1897 Being a Boy, Charles Dudley Warner Inscription, Cover Art: Sarah Whitman

Description: Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner. With Illustrations from Photographs by Clifton Johnson. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1897, author inscription, cover design by Sarah Whitman, 186 pp, 7.5 x 5", 8vo. In poor condition. As is. Front board exhibits off-setting sound edges & soiling/black smudging around hinge. Rear board exhibits red ink at top edge & general scuffing and soiling. Cloth spine toned from discoloration. Head and tail of spine collapsed. Gilt lettering on front board overall bright and clean. Gilt lettering on spine dulled, but still legible. Top edge gilt. Ownership bookplate found on front paste-down: O.B. McLean. Author inscription found on front fly-leaf: "Isa, From the Boy who never had time to cease being it. C.D.W. Sept 12, 1989." Foxing present on inscription page. Front and rear gutters split - binding mesh exposed. All plates clean & intact. Light toning throughout text-block, some instances of finger-soiling. Large glue residue stain exhibited on rear paste-down, which has caused smudging and general soiling to paste-down & end-page as well. Water dampness staining found at bottom corner of pages 150 - end of text-block. Binding is intact, but very fragile at hinges. Please see photos. Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist, novelist and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the place and time he resisted in Being a Boy. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1860, he moved to Connecticut to become assistant editor of The Hartford Press. In 1884, he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was an American stained glass artist, painter, and book cover designer. Successful at a time when few women had professional art careers, she founded her own firm, Lily Glass Works. As a member of the board of the Harvard University "Annex," she helped to found Radcliffe College. Whitman's artistic training was rather short. She began her artistic training at the age of 26 in Boston with William Morris Hunt and William Rimmer, one of their earliest women students. COLI1897ABHB02/24 - HK1229

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