Description: Nice copy, complete of the October 1893 number of Harper's New Monthly Magazine is in very good condition. See photo #3 for complete contents. Illustrated throughout. 166 pages plus 92 pages of advertisements. Heavy. Outstanding content includes: A frontispiece drawn by artist Edwin Lord Weeks, "The Camel Caravan by Moonlight." The frontispiece heads Weeks' illustrated essay that opens the issue: "From the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf by Caravan." Charles D. Lanier's "Our National Game-bird" (Quail). Illustrated (6) by the able A.B. Frost. Part V of William Black's serial novel, with an illustration, The Handsome Humes, here first printed. Almost impossible to find today in its original first edition book form (1894). A new poem by Boston's own Annie Fields, Death, who art thou? Elizabeth Robins Pennell's "A French Town in Summer" with 21 illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Book reviews of note by Laurence Hutton on The Letters of James Russell Lowell; Henry B. Fuller's The Cliff-Dwellers; and, others on the works of Washington Irving, Henry James' stories in The Wheel of Time, William Dean Howells' Evening Dress, etc. A nice full page illustration of the day by George Du Maurier. See photo #4. If you think that all of Du Maurier's women look alike, you'd be right! Colonel T.A. Dodge's illustrated from photographs "Riders of Syria." Henry Van Dyke's (illustrated by photographs) "The Childhood of Jesus." Charles Dudley Warner on the Chicago World's Fair. Richard Harding Davis' "Undergraduate Life at Oxford," with illustrations by William Hatherell. Constance Fenimore Woolson's serial novel, Part X (conclusion) Horace Chase, here first printed. Harper's published the novel, her last, in book form after her early death in 1894. Francis Dana's new Story, "A Pirate in Petticoats." Carl Schurz's essay on the art of land grabbing, "Manifest Destiny." Other essays, articles, poems, etc. Loaded with advertisements. COLLECTIONS OF LITERATURE IN MY EBAY STORE. HERE YOU CAN FIND: SOME FIRST BOOK EDITIONS, HARD TO FIND LITERARY PERIODICALS OF ALL KINDS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, CRITICAL STUDIES, EPHEMERA, ETC. COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bishop, William H. Gass, William Logan, Thom Gunn, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Martin Heidegger, Allen Ginsberg, Cyril Connolly, William Wordsworth, Modernist Literature and Poetry, Paul De Man, Karen Solie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Muriel Spark, Jose Saramago, C.K. Williams, Early Christianity, Mary Karr, Robert Duncan, Naguib Mahfouz, Louise Gluck, Patricia Highsmith, Elfriede Jelinek, David Ferry, Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Pinsky, David Jones, Paul Celan, Bruce Chatwin, Henry Irving (actor), Walter de la Mare, Henry Adams, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Hugh Clough, etc. OTHERS IN PREPARATION INCLUDE: Edward Said, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Reznikoff, Max Beerbohm, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, George Meredith, Georges Simenon, Hamlin Garland, Roberto Bolano, Michael Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, David Foster Wallace, C.P. Cavafy, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Mew, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Charles Simic, W.H. Hudson, Fernando Pessoa, Henry James, W.S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz, Hilary Mantel, Clarice Lispector, Francine Prose, John Cowper Powys, Richard G. Stern, Hart Crane, and W.G. Sebald
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature, News
Publication Name: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Publication Frequency: Monthly
Features: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Publication Month: October
Publication Year: 1893
Language: English
Publisher: Harper's
Genre: History, Fiction, Travel, Poetry, Reviews
Contributors: Charles Dudley Warner, Laurence Hutton, Edwin Lord Weeks, George Du Maurier, Charles D. Lanier, William Black, Annie Fields, Mary Thacher Higginson, Henry Van Dyke, Francis Dana, Carl Schurz, Thomas Janvier, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Col. T.A. Dodge, Richard Harding Davis, Charles Roper, Others
