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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography -
Henry Adams
1918 - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York - First Trade Edition
A fine first trade edition of Henry Adams influential and Pulitzer-winning autobiography, that records the struggle of the Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth, whilst charting the great transformation in American life during the so-called Gilded Age.
First circulated privately in a run of 100 copies, and then published here posthumously and with an added preface by Henry Cabot Lodge. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language non-fiction books of the 20th century.
Housed in a bespoke leather clamshell case.
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Price HK$ 5,000
1918 - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York - First Trade Edition
A fine first trade edition of Henry Adams influential and Pulitzer-winning autobiography, that records the struggle of the Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth, whilst charting the great transformation in American life during the so-called Gilded Age.First circulated privately in a run of 100 copies, and then published here posthumously and with an added preface by Henry Cabot Lodge. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language non-fiction books of the 20th century.
Housed in a bespoke leather clamshell case.
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Price HK$ 5,000