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The Passionate Friends: A novel
by WELLS, H.G
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1913. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 356, [12 adverts]. Vertically ribbed sage green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, decoratively blind-stamped. Top edge gilt. Spine gently sunned, wear and bruising to extremities, joints rubbed. Endpapers toned and foxed, pencil POI to ffep, occasional pencil scoring to margins, a few marks, gently shaken. Else, clean. A robust copy. Dedicated, mysteriously, to "L. E. N. S.": possibly, it has been suggested, Elizabeth von Arnim, who had become Wells' lover in 1910. The novel had been serialised in The Grand Magazine (March-Nov. 1913). Despite Wells later referring to it as "gawky," the novel went on to be adapted twice for the British screen, first, in 1922 by the Stoll Film Company and again in 1949 by David Lean. It is also notable as the first example of Wells' notion of an "open conspiracy": his "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2346
- Title
- The Passionate Friends: A novel
- Author
- WELLS, H.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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