The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich In Two Volumes (The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Volumes 1-2)

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1897 first edition thus, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), two 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches tall green buckram cloth hardcover volumes, no dust jackets, gilt ruling to front covers, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait of Aldrich with tissue guard in Volume 1, ix, 204, viii, 220 pp. Mild to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Sun fading to spines. First blank front free-endpaper excised from both volumes. Period prior owner name and address to front pastedowns and blank free-endpaper. One page in Volume 2 with a half-inch edge tear. Otherwise, apart from very slight age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. ~H~ [3.0P] Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published works by Charles W. Chesnutt and others. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the 'bad boy's book' subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for this, his poetry, which included 'The Unguarded Gates' (p.71 in Volume 2).