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The Children

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The Children

by Edith Wharton

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  • Hardcover
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Very Good/No Jacket
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D. Appleton, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. D. Appleton, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. First state. (I) on last page, page 122, line 23 'you . . . my', page 135, line 14 - 'motors'. Black boards with gilt titles and decoration. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear, all edges lightly rubbed, spine ends a bit softened. Pages are clean and unmarked, very slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinged are just starting. Very nice copy. Scarce in first state.

Synopsis

A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent "like bundles," are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year-old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters. Among the colorful cast of characters are the Wheater adults, who play out their own comedy of marital errors; the flamboyant Marchioness of Wrench; and the vivacious fifteen-year-old Judith Wheater, who captures Martin's heart. With deft humor and touching drama, Wharton portrays a world of intrigues and infidelities, skewering the manners and mores of Americans abroad.

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Bookseller
PJK Books and Such Inc US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
20533
Title
The Children
Author
Edith Wharton
Format/Binding
Hard Cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
D. Appleton
Date Published
1928
Keywords
Fiction Literature
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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...
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...
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...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
First State
used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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...

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