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Shakespeare and His World

Hardcover. Condición: VG+/VG+/VG. y 1st. Edn, 4th. Imp. HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON NON BOOK-CLUB EDITION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 4th.* Date of Publication: 1976 (1956)* Publisher: Thames & Hudson.* Binding and cover condition: Orange-red cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine & logo to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to lower edges & to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, red and black titles to face, faded spine (shows no title). NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £3.25. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: Ex school-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Top edge aged and dusty. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, line drawings and facsimiles within text throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text. xx pp., family tree, notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The object of this book, as Mr Haliday writes in his preface, is ?quite simply to describe what we know about Shakespeare?s life after three centuries of discovery, and to illuminate and animate the story by illustration.? And ?what we know? will probably surprise a great many people ? reassuring them, incidentally, if they have any doubts, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really was the author of the plays attributed to him. All the photographs of present-day Stratford and the surrounding countryside were especially taken for this book by Edwin Smith.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/4th. with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* 1980-10-01. n. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9483

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