Prose Dramas: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (1904 Authorized English Edition)


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Condition: ["Very Good"]

Format: Hardcover

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Sale price$125.00

Description

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Title: Prose Dramas: Ghosts; An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck

Edition: Authorized English Edition, edited by William Archer; translations by William Archer, Mrs. E. Marx-Aveling, and Mrs. F. E. Archer.

Publication: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. (London) and Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York), 1904.

Binding: Original dark green cloth with gilt titling and Ibsen’s facsimile signature; top edge trimmed; unillustrated.

Condition: Very Good. Clean, firm binding; gilt still present on cover; light rubbing and a few small spots to cloth; interiors clean and unmarked.


About this edition
A handsome early 20th-century printing of three cornerstone Ibsen dramas—Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and The Wild Duck—in the influential English versions overseen by critic and translator William Archer. Jointly issued by Walter Scott in London and Scribner’s in New York, this “Authorized English Edition” reflects Ibsen’s early reception in the Anglophone world and remains prized by theatre and literature collectors.

Why we love it
• Early authorized English issue with Archer’s involvement
• Attractive publisher’s cloth with gilt
• Three of Ibsen’s most performed and taught plays in one volume

Protected and shipped with care in an archival sleeve and sturdy box.

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