WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF

JULIA WARD HOWE: 1819-1910. By Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott. Assisted by Florence Howe Hall. With Portraits and other Illustrations. [In Two Volumes].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [December], 1915.

Price: $700.00

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First edition, large-paper issue, limited to 450 numbered copies, with a page of original manuscript by Julia Ward Howe (as issued), publisher's reference copy. [x],392,[2]; [x],434,[2] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF. Both volumes are moderately worn at tips of spine and corners, publisher's leather spine labels (of each volume) are nicked and moderately worn, light soiling to covers, else a very good set, with partially unopened text quite fresh and clean. BAL 9530.

Item #333585

Publisher's reference copy, with publisher's bookplate on front flyleaf of each volume. Large-paper issue, limited to 450 numbered copies, of which 400 were for sale; this is copy number "430" (the first 400 copies were offered for sale).

the leaf of manuscript (single octavo leaf on recto only, headed [page] 1), beginning: "I am here to prophecy good things of the entertainment wh[ich] awaits you..." [consisting of fourteen lines in Julia Ward Howe's ink holograph].