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The Road to the Open
by Schnitzler, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Howard Latimer Limited, 1913. Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) is noted for his dramatic farces with sexual themes, which were often called "pornographic" by contemporary critics. . He wrote only two full-length novels, of which this is one. Originally published in German in 1908. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First English Edition. Uncommon to scarce. The"Authorized Translation" is by Horace Samuel. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. There is no publication date, and some bibliographers asign it to 1923, when the American edition was published. But Quercus agrees with The British Library that it was 1913, on the basis of a faint date stamp on the rear paste-down. Clean text; 412 pages. The endpapers are typically foxed, and it is tanned lightly throughout. Both hinges are cracked, hence the "minus" grading, but they are holding. There is sunfade to the spine and edges. Not a great copy, but a basically sound one. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002672
- Title
- The Road to the Open
- Author
- Schnitzler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First UK Edition.
- Publisher
- Howard Latimer Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Jewish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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