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The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams, 1907 ADAMS, Henry (1838-1918). The Education of Henry Adams. Washington: Privately printed, 1907. First edition, one of only 40 copies printed. Charles Thwing's copy, with Adams's note to him laid down on the front endpaper: "Take your old book! It’s a rotten one anyway.” Adams would accept an honorary doctor of laws degree from Thwing, who was President of Western Reserve University and also a former student of Adams’s. The text of Education was not made commercially available until 1918, following the author's death, when it was published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1919 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Modern Library named it as the best non-fiction book published in English since 1900. BAL 32; Narratives of Personal Experience 2 ("certainly one of the great American biographies"). Quarto (322 x 247mm). Original blue cloth, leather spine label (stain to front cover, extremities rubbed, front hinge cracked). Custom chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Charles Franklin Thwing, 1853-1937, American clergyman and educator (bookplate and ownership inscription).