THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.]
Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1885. First Edition BAL 9619: First state of ads and with last word on p. 176 in broken type, similar to the copy Howell's inscribed as "First Copy." An important book in American Literature, one of Grolier's 100 Influential American Books, this is considered the first novel concerning the self-made American. Howells "taught the American novelist how to enter bourgeois life with comprehension.... [Howells] was to discover the prosaic ordinary man of the middle class and to make him tolerable in fiction" (Grolier). A little soiled, lower front corner a bit chewed. Very Good (Item ID: 003600)
$225.00