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The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
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Limited Editions Club, New York, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Mimi Korach. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Quarto, No. 1,164 of an edition of 1,500, pp. xiii, 365, 1 (limitation page), printed boards, top edge tinted gray, slipcased, illustrated by Mimi Korach and signed by Korach on the limitation page. Condition of this book: Fine in a sound but discolored slipcase. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Mimi Korach. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54978. .
Synopsis
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal . About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly . His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, prompted the administration to offer him the consulship at Venice, a post he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade, a young woman from Vermont, in 1862 Paris. On his return to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before going to Boston as assistant to James T. Fields of The Atlantic Monthly . In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In this position he worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became his close friends. His first novel, Their Wedding Journey , appeared in 1872. The Rise of Silas Lapham was serialized in Century Magazine before it was published in book form in 1885. A Hazard of New Fortunes was published five years later. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned William Dean Howells the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54978
- Title
- The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Author
- William Dean Howells
- Illustrator
- Mimi Korach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; 19th century; Art & Design. Mimi Korach William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham
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