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The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
by George Santayana
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$25.05NZ$17.53
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About This Item
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1936. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated/same date but no "A". Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; small suntanned spot at head; bumped tail; light shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($2.75); missing small pieces at head, tail, tips, and along the top edge of the rear panel; suntoned spine. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. 602 pp 8vo. This work of fiction is destined to stand among the greatest of all American novels and to live as an unequaled picture of our civilization picture of our civilization from the 1890s to the close of the Great War. It is American life mostly in New England as seen through the eyes of a young man who grew up in those swiftly changing years that brought the epoch to a close. The protagonist, Oliver Alden, has a life that is interwoven with Satayana's autobiographical reminiscences, and composes a spiritual landscape of the Puritan New England scene. Clear-cut descriptions of life in America and abroad. A clean very presentable in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012690
- Title
- The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
- Author
- George Santayana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fictional memoir, New England, Harvard, Spain, American Life, Puritan, Oliver Alden, World War I, Great War, boyhood, education, Europe, Life in Europe, Spanish ancestry,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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