Author: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Title: The Comedies of Shakespeare in Two Volumes (Modern Library #2. 5 & 2. 6a)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1953 & c.1957]. Hardcover. A two-volume Modern Library set presenting all of William Shakespeare's comedies. List of cast of characters precedes each play. End notes and comprehensive glossary at rear of volume two. This set is part of the 6-volume Modern Library complete plays and poems of William Shakespeare. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 367 & 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 & c.1957 (no publication dates appear in books). ML #2.5 & 2.6a. --- A generally well-preserved set: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with bumped cover corners to vol. 1 & prior owner's sticker to front paste-down of v.2. V.1 dust jacket is price-clipped, v.2 is not ($1.65); both jackets with small tape remnant to flaps, mild chips and tears to extremities, otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrappers.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); [8], 4-545, [9], 550-1101, [8, ads] pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Shakespeare
Price: US$ 34.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 89233