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The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library 184)
by Bennett, Arnold
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Fulshear, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Shelf wear and previous owner writing inside front cover. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is price-clipped, toned with age a bit, and has some tiny edge tears. Inside of jacket shows 383 titles. Some of the titles have pencil marks next to them. 640 pages plus a listing of Modern Library Giants (81 total). Protected in a Mylar cover now. 0.
Synopsis
First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters—shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia—over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
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- Bookseller
- Whiting Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09366
- Title
- The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library 184)
- Author
- Bennett, Arnold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Modern Library 184
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Whiting Books
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Fulshear, Texas
About Whiting Books
We are an Internet-based company that sells used, out-of-print, and some rare volumes for readers, researchers, and collectors. We carry general stock in both fiction and nonfiction, leaning toward regional histories, biography, genealogy, sports, and the arts.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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