His Own People.
by TARKINGTON, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Large (but elegant) ink signature on half-title; a very good copy, or better, with very minor wear at extremities.
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday, Page & Co.,, 1907.. First edition.. publisher's red decorated cloth.. Large (but elegant) ink signature on half-title; a very good copy, or better, with very minor wear at extremities. . 8vo,. Illustrated.
Synopsis
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band (crustacean-like in costume, and therefore well within the picture) has sheathed its flying tentacles and withdrawn by dim processes, the tea-drinkers all float out through the doors, instead of bubbling up and away through the filmy roof.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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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12012
- Title
- His Own People.
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's red decorated cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used - Large (but elegant) ink signature on half-title; a very good copy, or better, with very minor wear at extremities.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1907.
- Pages
- 150 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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About the Seller
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Specializing in modern first editions since 1978. Fine and rare books in all fields.
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