Jacob's Ladder
by Train, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1935. 1st Edition (A). Hardcover. [a bit of shelfwear to top and bottom edges, teensy bumping and miniscule fraying at a couple of corners, very faint dampstain to bottom of text block (no trace of it inside the book); jacket browned and lightly stained at spine, a bit of paper loss at spine extremities and at top right corner of front panel]. Gentle social satire about the upward rise of Jacob Hiram Bates, who gets his entrepreneurial start in a small Vermont village as a seller of patent medicine for dogs (Bates Animal Elixir), and eventually winds up "as purveyor of expensive cosmetics to the socially elite, and the possessor of a glittering chateau on Long Island." Not to worry, though, he's "a completely likable person," and even though there's a lot of nonsense taking place around him (generated by "his rather chuckle-headed children" and the social arbiter that he hires to assist him and his family up the ladder of society), in the end "he emerges very much the same simple-minded, warm-hearted person that he was when the ascent began." (This is Arthur Train, after all, not Nathanael West.) .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21325
- Title
- Jacob's Ladder
- Author
- Train, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dj
- Edition
- 1st Edition (A)
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Long Island, Social Climbing, Comic Novel, Patent Medicines
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