HOWELLS, William D.

The Rise of Silas Lapham

First edition, first state of the ads ("Works" vs. "Novels"), but with the battered type on page 176. Tan cloth. Bookplate front pastedown, modest stain on the foredge, else a very near fine copy. The best known novel by the Atlantic Monthly editor who was one of the first to encourage the early works of Henry James and Mark Twain. His concerns in his fiction with both social causes and American high society foreshadowed the works of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis and others.

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