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The Education of Henry Adams
by Adams, Henry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Considered by many one of the best American autobiographies to have been written. Originally privately published in 1907; it gained fame when reissued by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1917. This is a Near Fine copy of a Later Printing (the 36th), with a new Introduction by Denis Brogan in addition to the Preface from 1917 by Henry Cabot Lodge. Bright red cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; xxiv, 517 pages, indexed. Tiny bookseller label on front paste-down and evidence of some erasures on the FFEP; else Fine. The dustjacket is in rough condition, however, with considerable rubbing, creasing and chipping. In an archival plastic protector.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004772
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Author
- Adams, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Spine
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Fine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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