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Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. Copyright 1918 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Published September 1918 — the first trade edition (privately printed in a tiny 1907 run; this is the first public edition). Won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.
Adams’s classic third-person autobiography: Boston upbringing, diplomacy, the dynamo vs. the Virgin, and the failure of 19th-century education in the modern world.
Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles and Riverside Press device. Front free endpaper inscribed “Mary Hallock Foote / To Janet.” Cloth shows slight rubbing, mottling, and wear at spine ends; pages toned. Binding sound and pages legible. Please see photos.