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Washington Square (Modern Library #269.1)
by JAMES, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A shorter novel by Henry James (1843-1916), centered around the relationship between an erudite New York physician and his daughter, in a Modern Library reprint edition. With an introduction by Clifton Fadiman. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 362 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #269.1. --- A sound copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with some dulling to cover & sound gilding. Fair-only price-clipped dust jacket with significant tears and chipping, green dot sticker to spine and a large chip to lower spine area; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xii, 291 pages .
Synopsis
With a new afterword by Michael CunninghamWhat Catherine Sloper lacks in brains and beauty, she makes up for by being "very good." The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win her hand-even if it means pretending that he loves the homely ingenue, and cares nothing for her opulent wealth.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84497
- Title
- Washington Square (Modern Library #269.1)
- Author
- JAMES, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1952]
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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