The Children
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1928. First edition [1928], mixed state, with the Arabic 1 on page 347, "motors" on page 135. Good in fair dustjacket. Black cloth 347 pages, printed orange dustjacket. The exterior of the book is persistently dusty and rubbed with some light soil, a pinhole at the front upper joint, good hinges, sound text block with no loosened pages, clean pages free from chips, tears, names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has numerous chips and some dampstaining, about five to ten percent paper loss overall.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent "like bundles," are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year-old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters. Among the colorful cast of characters are the Wheater adults, who play out their own comedy of marital errors; the flamboyant Marchioness of Wrench; and the vivacious fifteen-year-old Judith Wheater, who captures Martin's heart. With deft humor and touching drama, Wharton portrays a world of intrigues and infidelities, skewering the manners and mores of Americans abroad.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005081
- Title
- The Children
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- AMERICAN MODERN FIRST EDITION LITERATURE FEMALE WOMEN AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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