Author: HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN
Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham (Modern Library #277. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1969-70]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the 1885 novel by William Dean Howells. This is the story of a family who rapidly rise from poverty to great wealth, told in a realistic style which is a hallmark of the author's works. With an introduction by Harry Hayden Clark. Volume wrapped in blue and green variant jacket with an image of an elegant dinner party to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 14 in maroon cloth-covered boards / titling & decorations stamped in silver on spine / ml device blindstamped to front cover / yellow and gold Fujita endpapers. Volume bears 1951 date but likely published c.1969-70. Jacket style o, verso is blank. ML #277.1. --- A clean, bright, unmarked copy but with light foxing to textblock top edge. Price-clipped dust jacket with creases and a little chafing & rubbing but remaining bright and intact; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxii, 324, (2, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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