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Comic Persuasion: Moral Structure in British Comedy from Shakespeare to Stoppard
by Rayner, Alice
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520059174
- ISBN 13
- 9780520059177
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Berkley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x, 170pp. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Top text block edge very lightly foxed. Front free endpaper has a lender's barcode held in place with tape and a lending sheet, rear free endpaper has lender's bookplate; copyright page has lender's stamp and small pen note. Internally very neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket in a Brodart style sleeve, shelf number sticker on spine heel.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021027
- Title
- Comic Persuasion: Moral Structure in British Comedy from Shakespeare to Stoppard
- Author
- Rayner, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520059174
- ISBN 13
- 9780520059177
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkley, CA, USA
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Comedy
- X weight
- 0 kg
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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