'01 James Fields PUBLISHING Thackeray HAWTHORNE Dickens

 1901 James Fields PUBLISHING Thackeray HAWTHORNE Dickens…..

Nice 1901 copy of YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS, by James T. Fields. In it, Fields speaks of the publishing business, and of his relationships and impressions of Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens,  Wordsworth and others. James Thomas Fields (1817 –1881) was an American publisher and author. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he became a partner in the publishing and bookselling firm Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. Fields was the publisher of leading contemporary American writers, with whom he was on terms of close personal friendship.  Author Rebecca Harding Davis said of him, he was "the shrewdest of publishers and kindest of men. He was the wire that conducted the lightning so that it never struck amiss.”

YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS,  James T. Fields,  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1901.  5.5 x 8 inches.  Brown cloth covers, great shape.   Bright gilt on front and spine.  Owner’s bookplate on pastedown. Interior is clean and bright.  Tight binding. Condition:  good+…

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