The listener in the town [and] The listener in the country. 2 volumes

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. 2 volumes. Joseph Edgar Chamberlin (1851-1935) was an American journalist and writer for newspapers in Chicago, Boston, and New York, plus for national magazines and journals. His writing career began in 1871 and continued until his death in 1935. He is most well-known for writing a daily column, The Listener, for the Boston Evening Transcript beginning in 1887. Through this column he became known as "The Listener of the Transcript." He was a friend and mentor to many aspiring writers, and he also had a close friendship with Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan for over 40 years. They frequented Chamberlin's home, Red Farm, and Keller lived with the family in 1896-97. According to an article on the American Foundation for the Blind website, written by Chamberlin's grandson, "Keller wrote that her Uncle Ed— whom she met when she was just eight years old, 'most enabled and sweetened my life.' She found him to be a tender and poetic man; a man who lived 'in the service of words,' cared deeply about social issues and the natural world, and was a sympathetic and understanding friend and mentor." This two-volume set is a collection of essays from The LIstener on observations made in the city and country. Essays and fragments are reprinted, with modifications, from the Boston "Transcript". Bound in the original green cloth boards lettered in gold on the spines and front covers. Minor wear to the extremities and offsetting to endpapers. Minor offsetting to endpapers, else clean interiors. 142 pages in volume one; 126 pages in volume two. This set may require an extra shipping fee. LIT/102616.