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THE AMBASSADORS
de JAMES, Henry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Slight darkening to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Librería
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Slight darkening to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Leslie Saalburg. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by Leslie Saalburg. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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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- Librería
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 013480
- Título
- THE AMBASSADORS
- Autor
- JAMES, Henry
- Ilustrador
- Leslie Saalburg
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Slight darkening to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Limited Editions Club
- Lugar de publicación
- [New York]
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Palabras clave
- Signed, Limited Editions, American Literature, Fine Press, British Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Henry James
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 19th Century Literature;
Términos de venta
Charles Agvent
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Charles Agvent
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Sobre Charles Agvent
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- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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- Autógrafos y libros firmados Libros firmados
- Literatura de ficción Ficción por región Ficción norteamericana
- Literatura de ficción Literatura clásica
- Literatura de ficción Estudios literarios Crítica literaria
- Imprenta y editoriales Club de ediciones limitadas
- Literatura de ficción Ficción por época Literatura del siglo XIX
