Description
The signed limited edition of New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915 by Van Wyck Brooks. A fine example.
Octavo, [viii], 557pp. Cloth-backed marbled boards, title in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Appears unread. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, with matching limitation number, light sunning along top edge. Includes the publisher’s scarce glassine dust jacket, fine.
From a limited to 997 numbered copies signed by Van Wyck Brooks on the limitation page, this being number 223.
A continuation of The Flowering of New England, Brooks’ study of American literary culture follows New England writers and intellectual life from the end of the Civil War through 1915, with attention to Henry James, William Dean Howells, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Sarah Orne Jewett, and other figures of the postbellum literary period.
