Doting
by Green, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hogarth Press, 1952. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 252pp. Small octavo. Green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Original brown illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped; minor chipping to bottom of spine. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Binding tight and text block clean. very good Green's tenth novel--an amusing satire that focuses on a middle aged married couple and their attempt at having an open marriage. 1952
Synopsis
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1929 and had one son. During WWII he served for the duration in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104281
- Title
- Doting
- Author
- Green, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- British Fiction|Satire
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- FFEP
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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...
- Jacket
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- Text Block
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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