HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1932* Publisher: Macmillan.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, black title to spine. Considerable bumps & rubs, spine, edges & corners faded. ACC.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with slight reading wear, no marks to text, marks & ageing to all edges. ACC.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 320 pp. text.* Description: A novel by Charles Morgan (1894 - 1958), the English-born playwright and novelist set in Kent, in 1875. This is a story about an an artist's first youthful romance, written by an English author. It won the La Femina-Vie Heureuse prize for 1929-30. His third novel, Portrait in a Mirror (1929), gave Morgan the breakthrough to public recognition he needed. Based partly on his own childhood and adolescence, it tells with exquisite lyric intensity and deep insight the tale of its young painter-hero, Nigel Frew, and his doomed love of Clare Sibright, a figure of similar ambiguous nature to Dostoyevsky's heroine in The Idiot..* An acceptable copy with clean text block. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4525
Title: Portrait in a Mirror
Author: Morgan, Charles
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - ACC/ACC/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint.
Publisher: Macmillan & Co
Place of Publication: London Uk 284
Date Published: 1932-01-01

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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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...