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The Reef
by Edith Wharton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Syndicate Publishing Co, 1912. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 367 pages. Illustrated jacket over red cloth with gilt titles to spine and front. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Intense foxing and slight tearing to front endpaper. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. Rear hinge slightly cracked and insect nibbled. Text block edges intensely scratched and rubbed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Heavy rubbing to edges. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright. Clipped jacket has some edgewear, chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Jacket intensely foxed overall. Substantial yellowed tape repairs. Sticker trace to spine.
Synopsis
The Reef, a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks the hypocrisies of New York society of which author Edith Wharton had long been a member, was praised by contemporaries as her best work since Ethan Frome. The novel challenged the morality of the times in the person of George Darrow, a diplomat who drifts into an affair with another woman after his proposal of marriage to widow Anna Leath receives a cool response.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656680391ADA
- Title
- The Reef
- Author
- Edith Wharton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Syndicate Publishing Co
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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