The Ambassadors
de James, Henry
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Aceptable/No Jacket (as issued)
- Librería
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Norwalk, Conn: Heritage Press, 1963. Very nice copy in black cloth with gold lettering and design on spine. Unmarked, tight and square. Slipcase nearfine. . Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Illus. by Leslie Saalburg. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Sinopsis
Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business. Mrs. Newsome is an invalid and cannot go to Paris to fetch her son herself, so she employs Lambert Strether and Sarah Pocock to return Chad to Massachusetts. Sarah has been to Paris before and is aware of its attractiveness, so her determination to succeed in this task is fixed and uncompromising. Strether is of later middle age, however, and inspired by the fairytale of a beautiful life in Europe. Mrs. Newsome has promised to marry Strether if he can bring Chad home. Strether is completely enamored by the Parisian character and its enchantments and has a difficult time completing his mission. The drama of reestablishing Chad in business in America and of coming to terms with the mythological romance of France leaves the reader unbalanced, trying to recover equilibrium in the real world. Those involved with Chad's rescue are compelled to recognize the deep intimacies of personal attachment and the accepted proprieties of direct consequence. The success and failures of such an undertaking are unpredictable. The result of every character's attempt to steer Chad rightly is a strange conglomeration of role reversal, fantasy, and truth.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 013121
- Título
- The Ambassadors
- Autor
- James, Henry
- Ilustrador
- Leslie Saalburg
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Heritage Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, Conn
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Tamaño
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classic Authors;
Términos de venta
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
Sobre Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
