Howells, W.D.

Certain Delightful English Towns; With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 289, [5] pp. Blue vertical-ribbed cloth with gold and red lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-seven plates, black and white images of quaint English architecture and people. Howells was a good friend of Mark Twain and a notable literary figure in his own right. This is his travel narrative of life in the English countryside. Very Good+. Item #000010244

A small separation between the backstrip and the textblock with a contemporary name and bookplate on the front preliminaries.

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