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The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover in dust jacket, VG/VG Modern Library # 76, embossed cloth with gilt titling. Introduction by James Taylor Adams. The interior is mostly clean and unmarked with a few marks in the margins. The dust jacket is not price-clipped. 517 pages with index. Henry Adams, (1838-1918) was a descendant of John Quincy Adams. The book is considered a classic of American literature. It was first published in 1918 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biorgraphy/Autobiography in 1919. A nice copy.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Rock River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Author
- Henry Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 517
- Size
- 16mo 6 x 7in.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- autobiography, memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nonfiction; Essays; Biography;
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About the Seller
Rock River Books
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina
About Rock River Books
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- VG/VG
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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