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Portraits from Life
by Ford Madox Ford
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY FORD MADOX FORD on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of the 1937 1st edition. Tight and VG, with light abrading along the rear panel's top-edge and minor bumping to the tips. And in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light rubbing and creasing along the spine and fore-edges. Quarto, "Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D.H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W.H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, Algernon Charles Swinburne"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20386
- Title
- Portraits from Life
- Author
- Ford Madox Ford
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- rare literary biography, rare literary criticism, rare Ford Madox Ford, signed Ford Madox Ford
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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