Boston: Printed at the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1918.. Small quarto. Full dark blue-green crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. by Riviere & Son. Portrait frontis. Gilt initials 'E.O.A." in center of upper board, spine a shade sunned, upper joint cracking slightly at tips, but a very good copy. First printing of the first public edition, one of an issue suggested to have consisted of approximately 250 copies bearing the imprint for Mass Historical. The text is offered as 'edited' by Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Preface is attributed to him; BAL mirrors scholarship in noting that Adams was the actual author of the Preface, and the editor omitted none of the original text. The binding on this copy is, of course, an exception. The Mass. Historical copies were bound in a fashion almost identical to the Houghton Mifflin copies, except without the publisher's spine imprint. BAL 39. REESE (NARRATIVES) 2.

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Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WRCLIT85459
Title: THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Author: Adams, Henry
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Printed at the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1918.

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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