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Portrait of a Marriage
by Buck, Pearl S
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York; (1945): John Day. Octavo. 224 pages illustrated by Charles Hargens. Buck's novel of a marriage set against the Pennsylvania countryside. "Marriage is so profound an experience," William wrote to his grown daughter, "I should be sorry if you missed it. It takes place sometimes between two who are unsuited, but still it is profound." In this fine novel, Pearl Buck writes of a couple unsuited but the richness through trials is told in her marvelous style. Bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt, gilt a bit dull, a very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light chipping to foot.
Synopsis
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters. This is a book of strong emotions relating to Sackville-West's complicated marriage to writer and politician Harold Nicolson. The two chapters written by Vita sometimes seem to be a diary and sometimes a self-confession.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025603
- Title
- Portrait of a Marriage
- Author
- Buck, Pearl S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Day
- Place of Publication
- New York; (1945)
- Keywords
- Pennsylvania Countryside Fiction; Pearl Buck's Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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