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THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
by Howells, William Dean
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Company, 1885. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Good in blue-green boards. Hinge is starting. Owner name and date to FEP. A few owner notes to rear pastedown. Spine is rolled. Rubbing and edgewear to exterior. This is the first issue with perfect type in "sojourner" in the last line of page 176, and "Mr. Howell's Latest Works" on the front advertisement, 3 3/4 inches in height. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Synopsis
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal . About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly . His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, prompted the administration to offer him the consulship at Venice, a post he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade, a young woman from Vermont, in 1862 Paris. On his return to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before going to Boston as assistant to James T. Fields of The Atlantic Monthly . In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In this position he worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became his close friends. His first novel, Their Wedding Journey , appeared in 1872. The Rise of Silas Lapham was serialized in Century Magazine before it was published in book form in 1885. A Hazard of New Fortunes was published five years later. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned William Dean Howells the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.
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- Evolving Lens Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 910
- Title
- THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
- Author
- Howells, William Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
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