"The Goldfish": Being the Confessions of a Successful Man
by Train, Arthur
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Frontis is a black and white illustration of Arthur Train. Beautiful green leatherette with gilt (faded) lettering on the spine and embossed lettering on the front board. 348 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Deckle page edges. "I was fifty years old to-day. Half a century has hurried by since I first lay in my mother's wondering arms. To be sure, I am not old; but I can no longer deceive myself into believing that I am still young. After all, the illusion of youth is a mental habit consciously encouraged to defy and face down the reality of age......"----from Chapter 1 (Myself).. Reprint (1921). Green Leatherette. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039783
- Title
- "The Goldfish": Being the Confessions of a Successful Man
- Author
- Train, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint (1921)
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- FICTION
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Conover Books
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- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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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