TWO PLAYS; TARTUFFE AND THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN
by MOLIERE
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980. AEG. Spine and covers designed and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. Illustrations by Serge Ivanoff. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. From the Easton series, "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". "Tartuffe" was first performed in 1664 and "The Would-be Gentleman" in 1670. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673) was a French playwright, poet, actor who was known by his stage name, one of the great French writers in all history. 197pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Deep Red Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015084
- Title
- TWO PLAYS; TARTUFFE AND THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN
- Author
- MOLIERE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- Super Royal Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- French Literature, Plays, Theater, Moliere, Fine Binding
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...