The Flowering of New England 1815-1865.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. [4], 550 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with tan cloth spine. Wear and scuffing to boards, bumping to corners, small bump to top center of front board, light staining at base of boards, rear exterior hinge beginning to tear at base. Age toning to endpapers. Encased in a fitted mylar dust jacket.
Inscribed by E. B. White (1899-1985) to his wife, Katharine S. White (1892-1977) in pencil on the first free endpaper: "To My wife Katharine - who flowered right in it. August 1936." Katharine S. White was the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker where she met E.B. White in the late 1920s; they were married in 1929. From the Estate..... More