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Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 1907. First edition thus. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. First World's Classics edition. Minor tanning to otherwise clear pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are lightly cracked but boards remain firmly attached. Attached bookmark is frayed at the end. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Slightly scratched to rear. Gilt is very dulled and worn.
Synopsis
Agnes Grey is a novel written by the English author Anne Brontë and first published in 1847. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Anne Brontë's own experiences. It was her first novel. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters."
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715179722BDB
- Title
- Agnes Grey
- Author
- Anne Bronte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1907
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- First Edition
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