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His Family
by Ernest Poole
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. His Family" by Ernest Poole. First edition, first printing, with no subsequent printings listed on the copyright page. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917. Winner of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first Pulitzer Prize award for Literature. The book measures 5.25" x 7.75", 320 pages, with additional pages of publisher's advertisements. The book is in very good condition. The navy cloth boards retain their rich color with light soiling. Scuffing to the edges with gently bumped corners. Some fading to the spine. The gilt lettering is clear and vibrant. Soiling to the endsheets. Creasing to the top corners of the pages of text. The textblock is slightly toned and largely clean with sound binding. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(C2-3).
Synopsis
His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001880
- Title
- His Family
- Author
- Ernest Poole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
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Ernestoic Books
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- Edges
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- Copyright page
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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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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