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ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907). The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. New York: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1897-1907. 8vos. Illustrated with photogravure frontispieces. 9 volumes plus the 10th volume, The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Ferris Greenslet. Uniformly bound in publisher's polished cream buckram backstrips over boards, printed paper labels on spines (spines toned, soiled, occasional rubbing, soiling to boards, occasional bumping to boards, some minor occasional foxing to text). Near fine. COPY #1/250 OF THE LARGE PAPER EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ALDRICH ON THE FFEP. OF VOLUME I: “For Mr. E. B. Holden Thomas Bailey Aldrich. November 1897." The recipient was Edwin Babcock Holden (1861-1906) was a well-known collector and was an early president of The Grolier Club. The Life volume is #1/500. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New England-based poet, novelist, Civil War correspondent and editor who counted among his wide circle of friends such notables as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Whistler, Longfellow, and most significantly, Mark Twain, with whom he remained close for forty years. Aldrich's semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (included here) is considered by many critics to be the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction, and was a direct influence on, and indeed inspired, the writing of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, as Twain readily admitted.
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