The Trumpeter Swan
by Bailey, Temple
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
€4.26€2.77
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover without dust jacket, 386 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; light shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, front cover and spine have bright and clear black embossed lettering, spine sun faded, two ink signatures on free front endpaper, some slight looseness developing, but still tight in binding, page edges age darkened but all pages otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout (no foxing). . Hard Cover. Very Good -.
Synopsis
She did not need a hat. It would have hidden her hair. George Dalton, watching her from the door, decided that he had never seen such hair, bronze, parted on the side, with a thick wave across the forehead, it shaded eyes which were clear wells of light.She was a little thing with a quality in her youth which made one think of the year at the spring, of the day at morn, of Botticelli's Simonetta, of Shelley's lark, of Wordsworth's daffodils, of Keats' Eve of St. Agnes--of all the lovely radiant things of which the poets of the world have sung--Of course Dalton did not think of her in quite that way. He knew something of Browning and little of Keats, but he had at least the wit to discern the rareness of her type.As for the rest, she wore faded blue, which melted into the blue of the mists, stubbed and shabby russet shoes and an air of absorption in her returned soldier. This absorption Dalton found himself subconsciously resenting. Following an instinctive urge, he emerged, therefore, from his chrysalis of ill-temper, and smiled upon a transformed universe.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040248
- Title
- The Trumpeter Swan
- Author
- Bailey, Temple
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- FICTION HISTORICAL Popular Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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