Book: Very Good

Jacket: Fair

Edition: October, 1923

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston


Description: Very Good in fair jacket has light tanning on spine, with chipping at crown , else and split at bottom of spine/back cover, piece missing on fold of back cover. Former owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt lightly faded on spine. With Illustrations. Large octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt, 418 pages, illustrated (reproducing black-and-white photographs of Edwin Booth, Maud Howe, Bret Harte, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James et al). An elusive title in dust jacket. "Few people are better equipped to write a completely satisfactory book of reminiscences than the daughter of Julia Ward Howe. Surrounded from babyhood by the finest minds and most arresting personages of the day...she surely could not help but present a fascinating review of people and events of the past six decades" (from the front panel of dust jacket)--including reminiscences of Henry James, Julia Ward Howe, Margaret Deland, Laura E. Richards, Theodore Roosevelt et al.