Author: IBSEN, HENRIK
Title: Lady Inger of Ostraat / Love's Comedy / the League of Youth (Everyman's Library #729)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1915]. Hardcover. An undated, likely first Everyman's Library edition, 1915, presenting three plays by the noted Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. They include: "Lady Inger of Ostraat," "Love's Comedy," and "The League of Youth." Translated, with an introduction, by R. Farquharson Sharp. Number 729 in Everyman's Library Poetry and the Drama series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full olive ribbed cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With acidic staining to front and rear endpapers, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy; however the spine's gilding is not centered and wraps slightly around toward the front joint. (This work scarce in this edition.); 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xiii, 286 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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