The Education of Henry Adams.

ADAMS, Henry.

$25,000.00

Item Number: 140067

Washington: Privately Printed, 1907.

Rare first edition, one of only 40 copies printed of this classic work. The text of Education was not made commercially available until 1918, following the author’s death, when it was published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1919 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Modern Library named it as the best non-fiction book published in English since 1900. BAL 32; Reese Narratives of Personal Experience 2 (“certainly one of the great American biographies”). In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

"I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams," said Gore Vidal. "He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors." His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams? Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. It was selected by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.