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Alice Adams
de Tarkington, Booth
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/FACSIMILE - Fine
- Librería
-
San Jose, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Doubleday, 1921-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/FACSIMILE - Fine. Signed. Second state with "why you" in proper sequence on page 419. Laid in is a clipped piece of paper, SIGNED by Booth Tarkington. The volume is edge rubbed, bumped at the spine ends and corners, has some soiling to front panel, an ink name on the front endpaper, and a picture of Booth Tarkington pasted to the front pastedown. Comes with a fine, mylar sleeved, facsimile dust jacket. Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Sinopsis
This compelling satire details irresistible characteristics of social status in a small Midwestern town. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their two children are members of the lower middle-class. Their daughter, Alice, wrestles with this economic classification and attempts to make the society folk of the town appreciate her. Because Alice has no social influence nor wealth and her presence is held in disregard by prospective suitors, Mrs. Adams tries to improve the situation by persuading her husband to leave a job he's held all his life and to establish a new career. After much apprehension and in possession of a glue formula stolen from his previous employer, he resigns his mediocre but satisfying employment which puts him in a predicament that leads to his professional downfall. Tarkington's understanding of class rivalries, social condescension, and financial avarice is evident in this tale where his main point indicates that in every joyless moment hope, though unexpected, is attainable. He illustrates how the Adams' laborious efforts are ultimately unsuccessful. Any intrusion by Alice and her mother on the upper class is unlikely and Tarkington's depiction of such is secretly amusing.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Trilby & Co. Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 13052101
- Título
- Alice Adams
- Autor
- Tarkington, Booth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FACSIMILE - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Doubleday
- Fecha de publicación
- 1921-06-01
- Palabras clave
- first edition|signed
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Trilby & Co. Books
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San Jose, California
Sobre Trilby & Co. Books
Trilby & Co. Books is located in Northern California. The company was founded years ago by a Shetland Sheepdog named Trilby. Trilby's message to her family was brief and direct - the sale of books would increase disposable income and improve the quality of provisions in her food dish. My name is McTavish (picture above). I am the current CEO of this company, and I approve of her message. Oh, by the way, my speciality is literature, with an emphasis on first editions and signed books.
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- Spine
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
