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The Education of Henry Adams.
by Adams, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with green and gilt; the top edge tint is olive green; a Very Good book, with a Good dust j
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Modern Library, 1931.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with green and gilt; the top edge tint is olive green; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Index. Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 76 in the Modern Library series. The most recent printed date is a 1931 Modern Library copyright. Dating by ML guides this is from Spring 1960. The 388 titles listed on the verso of the dust jacket include Colette, Six Novels; but does not include Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. Dust jacket style i; binding style 8. Introduction by James Truslow Adams.
Synopsis
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068386
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with green and gilt; the top edge tint is olive green; a Very Good book, with a Good dust j
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1931.
- Pages
- 517 pages + ads.
- Size
- 12mo (7.25 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
Biblio member since 2003
Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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