A Pulitzer Prize winner
La vie et correspondance de Barrett Wendell
Paris: Payot, 1926. First edition in French, translated by A. Brule, 8vo, pp. [9], 12- 430, [2]; uncut and largely unopened; frontispiece portrait; original gray wrappers printed in blue; very good and sound. Bookplate of Alanson Bigelow Houghton, president of Corning Glass Works, and later a U.S. Representative from New York, and later still, U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Great Britain. Howe was assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1893-1895, and editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin until 1913. He was vice president of the Atlantic Monthly Company from 1911 to 1929, and for this book on the life and letters of Barrett Wendell, he won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Item #56725
Price: $75.00
