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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Small quarto. xviii, [1]pp. 587pp. Some pages dampstained, foxed and unopened on foredges, owner bookplate on front pastedown, cloth dampstained and soiled, a fair to good only copy.

Little, Brown and Company. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles on front and spine, tape to bottom of spine, toning to spine, damp stain to upper left corner of front cover, which doesn't affect interior. Interior bright and clear. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1936.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. Reprint. Second printing, 1937. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front hinge weakened and strengthened with glue.. xviii, [2], 587 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Occasional footnotes. From Wikipedia: Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams (September 13, 1843 December 6, 1885) was an American socialite, active society hostess and arbiter of Washington, D.C., and an accomplished amateur photographer. Clover, who has been cited as the inspiration for writer Henry James's Daisy Miller (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881), was married to writer Henry Adams. After her suicide, he commissioned the famous Adams Memorial, which features an enigmatic androgynous bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to stand at the site of her, and his, grave. After her death, Adams destroyed all the letters that she had ever written to him and never spoke her name or referred to her publicly again. She was also omitted from his… Read More