William Shakesepare (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 194pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 272 pp faded black hard cover with gilt text on the cover and spine. Faded and worn top and bottom of the spine and cover corners with scuff marks on the front cover. Ex library pocket stamps and sticker. Pencil marks on cover page. Clean tight pages. Edited by William J. Rolfe, Litt.D. formerly head master of the High School Cambridge, Mass. Illustrated. Published by American Book Company in 1906. 6 1/2 x 4 7/16. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. No edition / printing / date stated (c. 1860s-1870s). Poor 4to hardcover in NO dj as issued. Leather boards with tooled decoration around the stamped bust of Shakespeare; gilt added to the stamped bust of the upper board. Hubbed spine with gilt lettering and decorations. Boards are lightly rubbed, the edges and hubs rubbed, and the corners heavily rubbed. Chipping and erosion in the spine tail, cuts in the spine head. Graded as poor primarily because these covers are no longer attached to the contents. All gilt edges are dust stained on top. The decorated ffep through page xxii of the Story of Shakespeare's Life are loose. Included among these loose pages is a false title page for the "Complete Works of Shakespeare from the Original Text" published in 1861 by Johnson, Fry & Company. A few additional leafs in the initial play, The Tempest, are also loose or shaken, and all text pages are age tanned. Still, the contents, xl, 727 pp., appear complete and free of markings. NOT an ex-library copy! **Extra charges will be required for expedited or international orders because of the size and weight of this book.…