Mike's Library

The Green Vase

Castle, William Richards Jr.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1912.

First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #13950

Cloth spotted, both hinges just starting, white spine lettering faded, cocked, tone, owners' signatures, wear. Still solid hardcover. ; First novel, an attack on Boston society, written while an Assistant Dean at Harvard that appears to have coincided with his departure from that post. Castle, a Hawaii-born grandson of the founder of Castle and Cook, had a later career as an American diplomat and Under Secretary of State. ; 406 pages.

Price: $39.95