HOWELLS, William Dean [SIGNED]; [JAMES, William]; [ASSOCIATION COPY]

The Minister's Charge [INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM JAMES]; or the Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Half-title, 24 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt.
Association copy, inscribed by Howells to William James on the front free endpaper: "William James / With best regards. / W. D. Howells." In BAL's second binding, with spine imprint of Houghton Mifflin & Co.

William Dean Howells, an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, widely referred to as "The Dean of American Letters," is distinguished for his editorial contributions to The Atlantic Monthly, along with his notable novels The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and A Traveler from Altruria (1894). In 1860, he visited Boston, Massachusetts, where he interacted with esteemed authors such as James T. Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He formed significant personal connections with several eminent personalities, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
William James was a leading thinker of the late 19th century, and one of the most influential philosophers of the United States. He is considered the "Father of American psychology."

Minor rubbing to joints and extremities; small bump on fore-edge of lower board; hinges cracked. (BAL 9627)

Provenance: William James (presentation inscription); purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, Inc., 17 December 1971. From the library of noted book collector William A. Strutz. Very good. Item #7237

Price: $1,200.00