His Family
by Poole, Ernest; Illustrated by Steven H. Stroud
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good+. Hardcover with gilt stamped full blue leather boards, 1979, octavo, 299pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to edges of boards, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, blindstamp to front endpaper, edges of endpapers gently sunned, text clean and unmarked, with handsome gilt to edges of text block. No DJ.
Synopsis
His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B42174
- Title
- His Family
- Author
- Poole, Ernest; Illustrated by Steven H. Stroud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Literature
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
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