Charles scribners sons hudson river editions ny (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Reprint. Short tears at dj edges, at least one of which is rough and creased and minor losses; sticker pull/ghost on front pastedown; mark on ffep. Book.

Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. shadow from old sticker on front, bit of suntanning, small edge tear on front (half inch), not price clipped(no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line) of this high quality book club edition (real cloth ~indent rear cover bottom near spine). xiv+361p. "Hudson River Editions are a series of reprints of outstanding standard titles from our backlist. They include classic works of fiction, reference, biography, history, religion and philosophy, literary criticism, and natural and social sciences, as well as books for young readers. Each volume is bound in sturdy cloth, with complete reinforcement and foil stamping ~ a durable binding for longlasting works." ~ EDITH WHARTON is much and vaguely associated with "old New York." But it was, in fact, only in the wake of the First World War that the New York society she had been born into and in which she had passed her adolescence and early married years became, in her view, old New York. Tbe Age of Innocence (finished in 1920) is her reminiscent and shrewdly ambivalent survey of her own old New York, and it is a novel in which perspective~the long gaze backward across the ruins of time~is everything. It is certainly one of the very best of her many novels (it is one of the few really first~class works of fiction to win the Pulitzer Prize, as it did in 1921).…