signed first edition Hardcover
1899 · New York & London
by HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.]
New York & London: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Two early bookplates on front pastedown with one mostly scraped away revealing the other beneath; newspaper clipping laid down on rear endpaper with resulting browning to facing rear pastedown. Small spot of wear to cloth at base of spine. Near Fine. A. I. Keller. Original red cloth. Illustrated with ten plates by A. I. Keller. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "W. D. Howells/Chicago, Oct. 25, 1899." (Inventory #: 022073)