Author: BENNETT, ARNOLD
Title: The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library #184. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Arnold Bennett's novel, which traces the lives of two sisters, from childhood to old age. "The Old Wives' Tale" was first published in 1908, and ranks #87 on the Modern Library list of the 100 most important novels of the 20th century. This edition features jacket illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 306 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1945, though 1911 date appears in book. ML #184.1. --- With prior owner's inked name to front free endpaper, mild dampstain to lower edge of front cover and very slight rippling to first few leaves, else a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket ($.95) with dampstains, chipping and small tears along edges but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xii, 640 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library #184. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Arnold Bennett's novel, which traces the lives of two sisters, from childhood to old age. "The Old Wives' Tale" was first published in 1908, and ranks #87 on the Modern Library list of the 100 most important novels of the 20th century. This edition features jacket illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 306 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1945, though 1911 date appears in book. ML #184.1. --- With prior owner's inked name to front free endpaper, mild dampstain to lower edge of front cover and very slight rippling to first few leaves, else a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket ($.95) with dampstains, chipping and small tears along edges but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xii, 640 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 17.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87454
- Book number: 87454