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Wuthering Heights (Modern Library #106.2)
by BRONTË, Emily
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1962]. Hardcover. Emily Brontë's cherished romance novel in a Modern Library reprint edition. This is the story of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two upper class English families and turmoil surrounding the Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. This work originally published under the author's Ellis Bell pseudonym, with an introduction by Royal A. Gettman, and a biographical notice & an editor's preface by Charlotte Brontë, writing under her Currer Bell pseudonym. Includes woodcut illustrations at chapter heads by Fritz Eichenberg. Volume wrapped in jacket with illustration by Paul Galdone. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #106.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with prior owner's sticker affixed to front paste-down. Note: A loosened front hinge has been repaired on this item. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with loss of outer skin to area of front cover center, very light chafing to edges (especially at spine ends) else about Very Good-; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxxii, 400 pages .
Synopsis
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers (as an adjective, Wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88048
- Title
- Wuthering Heights (Modern Library #106.2)
- Author
- BRONTË, Emily
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1962]
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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