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THE LITTLE NUGGET
by Wodehouse, P. G
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.J. Watt & Company, (1914). Grefe, Will.. First U.S. edition. Illustrated by Will Grefe. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Thin paperguard at frontispiece loosely inserted, tears in cloth at head and tail of spine mended (affecting publisher's name and "The" in title), otherwise very good.
Synopsis
From the book:If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which they had assigned to Mrs Elmer Ford, late of New York, they might well have felt a little aggrieved. Philosophers among them would possibly have meditated on the limitations of human effort; for they had done their best for Mrs Ford. They had housed her well. They had fed her well. They had caused inspired servants to anticipate her every need. Yet here she was, in the midst of all these aids to a contented mind, exhibiting a restlessness and impatience of her surroundings that would have been noticeable in a caged tigress or a prisoner of the Bastille. She paced the room. She sat down, picked up a novel, dropped it, and, rising, resumed her patrol. The clock striking, she compared it with her watch, which she had consulted two minutes before. She opened the locket that hung by a gold chain from her neck, looked at its contents, and sighed. Finally, going quickly into the bedroom, she took from a suit-case a framed oil-painting, and returning with it to the sitting-room, placed it on a chair, and stepped back, gazing at it hungrily. Her large brown eyes, normally hard and imperious, were strangely softened. Her mouth quivered.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27052
- Title
- THE LITTLE NUGGET
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Illustrator
- Grefe, Will.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W.J. Watt & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1914)
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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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