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Add this copy of A Henry Adams Reader to cart. $6.00, very good condition, Sold by Flips Fine Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greensboro, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1959 by Doubleday Anchor.
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Very good(-) copy: creased spine causing small fore edge push, but square; light creasing at front lower corner, else uncreased & sound copy. Edited by Elizabeth Stevenson. rack-size trade. Anchor A177 ($1.25, date on title page, no list at back); 381 pgs w/ 8-pg intro by Stevenson; chronological selection. cover by Leonard Baskin.
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Garden City. 1958. Doubleday. 1st Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. Edited and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Stevenson. 392 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Portrait of Henry Adams from a sketch by Samuel Lawrence, 1868, in the possession of Mrs. Evelyn Mimes Gaskell. keywords: History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A HENRY ADAMS READER-the only collection of its kind-contains generous selections from all of Adams' varied writings, many of which have long been inaccessible. This volume includes a firsthand account of Adams' meeting, as a youth, with the Italian patriot Garibaldi; the famous account of the Gould and Fisk Gold Conspiracy, and an essay on Captain John Smith. There are chapters from Adams' two novels, Democracy and Esther; sect ions of his biographies of Gallatin and John Randolph; and selections from his monumental The History of the United States, dealing with Toussaint L'Ouverture's revolution in Haiti, Tecumseh's attempt to protect Indian land from pioneer settlers, and privateering in the War of 1812. There is a long and beautiful letter from Samoa, which marked the beginning of Adams' recovery from the shock of his wife's suicide. There are three chapters from his classic Mont-St. -Michel and Chartres, and two chapters from his famous The Education of Henry Adams. Also included are 'The Tendency of History, ' 'The Rule of Phase Applied to History, ' and two long poems. This rich cross section of Adams' works, selected and introduced by his foremost biographer, presents for the first time in one volume the whole range of his achievement. inventory #8307.
Add this copy of Henry Adams: a Biography to cart. $12.95, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Macmillan Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8 Vo; 1 Pound. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, price clipped, in mylar; 425 pages/bibliography, index.
