SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS
W. ROBERTSON DAVIES
Published by DENT & SONS, 1939
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* CONDITION : Used - Good
OTHER * The boards are heavily worn with scuffed and dent to the edges and corners. The spine is worn and discoloured with small rips top and bottom. Binding is firm. The pages are tanned, with a name written and another printed on the ffep. This book has 208 pages. All in all a nice example of this hard to find book. Seller Inventory # 30.07.25/KH/505/SHELF530/20.06.25A1relis
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Title: SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS
Publisher: DENT & SONS
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth boards lightly worn, corners rubbed w/ slight fraying of cloth in bottom right corner of front board, creased in top right corner of front board and bottom of rear, slight flecked staining to front board, shelving-worn at base of spine; Pages age-toned, light spotting to edges and endpapers, top-edge sprayed dark blue, offsetting on endpapers and pages 30-31 & 106-107, no ownership marks or annotation, B&W plates; Various newspaper clippings related to text laid in rear; Binding tight. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 210 pages. Seller Inventory # 51306
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SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1939
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Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 8 1/2 by 6 inches, 207 pages, notes, index. Ex library, np plastic jacket, I have removed most of the spine label paper fragment remaining. Gilt stamp of Stockton Public Library on front cover. Binding has wear to corners and spine ends. Outer rear hinge split, re-glued and now tight. Front inner hinge also previously cracked, re-glued and now tight. Rear hinge ok. Typical library marks, otherwise pages clean. all plates present. I will not ship this book overseas. Seller Inventory # 23548
Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
Russell & Russell, New York, 1964
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition thus. 8vo. [vii], 207 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding, gilt lettering, no jacket, ex-library, else good copy. (80699). Seller Inventory # 8000
Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Compass Books, Devon, United Kingdom
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue boards with a little rubbing to gilt lettering on spine, rubbing to corners, edges and hinges, bumped corners, tanned page edges and spotting to eps. The very top corner of the loose fep has been removed. Seller Inventory # 015057
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. vii, 207 p. 23 cm. 10 b&w plates. Cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine missing and the remaining chipped panels are held together with tape. Book spine has crease and softened ends. Signatures on front endpaper. 4 p. advertising leaflet and order form included. An occasional ink mark. Hole in interior rear hinge. The rare first edition of Robertson Davies' first book. Davies left Canada to study at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a BLitt degree in 1938. The next year he published this book, his thesis. "The object of this study is to demonstrate the way in which the Shakespearian women's roles are written to exploit fully the capacity of the boy actors for easy and febrile emotion without demanding the greater range of passion which only time and experience can bring" (p. 27). Seller Inventory # 151176
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SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1939
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First Edition
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First U.K. 208 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers a little yellowed. Previous owner's bookplate on the fep. Illustrated with 8 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Embossed design on the upper cover. Light wear on corners, head/tail of spine. White DJ with illustrations and blue titles. Spine and edges darkened. One inch chip at head of spine. Small chips and tears on the corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG/GOOD-. Book. Seller Inventory # 209624
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
London J. M. Dent & Sons Limited 1939, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Condition: fine. 1st Edition. vii,207,[1]pp. Octavo. 8 plates (including frontispiece). Original cobalt blue cloth, blue top edge; in rare price clipped illustrated dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, with minor chipping head and foot of spine, and minor dampstains on spine; name on front free endpaper. Author's first book on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Much of the production was pulped for the war effort, probably less then 500-600 copies survived (according to the author). Seller Inventory # 118793
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors.
Published by
London J.M. Dent, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
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First edition; 8vo; 9 black and white plates, including frontispiece, text block slightly age-toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark blue top stain, light rubbing to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with loss, a few small closed tears and creases along top edge, evidence of sticker removed from rear panel affecting text, vertical line in pencil close to spine; a very good clean copy overall. The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 109292
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Published by
London J. M. Dent & Sons Limited 1939, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Condition: very good. 1st Edition. vii,207,[1]pp. Octavo. Rich blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and stamped decoration on front cover. Very light wear to ends of spine and corners. Previous owners name on front free endpaper in blue ink. Some foxing on the page before the frontis and the title page. B.W frontis showing Edward Kynaston, the last of the boy actors. Contains 8 B/W plates in very good condition with only some minor wrinkling. Light foxing on a couple of pages throughout- otherwise a clean and tight copy. In RARE dust jacket, price clipped. Dust jacket is discoloured at spine and edges with some professional restoration done, including to a 4" closed tear down front of dust jacket. A lovely copy. very good Davies?first book, his Oxford honours thesis, reflects his early and abiding interest in play-acting and illusion. Very rare especially in dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 104602
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SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS.
Published by
J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd. London. 1939, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of the author's first book. 1st printing. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Illustrated with 8 mono plates. Original blue cloth with blind stamped device to upper board, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue. With the rare dustjacket. Spine a little dull but a very good copy in the nicked and mildly tanned dustjacket with a single tiny chip at the bottom rear hinge corner. --- Many copies were pulped during the war making this a scarce title. In a letter to a collector written in 1951 Davies reported having no spare copies of this book and that his best guess was that no more than 600 were in existence. Seller Inventory # 10892
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