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The Midnight Folk
de Masefield, John
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/No Jacket
- Librería
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First printing (Same date on TP and CP; states Published November, 1927 with no additional printings listed). Violet cloth with blindstamped titles on the front board and gilt titles on the spine. Top edge stained violet. Fore edge untrimmed. The front board is stained. Light-to-moderate shelfwear. Small old-fashioned bookseller sticker on the rear pastedown. Otherwise a fine, unmarked copy in a tight binding.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Sinopsis
John Masefield (1878-1967) was born in Herefordshire, England. After being orphaned at an early age, he was sent to sea aboard the school-ship HMS Conway in preparation for a naval career. Masefield’s apprenticeship was disastrous—he was classified as a Distressed British Seaman after a voyage around Cape Horn—and he soon left the ship. Arrangements were then made for him to join another ship in New York. But Masefield had other plans: he deserted ship vowing “to be a writer, come what might.” At seventeen Masefield was living as a vagrant in America. He found work as a bar hand but eventually secured employment at a carpet factory. Thinking that journalism might allow him to write for a living, Masefield returned to England in 1897. Masefield’s first volume of oetry, Salt-Water Ballads , was published in 1902, however, it was not until the publication of The Everlasting Mercy in 1911 that he made his mark on the literary scene. The success of his second book was followed by the publication of several long narrative poems, including Dauber (1914) and Reynard the Fox (1919). With the outbreak of the war, Masefield became an orderly at a hospital in France. He also took charge of a motorboat ambulance service at Gallipoli in 1915. After the Allied failure there, Masefield visited America and undertook a series of lectures in support of the war effort. IN 1930 he was appointed Poet Laureate, and five years later the much-loved Masefield was awarded the Order of Merit. He died on May 12, 1967, and his ashes were interred in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. The two Kay Harker books, The Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights (1935), are Masefield’s lasting contribution to children’s fantasy literature. The Box of Delights is now an established Christmas favourite and as much a part of the season as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol . Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005962
- Título
- The Midnight Folk
- Autor
- Masefield, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1927
- Palabras clave
- Young adult Fiction Collectible
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Young Adult;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Andover, Massachusetts
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Glosario
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
