From Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
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43 pages. "A publication of the William Dean Howells Curatorship Fund established at Harvard University in 1978 by John N. M. Howells '34." One of "One hundred and fifty copies printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by Werner Mueller after designs by Greer Allen." Author's note explains that this small edition "basically reproduces the original version" of the talk he gave in Emerson Lecture Hall, at Harvard, May 1, 1987 as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Howells' birth; a "somewhat amplified and altered" version subsequently appeared in The New Yorker. 5" x 8-1/4" in white wraps, encased in gray French-fold DJ with red and black lettering on the front. The DJ is very slightly sunned along the spine and its front flap has a vertical crease along the edge (7/16" at top, 1/4" at bottom). Three tiny spots of soil to ffep, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in compliments card from the Houghton Library. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, who in 1987 was in the Harvard Department of English and, as a member of the WDH Memorial Committee, introduced Updike on the occasion of this lecture. (The nearly 50-year correspondence between Berthoff and Updike is held by Houghton in its Updike Collection.). Seller Inventory # WBB-510
Bibliographic Details
Title: Howells as Anti-Novelist
Publisher: The William Dean Howells Memorial Committee
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: Limited Edition
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Prof. Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University; the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, Professor of English, emerita, at U. Mass.-Boston, and members of their family. Some books contain highlighting and marginalia by the Berthoffs or other previous owners, which we aim to describe accurately.
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