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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
de Joseph Conrad
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Acceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
John Grant, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to free endpapers. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.
Sinopsis
It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, Chance was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'.
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- Librería
- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1657532470ADA
- Título
- Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
- Autor
- Joseph Conrad
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- John Grant
- Fecha de publicación
- 1925
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
