Literary Friends

Howells, William Dean, Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A personal Retrospect of American Authorship. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Inside: Fine. Outside: Near Fine. 8vo. More than 8" X 5 1/2" 288pp., 71 plates, 2 pp. publisher's ads. Bound in green cloth with Gothic gilt lettering to the spine and front board, including a rubricated "L" on the front board; tops of the leaves are gilt; fore-edges and bottoms of the leaves are untrimmed; illustrated throughout with numerous black and white plates.