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THE WINTHROP COVENANT
by Auchincloss, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395240816
- ISBN 13
- 9780395240816
- Seller
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a front free endpaper, tall 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped title on front cover; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: $8.95 price) depicting a shadowy Puritan behind half a dozen moderns painted by Paul Bacon; tan endpapers, 246 pages. Louis Auchincloss (1917 - 2010), a scion of a patrician family, became an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who examined American polite society and old money from New England and New York. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.<br/> <br/> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Tight, no previous owner's or remainder markings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7496
- Title
- THE WINTHROP COVENANT
- Author
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395240816
- ISBN 13
- 9780395240816
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Aristocrat, editor, law, history, essays, Henry James, Edith Wharton, patrician, New York City, Puritans, religion, State Department, blue blood, Brahmin, boston, Club
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Tight
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- Fine
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