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Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar (Everyman's Library: Poetry and the Drama)
by GOSSE, Edmund, introduction by
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London / New York: J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. xix, 431pp. Endpapers and title page illustrated by Reginald L. Knowles. Green cloth with gilt decorated spine. Contemporary owner's name on front pastedown with marginalia on contents and a couple of pages, two small droplets on top page edges, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Plays included are "All For Love" by Dryden, "The Country Wife" by Wycherley, "The Way of the World" by Congreve, "Venice Preserved" by Otway, "The Beaux-Stratagem" by Farquhar, and "The Provoked Wife" by Vanbrugh.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 189096
- Title
- Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar (Everyman's Library: Poetry and the Drama)
- Author
- GOSSE, Edmund, introduction by
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton & Co
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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