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Henry Adams: Selected Letters by Henry Adams
by Adams, Henry; Ernest Samuels (ed.)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0674387570
- ISBN 13
- 9780674387577
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG+. Tan cloth boards with copper lettering, burgundy/green dj with bw illustration; [xvi] 587 pp.; 12 pp of bw illustrations. From the dust jacket: This selection, the first based on the authoritative six volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time. Adams knew everyone who was anyone and went almost everywhere, and--true to the Adams family tradition--recorded it all. These letters to an array of correspondents from American presidents to Henry James to five-year-old honorary nieces reveal Adams's passion for politics and disdain for politicians, his snobbish delight in society and sincere affection for friends, his pose of dilettantism and his serious ambitions as writer and historian....
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128084
- Title
- Henry Adams: Selected Letters by Henry Adams
- Author
- Adams, Henry; Ernest Samuels (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674387570
- ISBN 13
- 9780674387577
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- henry adams; american; 19th century; 20th century ; Adams, Henry ; american ; 19th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American;
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