The Spark
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardback. Blue cloth boards, a touch rubbed on corners, slight bumping to top right corner of front board, lightly sunned down spine, title card on spine disintegrating w/ tarnished gilt lettering, gilt lettering on front bright; Pages lightly age-toned, top-edge dusty, illustrated endpapers, slight offsetting on half-title, no ownership marks; Binding tight. Set in the 1860s, Edith Wharton's novel 'The Spark' is one of five examining the social customs of Old New York, revolving around upper-class society from the 1840s-70s. ; The Sixties; 5.25 x 7.5"; 110 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52357
- Title
- The Spark
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Illustrator
- E. C. Caswell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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