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Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, NY, 1936
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rockwell Kent, Illustrator (illustrator). Garden City Books, Garden City, NY. c1936. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. The Cambridge Edition Text with the Temple Notes. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light chipping to tail, missing small pieces at head; light wear to tips. Red cloth boards with gray overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering in a pink shadow box on the spine; gilt WS on the front board. Sprinkled edges. Blue endpapers with WS monogram on all. Interior clean. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 1527 pp 4to. The most distinguished and readable one-volume Shakespeare ever printed, containing forty full page illustrations by Rockwell Kent; the Cambridge Text; the famous Temple Notes; Complete Indexes; a Glossary of words and phrases; and a compact modern synopsis of each play. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No International Shipping. Priority mailing will require additional postage.
Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, New York, 1936
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Early, but later printing. Clean, solid hardcover bound in two-toned full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($7.95) and presents well under fresh archival mylar despite chipping to the spine ends and mild rubbing along the folds. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid, well-preserved copy in jacket of this notable edition containing forty full page illustrations by Rockwell Kent; the text is the Cambridge with the Temple Notes, also complete indexes, a glossary of words and phrases, and a compact synopsis of each play. xviii, 1527pp. This book is over-sized and quite heavy, so it will likely require additional shipping charges on all priority and international orders.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - Very Good. 1936. 2 volumes, slipcased. Dark blue cloth with red leather spine labels (gilt-stamped). v. 1: xviii, 779 pages, 20 plates; v. 2: viii, 781-1527 pages, 20 plates. # 743 of 750 copies printed, signed by Kent on the limitation page. Some spotting in margins; very slight wera to cloth. Some edgewear and chipping at cormers of slipcase.
Published by Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1936
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition Thus/Limited Edition. First Edition Thus/Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Cambridge Edition text, edited by William Wright. Preface by Christopher Morley. Each play is illustrated with a full page plate by Rockwell Kent (titled at verso). Designed by A.P. Tedesco and printed at the Country Life Press. Infamous for a slipcase with paper seams (unreinforced, no cloth, etc) so prone to failure it is nearly impossible to find intact/undamaged. Noted flaws to the slipcase notwithstanding, a very handsome set. Light toning to vellum labels, bookplate of noted Kent collector Eliot Stanley at front pastedowns (printed by Anthoennsen Press), touch of toning at endpages (as typical), else tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows light/moderate shelf/edge wear, wear at fore-edge, most seams split, all seams reinforced with Japanese hinge paper at inside, several small bits of tape at upper seams, moisture spotting at top and onlay, else clean. Blue beveled cloth boards, vellum spine labels, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece(s), teg. 4to. 1527pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited numbered edition, this being 543 of 750, signed by Kent. Near Fine [Textblock Fine] in Good+ Slipcase.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Signed
Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Two oversize three-quarter blue leather hardcovers with gilt lettering and decorations to spine; five raised bands; blue cloth over boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; limiited edition 303/750; signed by Rockwell Kent at the beginning of volume one. Very good minus condition: spines toned to tan; the fading effects the leather on the boards too; a little dark staining to spine tails; edge wear, including some mouse nibbling; straight; the paper over the hinges is cracked but the hinges are holding well; pages excellent. Will require extra for shipping. Not available for international shipping. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.