The Rise of Silas Latham. With an introduction by Henry Steele Commager and illustrations by Mimi Korach. [Philadelphia]: The Limited Editions Club, 1961.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 1403.
Large quarto. 384 pp. With fifteen inserted plates. Publisher's full illustrated buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained light gray. Scattered soiling to top and outer page edge, else a fine copy. With original slipcase. Slipcase is sunned and slightly rubbed, but still good.
William Dean Howells (1837 –1920) was a popular American author and one of the founders of the American school of realists. As a reward for a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln appointed him the American Consul to Venice, which lead to the publication of his charming travel books Venetian Life and Italian Journeys. Upon his return to the United States, Howells wrote for a variety of prestigious magazines, including Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine, before becoming editor of Atlantic Monthly in 1871. Today he is best remembered for his 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham, an account of the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur.
Newman & Wiche, 324.
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