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The Custom of the Country
de WHARTON, Edith
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fair
- Librería
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. First edition. Early owner's name on the front fly, else fine in a fair only example of the rare dustwrapper with considerable chipping, and a horizontal strip of paper removed from the spine (eliminating no spine text from the original). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with leather spine label. A very uncommon jacketed copy of a major novel. *Garrison* A21.1.a.
Sinopsis
Wharton's glittering satire of the newly affluent in Old New YorkConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior decor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine's marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.*This new edition features a new introduction and explanatory notes and reset text
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Detalles
- Librería
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 282053
- Título
- The Custom of the Country
- Autor
- WHARTON, Edith
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1913
- Palabras clave
- VintageDustjackets, AmerLit20thCent
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
