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Jennie Gerhardt
by Dreiser, Theodore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Light blue cloth binding rubbed at extremities and slightly cocked; backstrip browned; boards soiled; front hinge cracked; occasional pencilled margin notation; leaf edges, paste-downs & a few leaves foxed. No dj.; Black & white frontis illustration. ; 12mo; 432 pages .
Synopsis
Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 by An American Tragedy , a novel that brought him universal acclaim. Dreiser was increasingly preoccupied by philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life. He died in Los Angeles on December 28, 1945.
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51239
- Title
- Jennie Gerhardt
- Author
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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