Author: HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN
Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. New Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, black lettering on spine, medallion blind-stamped on front cover. "Invariably cited in any list of American "business" novels. its real story involves the unsuccessful efforts of a crude but essentially honest self-made man to become accepted by Boston Brahmins. Lapham is a credible businessman who has made a fortune in mineral paint discovered on a family farm. quite untypical of contemporary entrepreneurs. he makes large loans to a crooked former partner which result in his own ruin. All, however, ends happily. As Frank Norriscontemptuously remarked, Howells's realism in American social studies amounted to crises involving cups of tea." --Auchincloss/Business.. Rear board lightly soiled, spine sunned, small tear in cloth binding at head of spine, former owner's name written on ffep. VERY GOOD. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xiv, 546 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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