ETHAN FROME
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, 195 pages. In Good plus condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Boards have bending to spine edges and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning and damp staining to pages near tail edge of gutter. Second issue indicated by no gilt on page edges and "wearily" on page 135 not broken. lacking dust jacket. Shelved Room A. 1373005. Special Collections.
Synopsis
Ethan Frome is a novel that was published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993.
Reviews
On Dec 7 2004, Pazzo Books said:
Other than an unmitigated desire to smack the whiny lady upstairs, Ethan Frome had virtually no impact on me. While most books I really detest are extremely long, Wharton managed to flip the switch in what is basically a novella. Impressive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1373005
- Title
- ETHAN FROME
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Issue
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...