Plays from Turtleman Used Books

Deep red fabric cover with gilt print on the spine and gilt decoration on the front. Some wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. Back cover has a crease. A hinge split has developed where the glued part meets the stitched part, just before the frontispiece. Gift inscription on the front endpaper, dated 1914. Pages… Read more about this item

Book shows little wear. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, an accumulation of spots, and three tears, two of which are under 5 mm while the third, located at the top of the rear flap fold is about 2.5 cm. This book was released after the first performances of the play at the Morosco Theatre in 1966 and includes… Read more about this item

The covers are paper and leather with lots of wear. Leather over spine shows some wear but remains intact, while the leather over the corners is worn through in three of four. Decorative endpapers. Page ends are decorated but darkened to be almost indistinguishable. Many illustrations in the form of etchings of actors in their Shakespearian… Read more about this item

We have here a 12-volume set of the complete works of Henrik Ibsen, translated into English, published in 1908. All show very little wear other than being quite sun-faded over the spines. The leather covers are still smooth and intact, with a lovely oxblood shade and a bright gilt shield with the title information. The spines feel more like suede… Read more about this item

Although it says in the title that the series is twelve volumes, there is also an index, giving a total of thirteen volumes. The covers are deep red fabric covered boards with leather over the spine. The wear is almost all in that leather area where there has been damage at the top, and/or bottom of some of the spines… Read more about this item

Very little wear to the book. Bright red fabric covered boards with gitl print on the spine. Pages are clean, tight and intact. Contains many photographs and illustrations, a few fully intact fold-outs in color. Dust jacket has a bit of wear along the edges, both top and bottom. Published in the former Soviet Union. Stated first printing for this… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Appears to be a first edition. A play with music by the great poet. Published posthumously. Little wear. Pages clean, tight and intact.

Small amount of wear, including a few chips along the edges and at the corners, a crease across the lower corner of the back cover, and some 3-D sketches of cube on the front cover. Owner's name inside front cover. Pages are clean, tight and a bit yellow, and the spine has no creases. This book offers the stories of… Read more about this item

Green cloth cover, no dust jacket. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Contains introduction, the play, notes and five appendices. Recently, an estate sale yielded a number of books originally owned by a woman in England during the first two decades of the 20th century. All are marked with the name of Gertrude (or G.) Pritchard. … Read more about this item

Cover shows a lot of wear, including bent corners, three spine creases, and rubs and chips at the edges. Pages are clean and tight, with no margin notes and very little underlining. The play is offered with side-by-side notes, a page of text on the left and a corresponding page of notes and definitions on the right. … Read more about this item

Thin trade paperback. Little wear. 153 pages, with the preface running from page 9 to page 49 before the play actually begins.

Cover has some creases, spine has one, too. 443 pages are clean, tight and mostly unmarked. Some marks on the table of contents and some notes inside the rear cover. Contains eight complete plays (Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Hippolytus, King Lear, Ghosts, Miss Julie, On Baile's Strand, and Desire Under the Elms), plus six essays on… Read more about this item

An unabridged reprint of Ibsen's most acclaimed and oft performed play. Trae paperback, 72 pages. Very little wear. In English. (If you want more of Ibsen's work, and happen to read German, check out the five volume set listed as CS00682 in this bookstore.)

Multivolume (5) set. In German, published in Berlin in 1908. A translation: The Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, total output in five volumes. It also notes: einzige autorisierte deutsche ausgabe, in other words, Only Authorized German Edition. Minor shelf wear, still in excellent shape after 113 years. The first volume begins with a two page… Read more about this item