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His family
by Poole, Ernest
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1917. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. The MacMillan Company, 1917. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover, 320 pp. In Good Condition, No Dust jacket. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light rubbing and bumping along edges with a bit of the color rubbed off at the corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Very light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. 1" slit at the bottom of the rear past down/ rear endpaper as it covers the hinge. Previous owner's book plates both on the front paste down and rear pastedown . Pages 188 and 199 have blocks of browned stains. Pages are lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A well preserved first edition copy. 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 ever Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
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
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20240208003
- Title
- His family
- Author
- Poole, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner, -NP
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Epilonian Books
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Manhattan Beach, California
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