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Their Wedding Journey
de Howells, William Dean
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Librería
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Chico, California, United States
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Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1895. One of the early novels, dating to 1872. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition Thus, which was LIMITED to 250 copies. Bound in vellum with decorations and ruling in gilt. Clean text; 399 pages; top-edge gilt, others rough-cut. Contemporary previous-owner bookplate on front paste-down. Corners are bumped and the spine has darkened a bit; head and tail of spine rubbed. The white vellum binding shows soiling; nponetheless, a lovely book, and uncommon.. Limited. Fine Binding. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Clifford Carleton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved narration; though I am persuaded that a skillful romancer could turn the courtship of Basil and Isabel March to excellent account. Fortunately for me, however, in attemp-ting to tell the reader of the wedding-journey of a newly married couple, no longer very young, to be sure, but still fresh in the light of their love, I shall have nothing to do but to talk of some ordinary traits of American life as these appeared to them, to speak a little of well-known and easily accessible places, to present now a bit of landscape and now a sketch of character. They had agreed to make their wedding-journey in the simplest and quietest way, and as it did not take place at once after their marriage, but some weeks later, it had all the desired charm of privacy from the outset. "How much better," said Isabel, "to go now, when nobody cares whether you go or stay, than to have started off upon a wretched wedding-breakfast, all tears and trousseau, and had people wanting to see you aboard the cars.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004375
- Título
- Their Wedding Journey
- Autor
- Howells, William Dean
- Ilustrador
- Clifford Carleton
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good (Plus)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Limited
- Editorial
- The Riverside Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge
- Fecha de publicación
- 1895
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos del vendedor
- American Literature;
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Sobre el vendedor
Quercus Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- First Edition
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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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
