Adams, Henry Democracy London 1882
Adams, Henry. Democracy. An American novel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. (4)280 pp. + 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end, followed by a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated May, 1882. 8vo, original dark blue cloth. First English edition. This remarkable novel about the political life of Washington was first published without the author's name in New York, by Henry Holt, in 1880 (as No. 112 in the "Leisure Hour Series"); Macmillan's London reprint preserves Adams's anonymity. A fine copy; signature on the half-title of Reginald A. Talbot, dated 1882. Cf. BAL 12.
£150
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