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Adam's Breed.
by HALL, Radclyffe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1926. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Mr & Mrs Edgar Sessions, in memory of a lovely day, from the Author Radclyffe Hall, July 15th 1926". The recipients were likely Edgar Sessions (1843-1934) and his wife, Sylvia Louise Bentley (1854-1944), who lived for many years in Graham, Arizona. Works by Hall are scarce inscribed. Hall's novels "reflect in varying degrees her deep sense of being a social outsider and, increasingly, demonstrate her preoccupation with a search for spiritual self-knowledge through suffering and denial... Adam's Breed, a best-seller which also won two prestigious literary prizes, the Femina Vie Heureuse and James Tait Black (only E. M. Forster's A Passage to India had previously achieved this 'double'), marked the peak of her career" (ODNB). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. Spine slightly cocked, a few small marks to cloth, extremities bumped and rubbed, cracked at gutter before first gathering. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162296
- Title
- Adam's Breed.
- Author
- HALL, Radclyffe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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,...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
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