Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner
American Publishing Company, 1904. Autograph Edition. Hardcover. THIS COMPLETE 15 VOLUME SET PLUS MANUSCRIPT VOLUME IS LIMITED TO ONLY 25 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 7 - ALL VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION, STUNNINGLY BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT FLORAL RULE TO COVERS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RIBS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, LEATHER INLAID DOUBLURES, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS EXCEPT FOR LIMITED EDITION SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH SET INCLUDING THE AUTHORS SIGNATURE AND HAND WRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS. NO FOXING TO PAGES. NICELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL PAGE PLATES AND COLOR FRONTISPIECES. BOOKS MEASURE 9"x6.25". 114 YEARS OLD. TOO MUCH HERE TO TAKE PICTURES OF EVERYTHING BUT SET IS ALL IN UNIFORM FINE CONDITION AS SEEN IN PHOTOS. AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING SET, IN VERY SCARCE BINDING IN EXTRAORDINARY CONDITION. YOU WILL LOVE THIS SET! Born in Massachusetts and raised there and in western New York, Charles Dudley Warner graduated from Hamilton College in 1851. After working as a railway surveyor in Missouri (1853?54), he earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1858). He practiced law in Chicago for two years before joining his friend Joseph R. Hawley on the Hartford, Connecticut, Evening Press, which merged with the Hartford Courant in 1867. Warner was manager of or contributor to the newspaper for the next thirty-three years, while continuing to publish essays, travel books, and novels (his least successful genre). Warner and his wife, Susan, were early settlers in the Nook Farm neighborhood of Hartford. After the Clemens family moved there in 1871, Warner and SLC became friends, and collaborated on The Gilded Age (1873?74). It is for his share in this book, the first novel by either writer, that Warner is now best remembered. The American author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Toms Cabin), was also a friend and neighbor in the Nook Farm Neighborhood. Like New. Item #1994
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