Portrait of a Marriage
by Pearl S. Buck
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Fair to Good
- Seller
-
San Jose, California, United States
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About This Item
John Day, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Fair to Good. Signed. Inscribed and SIGNED by Pearl S. Buck on the front endpaper. The volume is bumped at the spine ends, toned the length of the spine, and heavily sunned on the crown. There is a thin stretch of discoloration on the bottom edge of the front panel and lilght offsetting to the endpapers. The unclipped dust jacket is chipped on the edges, missing the top 1 1/2" of the spine strip, sporadically soiled and reinforced with thin strips of tape on the outside of the jacket. The jacket is sleeved in mylar.
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
- Trilby & Co. Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14042924
- Title
- Portrait of a Marriage
- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Day
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- first edition|signed
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Trilby & Co. Books
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San Jose, California
About Trilby & Co. Books
Trilby & Co. Books is located in Northern California. The company was founded years ago by a Shetland Sheepdog named Trilby. Trilby's message to her family was brief and direct - the sale of books would increase disposable income and improve the quality of provisions in her food dish. My name is McTavish (picture above). I am the current CEO of this company, and I approve of her message. Oh, by the way, my speciality is literature, with an emphasis on first editions and signed books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
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