Search Results: a victorian in the modern world by hutchins hapgood

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Signed. Inscribed and signed on ffep, apparently to artist Charley (Charles) Kaeselau. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; lightly rubbed at extremities and edges faded. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Rough-trimmed side edges. Dustjacket is very worn with detached but present rear flap. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'Hutchins Hapgood in his day was more famous than Lincoln Steffens and most of his other contemporaries. He has been called the noblest Roman of them all because, by and large, he was the only one of a celebrated group of world-shakers who frankly and consciously felt himself to be a Victorian. Unlike Mabel Dodge and Lincoln Steffens and John Reed and the rest,… Read More