- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.Pride and Prejudice-Books
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 730.51
Quantity: 1 available
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First Edition. Original crimson cloth. Inscribed and signed in ink by Howells: "Charles Fairchild/ from/ W. D. Howells." Fairchild was a broker and friend and neighbor when Howells lived at Belmont. See "Selected Letters of W. D. Howells" for the relations between Howells and Fairchild. Fairchild owned and rented Howells' home in Belmont, and he conducted negotiations for publication of Howells' works by Harper when Osgood failed. Note that this book is published by Harper. From the library of Christoph Lohmann, who was Associate Editor of "Selected Letters of W. D. Howells," but without any indication to that effect.Wear with slight loss at the head and foot of the spine, fading on the spine, internals very nice. An important association copy.
Seller Inventory # 024219
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Mouse-Trap and Other Farces
- Author
- Howells, W. D.
- Publisher
- Harper, New York
- Publication year
- 1889
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Pride and Prejudice-Books
Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 1998
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In business since 1985, Pride and Prejudice-Books is owned by Merrill Whitburn, Ph.D., and Diane Whitburn, MLS. Our stock in used and rare books includes substantial holdings in rhetoric, science, technology, philosophy, religion, literature and literary studies, history, and other scholarly and general categories.
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Pride and Prejudice-Books
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Ballston Lake, NY U.S.A. 12019
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