The Awkward Age
by James, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York NY: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1899 Harper & Borthers FIRST Edition in VG condition. With deep maroon boards and bright gilt lettering on the cover and rear boards though muted on the spine end. The ffep is missing so the first page is the title page. There is minor wear at the coonres and edges with toing to the endpages as well. The last 2 pages list the works of Walter Besant and Laurence Hutton.
Synopsis
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother. In The Awkward Age (1899), Henry James explores the English character, and the clash between old and new money with a light and subtly ironic touch to create a devastating critique of society and its machinations.
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- Bookseller
- Bren-Books.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6649
- Title
- The Awkward Age
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York NY
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction-literature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
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