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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prospectus. 4to. Folded Leaf, [4 pp.], Letterpress on Wove Paper, Illustration, Good with marginal tears, else Very Good.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Dryden, John. The Dramatic Works. The Nonesuch Press. First English edition, London, 1931.
Price: US$298.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Six vols. England, on stage, during the Restoration: complete texts of thirty plays and dialogues; edited by Montague Summers with notes, introduction, chronology; #583/750 numbered copies (total edition 800). Original cloth and marbled boards. Foxing to foredges, covers rubbed, spines sunned. Very good. The six vols.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Dryden,John. Dryden:The Dramatic Works (6 Volumes). The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$331.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited:Montague Summers.Limited Edition[750 Standard Sets.Number:242].Marbled Paper Boards.Gilt Titles:spine[s].Top Edge[s] Gilt[Tarnished].Some minor edgewear.No Browning or Foxing.Fading[discolouration] to spines only.Previous Owners Insc.ffep[Vol 1-6].Small Booksellers Label inside crnr of front cover[Vol 1 only].Note:Heavy Set may require extra postage
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
(Nonesuch Press) Dryden, John. The Dramatic Works. Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: One of 750 sets. 6 vols. 4to. Vols. I-II published Dec. 1931, Vols. III-IV published Feb. 1932, and Vols. V-VI published May 1932. Dreyfus 80 Original quarter green buckram, t.e.g. Spines lightly sunned, edges rubbed, else very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$397.50 + shipping
Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 6 vols, complete. Near Fine unworn condition (see photos). Appears unread. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Uniformly bound in the original attractive marbled boards with green cloth spines stamped in shiny gold. Spines are still a pleasing green -- only very slightly sun-faded (see photo) -- much less than usual for this set which is often seen with spines sunned to an ugly brown. Each volume has long been protected by a homemade clear plastic dust jacket -- all of which have done their job well resulting in NO fraying and almost NO rubbing. There are faint shadows at the corners of the front free endpapers from tape adhesive offset (minor -- see photo). Otherwise all pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked -- uncut and unopened, apparently never read. NO foxing. NO owner's name or bookplate. Each volume measures 6.75" wide by 10.25" tall. This is number 457 of 750 standard sets (another 50 having been being printed on Van Gelder paper). Volumes I-II were published in 1931; Volumes III-VI in 1932. cxxxvi, 460pp; [iv], 532pp; [iv], 595pp; [iv], 603pp; [iv], 545pp; [iv], 594pp. Edited, and with notes by Montague Summers. Top gilt edges are dusty. Dreyfus 80: "The first complete and critical edition of Dryden's plays, published to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth." [A HISTORY OF THE NONESUCH PRESS]. d' A. Smith B25 [Montague Summers bibliography]. "Francis [Meynell] revised the format, dropping the long esses, making an easier narrower page." -- Richard Garnett [THE PRIVATE LIBRARY, Winter 1996]. Shipping for this large, heavy 6 vol. set is most economical by MEDIA MAIL (you only pay our standard charge for 1 volume; and we ship the other 5 vols at no extra cost). Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater expense. First edition: Limited to 750. Hardcover. Near Fine condition. 6 vols: 3,485 total pages.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.