Wyndham Towers
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First edition. Quarter parchment and cloth, stamped in gilt on the front board. Some foxing to the spine and endpapers, modest stains on the rear board, a very good copy. Inscribed by the author: "Mr. Geo. O. Manchester, With the kind regards of T.B. Aldrich. Nov. 30th / 89." An early copy, *BAL* notes that the book was deposited at the Library of Congress on November 14th. *BAL* 350.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
birth name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
born: 11/11/1836
died: 3/19/1907
Biography
Poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in America. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore