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A Victorian in the modern world
by Hapgood, Hutchins
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Signed. Inscribed and signed on ffep, apparently to artist Charley (Charles) Kaeselau. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; lightly rubbed at extremities and edges faded. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Rough-trimmed side edges. Dustjacket is very worn with detached but present rear flap. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'Hutchins Hapgood in his day was more famous than Lincoln Steffens and most of his other contemporaries. He has been called the noblest Roman of them all because, by and large, he was the only one of a celebrated group of world-shakers who frankly and consciously felt himself to be a Victorian. Unlike Mabel Dodge and Lincoln Steffens and John Reed and the rest, Hutchins Hapgood did not throw aside the values and traditions which were his by inheritance and education. He was born in 1869, and the first thirty years of his life were so entirely traditional that he faced the modern world and its swift, great changes with an unshakeable Therefore, there is a new and notable value to his record of these tempestuous years. Hutch Hapgood was quicker than most to see the new developments, to meet the new personalities in the worlds of art, labor, politics, journalism, and to write about them--but he always did this in terms of the Victorian culture. Here are fascinating accounts of Eugene O'Neill, of Terry Carlin, the magnificent bum; of Theodore Dreiser, Bertrand Russell, Theodore Roosevelt, William James, George Santayana, Mayor Gaynor, William Vaughn Moody, Bill Haywood; and of Mabel Dodge and her salon, of the Bernard Berensons, of Leo Stein--the student and connoisseur of art--and his sister Gertrude, of his brothers Norman and William Powers Hapgood, of the young Hemingway, Of Josiah Flynt, of Stieglitz and the Armory Show, of the origins of the Provincetown Players, of Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, of Greenwich Village and the old Brevoort, of suffragists and the old East Side, of Bowery toughs and literary crooks, of labor leaders and Bohemian artists, of post-War Berlin and the south of France...but the list is almost endless. How pleased and rewarded many readers will be by this full, frank, and engaging autobiography!' (-from the endflap). Includes bibliography and index. 604 p. pl., ports. 24 cm.
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- Bookseller
- Quadrant Book Mart
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23105
- Title
- A Victorian in the modern world
- Author
- Hapgood, Hutchins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 604
- Keywords
- Chicago Evening Post; New York Evening Post
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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