The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (10 volume set, Fine Binding) Including The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Ferris Greenslet

Houghton Mifflin, 1907

[Fine binding: An attractive set: the First volume contains an autograph letter signed by Aldrich]  Ponkapog Edition. Complete in 10 volumes; including a supplemental volume: The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Ferris Greenslet. Bound in 3/4 black morocco.  Gilt spine compartments.  Top edges gilt. Clean, unmarked pages. A color frontispieces.  Minor shelf wear.  Contents:  I-II. The poems; III. Marjorie Daw, and other stories; IV. Prudence Palfrey, and A Rivermouth romance; V. The queen of Sheba and My cousin the colonel;  VI. The Stillwater tragedy;  VII. The story of a bad boy, The little violinist, and other sketches;  VIII. From Ponkapog to Pesth and An old town by the sea;  IX. Ponkapog papers, A sea turn and other papers. 

The first volume has the original ownership page from Houghton Mifflin to J. Levering Jones. Jones (1851–1920) was a prominent and highly successful corporate attorney in Philadelphia (UPENN Law, 1875).  His mansion in Chestnut Hill is one of the St. Martin's neighborhood's largest.   (*Autographed by author.*)