With a Page of Charles Dudley Warner's Manuscript
The Gilded Age / A Tale of Today.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First Edition, second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Page of Charles Dudley Warner's Manuscript. Original publisher's sheep, black leather spine labels lettered in gilt, front cover rehinged, else fine. BAL 3357.
Item #21493
With a page of octavo manuscript in Warner's hand, about 130 words, concerning the character Philip Sterling with reflections on the fairer sex (“It is probably on account of the lack of enterprise in women that they are not as fond of stock speculations and mine ventures as men. It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling…”).
