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The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library #76.2)
by ADAMS, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of an autobiography by the grandson of John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams, both former American presidents. First published privately in 1907, it became a highly-praised success upon its publication for a wider audience in 1918. Edited, with a preface, by Henry Cabot Lodge and an introduction by James Truslow Adams (no relation). Indexed. In orange jacket with image of Henry Adams on cover. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 362 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #76.2. --- A clean, tightly-bound and sound copy, though with prior owner's signatures and info. at two locations at the front of the book, and with her markings on perhaps as many as 6 interior leaves. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with conspicuous sunning to spine; tears, chips & rubbing to extremities but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; x, 517, (8, ads) 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 #
- 87879
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library #76.2)
- Author
- ADAMS, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1952]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>American History & Politics;
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About Bluebird Books
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Leaves
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- Spine
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