The Way Of All Flesh
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1944.
Price: $75.00
Hardcover. First edition thus, illustrated by Andre Durenceau. Top edge gilt. Bookstore label else fine in a very good slipcase. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the illustrator.
Item #40249
Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902
Biography
English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the VIctorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore