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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Page ridges foxed. 1988 Trade Paperback. 268 pp. Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Caught in bureaucratic limbo as he waited to hear whether his tenure as a consul in Venice was concluded, William Dean Howells decided to spend three months exploring some little-known regions of Italy. His journalistic eye for detail and keen insight come through in this engaging volume of travel essays based on the trip.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 340 pages; .ex-library.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; stapled wraps; ex-library; 48 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; Ex-lib; dj in mylar 223 pages.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 2nd Printing. 2nd printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor scuffs on rear slipcase panel, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1982 Hard Cover. 1217 pp. The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate of the most controversial American writers of his own time. In A Foregone Conclusion (1875), a young American painter roams through Europe for years before at last deciding to marry the woman who, he erroneously thinks, has been in love with an Italian priest turned agnostic. A Modern Instance (1882) offers an unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage and ends with a hero barred by his perhaps overscrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine. Once again personal dilemmas are seen as symptoms of the rapid displacement of older social and religious stabilities by opportunism and commercial progress. One of the most engaging of all his novels, Indian Summer(1885), is touched with the Jamesian glamour of romantic confusion among two American couples in Italy. Here Howells's realism takes a quietly humorous turn. Situations which might be exploited by another novelist for their theatrical or melodramatic possibilities are instead eroded by the often trivial or casual experiences of everyday living. Characteristically, Howells is opposed to exaggeration in the interest of discovering how people, despite the crises that beset them, manage to find their way. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Howells's best-known work, gives a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business life and its perils, celebrating not the rise but the loss of fortune that makes possible the hero's recovery of his earlier integrity and happiness. "There are," remarked a contemporary reviewer, "thousands of Silas Laphams throughout the United States," and present-day readers might agree that there still are. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. An excellent copy. 1982 Hard Cover. 1217 pp. The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate of the most controversial American writers of his own time. In A Foregone Conclusion (1875), a young American painter roams through Europe for years before at last deciding to marry the woman who, he erroneously thinks, has been in love with an Italian priest turned agnostic. A Modern Instance (1882) offers an unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage and ends with a hero barred by his perhaps overscrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine. Once again personal dilemmas are seen as symptoms of the rapid displacement of older social and religious stabilities by opportunism and commercial progress. One of the most engaging of all his novels, Indian Summer(1885), is touched with the Jamesian glamour of romantic confusion among two American couples in Italy. Here Howells's realism takes a quietly humorous turn. Situations which might be exploited by another novelist for their theatrical or melodramatic possibilities are instead eroded by the often trivial or casual experiences of everyday living. Characteristically, Howells is opposed to exaggeration in the interest of discovering how people, despite the crises that beset them, manage to find their way. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Howells's best-known work, gives a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business life and its perils, celebrating not the rise but the loss of fortune that makes possible the hero's recovery of his earlier integrity and happiness. "There are," remarked a contemporary reviewer, "thousands of Silas Laphams throughout the United States," and present-day readers might agree that there still are. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nfd printing; Ex-lib; djw/price clipped, in mylar; 223 pages.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket. Ex library copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. dj w/price clipped; 324 clean, unmarked pages; (#277 in series, lists to 383 on dj reverse).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. dj w/small mark from sticker removal, unclipped price, in mylar; solid red c w/gilt spine titles; Rockwell Kent end papers;; 324 clean, unmarked pages; #277 in series; ownr's name.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. reprinted from the New England Quarterly; 4 clean, unmarked pages; stapled wraps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. First American Edition; 340 clean, unmarked pages/index./Notes. Bibliography.dj w/unclipped price, in mylar. b/w Illus (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. dj w/lite wear, clipped price, in mylar; beige Blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on green; Rockwell Kent endpapers; 324 clean, unmarked pages; (#277 in series, lists to 374 on dj reverse).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, clipped price, in mylar; solid red binding w/gilt titles Rockwell Kent end papers; 324 clean, unmarked pages; (#277 in series).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, with undated ads (BAL 9752; Bleiler Supernatural Fiction 865). Spine slightly toned, spine leans forward slightly, smudge and 1/2 inch ink mark on page base.8. 1903 Hard Cover. 219, [5] pp. Frontispiece and three plates. Three stories by the editor of Atlantic Monthly, who was nicknamed The Dean of American Letters. His best known work is The Rise of Silas Lapham. Includes: His Apparition; The Angel of the Lord; Though One Rose from the Dead. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. First American Edition; dj in mylar (price unclipped); 340 clean, unmarked pages/ Notes. Bibliography. Index. Frontispiece (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj in mylar 236 clean, unmarked pages./index.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. ** STURDY CLOTH-BOUND BOOK** NEAR FINE HARDCOVER IN (VERY GOOD) DUSTJACKET ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** CLEAN, STAIN-FREE, TEXT UNMARKED ** Published by Indiana University Press, 1968. NOTE: The photos you can access with this listing are of the actual book you will be sent; please examine them closely as they provide the best indication of condition. With 397 pages, and with 11 full-page illustration plates. A very well-made, handsome book, bound in heavy-duty linen-covered boards with embossed gold lettering on the front and spine. The book itself has no notable flaws, shows only very scattered, faint age speckles to the exterior page edges, a previous owner's name neatly at top of blank front page, otherwise book appears like new. The book is exceptionally clean and stain-free, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, or missing. The hinges are sound and undamaged, the corners are sharp and unbumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, and all text remains crisp, sharp, and legible. Aside from the previously noted owner's name, there is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or markings of any such kind in the book. The dustjacket is also quite clean and stain-free, complete and intact, NOT price-clipped, no tears, no chips, no pieces missing, with the sun-fading along the jacket edges and to the spine that is normal for this jacket. Buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B23.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 130 clean, unmarked pages; Green cloth binding with gilt lettering , top edge gilt; lite wear at ecxtremities; partial owner's stamp on front pastedown. Charlotte Harding (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 130 clean, unmarked pages; Green cloth binding w/ gilt titles , top edge gilt; owner's plate. Charlotte Harding (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/small closed tear; 344 clean, unmarked pages/index. B/w (illustratore). Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Pencil name on front endpaper, minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1908 Hard Cover. 302 pp. Teal-grey cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Includes: Up and Down Madeira; Two Up-town Blocks into Spain; Ashore at Genoa; Naples and Her Joyful Noise; Pompeii Revisited; Roman Holidays; A Week at Leghorn; Over at Pisa; Back at Genoa; Eden After the Fall. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Reprint. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. 8vo. Ex-library. Extravagant bright blue cloth binding with decoration in gilt, titles in gilt, and raised decorative band to front board. Two-color title page. 369 pp. William Dean Howells (/'ha??lz/; March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Ex-library with spine label and many marks and black-outs from library. Rough-cut pages. Hinges sound. Good. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Early Printing; rust c w/gilt titles; 212 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Dust Jacket. Front inner hinge is badly cracked, only a small strip of fabric remains. Rear inner hinge is cracked. Front free endpaper and title page are detached but present. Covers have slight wear to the outer corners and spine ends.

Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. 1st. 3 1/2 pages of story, 1st appearance; [image shows only 1st page] Size: 9" x 13".

First edition, first state (with the required green cover). Four illustrations, plates. 54 pages. -- Hardcover, dark green cloth with blind-stamped and gilt designs; TEG top-edge-gilt. Condition: very good minus (light cloth wear at tips and corners). **NICE COPY for the W. D. Howells collector**.

First Edition, as identified in BAL 9783, green cloth with gilt and blind-stamped decoration, TEG top-edge-gilt. Hardcover, bright. with owner gift note dated 1907. Condition: very good minus (cover has several small white spots, rub at tips; light scattered foxing including the margin of some plates). -- Overall, attractive copy for the W.D. Howells collector.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Edges lightly rubbed, boards lightly soiled, rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 1906 Hard Cover. v, 289 pp. Teal boards with gilt titles, top edge gilt. Includes: The Landing of a Pilgrim at Plymouth; Twenty-four Hours at Exeter; A Fortnight in Bath; A Country Town and a Country House; Afternoons in Wells and Bristol; By Way of Southampton to London; In Folkestone Out of Season; Kentish Neighborhoods, Including Canterbury; Oxford; The Charm of Chester; Malvern Among Her Hills; Shrewsbury by Way of Worcester and Hereford; Northampton and the Washington Country.…