His Own People
de Tarkington, Booth
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ (Textblock Fine). No DJ.
- Librería
-
Portland, Maine, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ (Textblock Fine). No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's eighth book. Overall, a handsome copy of this well-loved work. Very minor shelf/edge wear, small ink mark at front hinge near heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, cream ink label, color pictorial endpages. Small 8vo. 150pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).
Sinopsis
From the book:The glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Conti-nental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed. They appear, however, to be unaware of their condition; even the ladies, most like anemones of that gay assembly, do not seem to know it; and when the Hungarian band (crustacean-like in costume, and therefore well within the picture) has sheathed its flying tentacles and withdrawn by dim processes, the tea-drinkers all float out through the doors, instead of bubbling up and away through the filmy roof. In truth, some such exit as that was imagined for them by a young man who remained in the aquarium after they had all gone, late one afternoon of last winter. They had been marvelous enough, and to him could have seemed little more so had they made such a departure. He could almost have gone that way himself, so charged was he with the uplift of his belief that, in spite of the brilliant strangeness of the hour just past, he had been no fish out of water.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Lux Mentis, Booksellers
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4118
- Título
- His Own People
- Autor
- Tarkington, Booth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ (Textblock Fine). No DJ.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Doubleday Page
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1907
- Palabras clave
- Fiction
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- First Edition
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
