Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family
by Caine, Barbara
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0199250340
- ISBN 13
- 9780199250349
- Seller
-
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oxford University Press, 2005. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. This is a collective biography of the Strachey family, including Lytton Strachey, one of the most well-known members of the Bloomsbury set, his nine siblings, and his parents; the Stracheys were an unusual family, prominent in imperial administration, science, and feminism in the 19th century, and in the suffrage movement, women's education, and in new approaches to sexuality in the 20th century; the book examines the lives of the Stracheys and relates the issues they faced to the wider society; includes photographs and family trees (black cloth with gold lettering; white pictorial dust jacket with photo of the Stracheys on the front, spine ends very slightly creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004308
- Title
- Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family
- Author
- Caine, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0199250340
- ISBN 13
- 9780199250349
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2005
Terms of Sale
House of Our Own Books
Most book orders are shipped the same day or the next day, except on weekends.
About the Seller
House of Our Own Books
Biblio member since 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
About House of Our Own Books
Our shop is located on two floors of a quiet, comfortable Victorian house on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania campus. The large stock of general and scholarly books is divided between new and used, and is well-organized and categorized. ** Only a very small fraction of our inventory is currently on the internet, so if you do not find what you are looking for, please contact us by phone or email to see if we have a copy in the store. ** CAUTION: If you use the large search box on this page you are searching OUR online inventory. If you use any other search box you may be searching the entire online inventory of ALL Biblio booksellers. Hours: Mon to Fri, 11:00 to 6:00 / Sat & Sun, 12:00-6:00
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...