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The Bostonians.
by James, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with black and gilt; the top edge tint is a dark shade; name and date written on the revers
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Modern Library, 1956.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with black and gilt; the top edge tint is a dark shade; name and date written on the reverse side of the front endpaper; a Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 16 in the Modern Library series. The only printed date is a 1956 copyright. Dating by the ML guide, this shows to be from Fall 1958. The list of ML titles on the verso of the dust jacket includes Balzac, Cousin Bette; does not include Auden, Selected Poems. The dust jacket rear panel style: i ; binding style: 8. Introduction by Irving Howe.
Synopsis
The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty protege of Olive's in the feminist movement.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068374
- Title
- The Bostonians.
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with black and gilt; the top edge tint is a dark shade; name and date written on the revers
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1956.
- Pages
- 464 pages + ads.
- Size
- 12mo (7.25 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
Biblio member since 2003
Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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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