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Doting: A Novel
by GREEN, Henry
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press, 1952. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket and original wraparound band; [iv],252pp. Faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 11s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, with wear and small tears to spine ends, and some scattered foxing on verso; Very Good+. Wraparound band lightly edgeworn, with a vertical fold at center, else quite well-preserved. Green's final novel, in which a husband and wife married for 22 years have, by amicable arrangement, been seeing other people separately. Drama ensues when the husband decides to start going out with a girl 25 years his junior.
Synopsis
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1929 and had one son. During WWII he served for the duration in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52686
- Title
- Doting: A Novel
- Author
- GREEN, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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