The House of Mirth
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Red cloth with white lettering to cover, title fully faded from spine and marked in with ink pen. Soil to cloth and top edge of text. Prev owner's name and heavy toning but still pretty tight
Synopsis
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63288
- Title
- The House of Mirth
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1908
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2015
Waynesboro, Virginia
About Stone Soup Books
Stone Soup Books, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in downtown Waynesboro, Virginia offers brick and mortar book shopping by appointment, personalized bookselling, book scouting services, & event bookselling services. We love to connect books with people who love them.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...