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Five Plays: Available Copies
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Five Plays by Ben Johnson by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press (1953)
Seller: Basement Seller 101 (Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.90
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $12.90
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Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and The Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; [and] The Lost Silk Hat. by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA (1917)
Seller: JAC Books (Cortland, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $8.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $13.00
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA. Hardcover, 116 pp. Copyright page gives 1914 date but 1917 is on title page. Prevous owner's light name stamp on front free endpaper. Wear (mouse nibbles?) at bottom right of boards. Otherwise a very good, tight (unread?) copy of five fantasy plays by an author who strongly influenced Lovecraft.
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Five Plays (The Modern Drama Series) by Dunsany, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron); Bjorkman, Edwin (editor)
Hardcover
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Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company (1919)
Seller: Arundel Books (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $8.00
Shipping: $5.75
TOTAL Cost: $13.75
Original red cloth stamped in gilt (gilt dull, some wear; ink gift inscription). xii, [2], 116 pages. Contains 'The Gods of the Mountain', 'The Golden Doom', 'King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior', 'The Glittering Gate' and 'The Lost Silk Hat'; introduction by Bjorkman. Originally published in Great Britain in 1914 (see Currey, page 169). Wear on the edges.
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Five Plays by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
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Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, Boston (1917)
Seller: Faith In Print (cumming, GA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $11.00
Shipping: $3.50
TOTAL Cost: $14.50
good clean tight hardback with only very light overall wear. tightly bound. clean maroon boards with only very light edge rubbing. lettering on spine has darkened and is hard to read. pages clean and unmarked. Plays include "The Gods of the Mountain", "The Golden Doom", King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior", "The Glittering Gate", and "The Lost Silk Hat". 116 pages.
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FIVE PLAYS. by Dunsany, Lord.
Hardcover
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Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley, NY ()
Seller: Legacy Books (Louisville, KY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Poor
Book Price: $7.50
Shipping: $7.50
TOTAL Cost: $15.00
1914, 12mo, xii, 116pp. Covers well worn, marginal notes on several pages, dampstaining to about the first twenty pages, not affecting text. Reading copy. Includes: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat.
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Five Plays by Plunkett, Edward (Lord Dunsany)
Hardcover
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Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Boston (1917)
Seller: Matthew's Books (Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $15.50
12mo 116pp. part of The Modern Drama Series (edited by Edwin Bjorkman). includes: The Gods of the Mountain / The Golden Doom / King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior / The Glittering Gate / The Lost Silk Hat. #03140. Book G: scuffs and bumps to corners, spine sunned, shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
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FIVE PLAYS Gods of the Mountain; Golden Doom; King Argimenes & the Unknown Warrior; Glittering Gate; and The Lost Silk Hat by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA (1922)
Seller: Riverow Bookshop (Owego, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $12.50
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $19.00
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1922. . Cloth(Hrdcvr). Gods of the Mountain; Golden Doom; King Argimenes & the Unknown Warrior; Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat . Sm 8vo., 116 pp, pages yellowed a bit, musky scent, some penciling pages 1-38, cover worn some, corners bumped, writing on ffe .
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FIVE PLAYS by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA (1916)
Seller: Riverow Bookshop (Owego, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $15.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $21.50
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1916. . Cloth. Gods of the Mountain; Golden Doom; King Argimenes & the Unknown Warrior; Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat . Sm 8vo., 116 pp., rubbed, writing on ffe .
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Five Plays (Modern Drama Series) by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
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Publisher: Little Brown ()
Seller: Wonder Book (Frederick, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $21.83
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TOTAL Cost: $21.83
Good condition. No Dust Jacket Modern Drama Series. () A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Five Plays by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
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Publisher: Grant Richards (1922)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $16.31
Shipping: $6.24
TOTAL Cost: $22.55
1922. Reprinted. 111 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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Five Plays (in the notes) by DUNSANY, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston (1927)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $23.50
Later. Very good plus/ lettering on spine is barely legible. Plays are: The Gods of The Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and The Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, and The Lost Silk Hat.
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The Modern Drama Series: Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argim n s and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, The Lost Silk Hat by DUNSANY, Lord. Edited by Edwin Bj
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company ()
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books (Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $24.99
No dust jacket, soe shelf wear to corners of cover. Hardback, 116 pages, no highlighting or underlining.
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Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, and The Lost Silk Hat (The Modern Drama Series) by DUNSANY, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston (1919)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $25.50
Later printing. Spine darkened, spine ends with short tears, very good.
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