New York: Octagon Books. Very Good-; Lacks the DJ. Ex-library, inkstamps to top of block, front endpaper, and title page, all cancelled with marker. Pasted down pocket roughly removed from front endpaper. Spine ends and corners bumped. Slightest wrinkles to cloth on front cover. Dings to edges of covers. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. From an age when letter writing was an art of the cultured and educated, this is a compilation of the personal correspondence of historian and novelist Henry Adams. Taken from letters held by the family. Recounts the life and political environment in mid-to-late 1800s Washington DC, correspondence with friends, family, and associates. His letters reveal an inteliigent and practical man of relentless wit. Frontis of Adams. Wonderful primary source material for the historian. Indexed. 1970[1947]. Conservatively VG-, but a very clean copy that's better than the description "reads." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 797 pages .