore. Orchestral score by Benjamin Britten..
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The Rescue, a Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward ; illustrated by Henry Moore
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LEWES, United Kingdom
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Secker and Warburg, London, 1945, unlimited edition,. 1945. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 96pp, 6 plates (4 colour), owners' inscriptions on endpapers, pages browning, text clean and sound, cream cloth, spine and board edges browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper .
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The Rescue a melodrama for broadcasting Based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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£18.00
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London: Secker & Warburg Limited, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. Moore, Henry. 96pp. A limited edition on hand-made paper of 850 copies - this being number 826. No other inscriptions. Original publisher's blue cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. No jacket. Rough-cut edges - as it should be. Upper edge gilt. The tail of the spine a llittle bumped and all four board corners a little bumped or turned in. None heavy. A very good copy of a relatively rare publication - just 850 copies being limited.
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The Rescue: A Melodrama for Broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey
by Sackville-West, Edward; Henry Moore illus., Benjamin Britten composer
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9" x 6"), gilt blue cloth. 96 pp., color illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, spine sunned, extremities faded, light offsetting to pastedowns; Fair dj, chips with loss at corners and spine, tears at edges, worn wrappers. Copy 849 of an edition of 850 copies, "this is the first occasion on which the designs of Mr. Henry Moore have appeared as direct illustrations to a text.
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The Rescue
by Sackville-West, Edward
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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£20.00
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Moore, Henry. 96pp, six plates, four in full colour all by Henry Moore. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Water mottled spine, leaching to boards. Mildly rubbed spine ends. Bottom corners rubbed. Gilded text block top edge. Dust jacket rubbed, with section at head of spine missing and top rear corner. Closed tears along top and at heel of spine on rear. Evidence of removed labels on front end papers. some tannin to page edges. No. 143 of an edition limited to 850 copies, printed on hand-made paper. Original script, with musical cues, of the radio melodrama based on The Odyssey which was broadcast in 1943.
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The Rescue
by (Edward) Sackville-West
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Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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£10.00
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Secker & Warburg. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Henry Moore. Illustrated in line and colour by Henry Moore, Damp stains to covers, large tears to dust wrapper.foxing to endpapers. Internally good Size: Octavo (standard book size). Illustrator: Henry Moore. Category: Theatre & Plays; .
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The Rescue. A Meolodrama For Broadcasting Based On Homer's Odysse
by EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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£38.46
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First Edition Thus #15 of 850. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Moore Henry. in very good condition with no gift inscription or remarks inside. no dust jacket, sun damge at the spine. limited edition #15 of 850 copies. small inscription at the front dated 1946. limited edition hand made paper.- We can ship from Canada and the USA, based on your address. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.
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