Later Years (First Edition)

Prime, William Cowper

Published by New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854

About this Item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. First edition. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to extremities, corners slightly worn, internally clean and sound. Octavo, 353 pages. A mid-career work by journalist, travel writer, and Princeton professor William Cowper Prime, "Later Years" blends fiction and reflective travelogue, notable for incorporating early railroad imagery and mid-19th-century social commentary. Prime also authored Tent Life in the Holy Land and Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia, and later became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Later Years (First Edition)
• Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers
• Publication Date: 1854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket