A Fountain Sealed (or Valerie Upton)

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons (Nelson's Library), 1908

About this Item

Condition: (see pics.) Red burgundy boards with slight staining. Ornately embossed with the letters NL on the front board. Embossed and gilded printing to spine. 384 pp. A nice-to-hold retro copy. Presumed 1908. Synopsis: The author used the theme of differences between American culture and English culture during the early 1900's. "The three people who talked, with many intimate pauses of silence, were all Bostonians, though of widely different types. The hostess, sitting in an easy chair and engaged with some sewing, was a girl of about twenty-six. She wore a brown skirt of an ugly cut and shade and a white silk shirt, adorned with a high linen collar, a brown tie and an old-fashioned gold watch-chain. Her forehead was too large, her nose too short; but her lips were full and pleasant and when she smiled she showed charming teeth. The black-rimmed glasses she wore emphasised the clearness and candour of her eyes. Her thick, fair hair was firmly fastened in a group of knobs down the back of her head. There was an element of the grotesque in her appearance and in her careful, clumsy movements, yet, with it, a quality almost graceful, that suggested homely and wholesome analogies, - freshly-baked bread; fair, sweet linen; the safety and content of evening fire sides. This was Mary Colton.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1597587488240

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Fountain Sealed (or Valerie Upton)

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons (Nelson's Library)

Publication Date: 1908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition