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The Education of Henry Adams (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
by ADAMS, Henry
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. Hard Cover. A deluxe leatherbound reprint edition by the Franklin Library presenting the autobiography by Henry Adams (1838-1918). The author was the great-grandson of President John Adams and grandson of Pres. John Quincy Adams. This Pulitzer prize-winning work, published posthumously in 1919, represented his attempt to make sense of the turbulent late 19th century. Illustrated with black & white engravings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Issued as part of the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in full black bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges (AEG) all in bright gilt. Leaves made from high-quality papers. Grey silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; xiv, 529 pages .
Synopsis
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88205
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
- Author
- ADAMS, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>American History & Politics;
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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