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Click to view full description | 1. | Bennet, James Henry WINTER IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE
London John Churchill & Sons 1865 Third Edition Hardcover Very Good+
8vo; Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica, Sicily, and Biarritz, As Winter Climates. Bennet was a London medical doctor who visited Mentone for a winter rest cure. The first edition of this work was an essay on the winter climate and vegetation of the Mentone area. By this third edition, Bennet has greatly expanded the work covering six winters spent at the various destinations augmented with meteorological tables, temperature charts, and an index. Four colour maps (2 folding) - Sicily, Corsica, Mentone and Southern Europe - by Mr. Stanford of Charing Cross. Sixteen wood engravings by Butterworth and Heath, mostly taken from photographs by Davenne. Minor rubbing on rear board. Original green cloth with gilt lettering at spine and gilt image of a bird in flight on front cover. Pale yellow endpapers, unmarked.
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| 2. | Hocks, Richard A. ; [ William James & Henry James ] HENRY JAMES AND PRAGMATISTIC THOUGHT
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1974 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good- dustjacket
8vo; A study in the relationship between the philosophy of William James and the literary art of Henry James.Book is clean, tight - fine in original green cloth binding. Dust jacket has chipping at top of rear panel and spot where price label was removed from base of spine.
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| 3. | Hunt, James Henry Leigh ; Illustrated by C.T. Thompson THE TOWN - Its Memorable Characters and Events: St. Paul's to St. Jame's
London Unit Library 1903 Hardcover Very Good
8vo; xvi, 626, (6) pages; Illustrated with 2 full page plates and 27 text illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt decorative device on front cover. Former owner's name in pencil.
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| 4. | James, Henry DAISY MILLER - A Study
New York Heritage Press Hardcover Fine
8vo; Fine in Fine slipcase. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by Gustave Nebel. Introduction by John Holloway. Sandglass laid-in
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| 5. | James, Henry LE TOUR D'ECROU - Suivi de les Papiers de Jeffrey Aspern
Paris Librairie Stock 1929 Softcover Very Good
; 8vo; 342 & colophon pages; Publisher's printed wrappers, later glassine folding overlay. Wear, with short tears, at the ends of the spine, and lacking a small paper strip (1/4") along the spine near the gutter of the front cover. Very good. An "hors commerce" copy of the first French edition -- Traduit de l'anglais par M. Le Corbellier. Préface de Edmond Jaloux. The justification leaf states: Ouvrage tiré à 2.750 exemplaires numérotés, dont 100 hors commerces numérotés de 2.568 a 2.667 et marqués H.C. This copy is numbered 2.627 and is, indeed, marked "H.C." both on that leaf, and on the spine. First edition of the admired Le Corbellier translation (which is still the standard version of James' "Turn of the Screw" in French).
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| 6. | James, Henry NOTES OF A SON AND BROTHER
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1914 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good
; 1914 First Edition. 8vo. 515 pp. 6 illustrations, including a frontispiec e portrait reproducing a self-portrait drawing by William James. Publisher's olive-brown smooth ("sateen") cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. The spine is slightly soiled and darkened towards the bottom, There are faint marks along the fore-edge of both boards, and there is a half inch long chip missing from the bottom edge of the cloth of the front board. There is an ownership signature in ink, and the front inner hinge is cracking. Still -- a decent and pleasant copy of this fragile book. First American edition -- BAL 10679; Edel & Laurence A72a.
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| 7. | James, Henry PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Heritage Press 1967 Hardcover Fine
; 4to; 516 pages; Bound in lavender cloth with gilt lettering & decoration. Fine in VG slipcase. Illustrations by Colleen Browning.
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| 8. | James, Henry PORTRAITS OF PLACES
New York Lear Publishers 1948 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dustjacket
8vo; With an essay on James as a traveller by George Alvin Finch. James' travel sketches of the late 1870's. Small ink stain at top edge of pages.
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| 9. | James, Henry RODERICK HUDSON
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1961 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dustjacket
8vo; Introductory essay by Leon Edel. Binding somewhat cocked, otherwise clean & tight in nice dustjacket with some wear along top edge.
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| 10. | James, Henry THE AWKWARD AGE
New York Harper and Brothers 1899 First Edition Hardcover Very Good
; 8vo; Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on front and rear cover. First edition, first issue, measuring 1 5/8" thick. Paper over rear internal hinge starting, some wear at head & tail of spine.
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| 11. | James, Henry THE MIDDLE YEARS
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1917 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+
; 8vo. 119 pp. Frontispiece portrait (gravure from a photograph) . Publisher's olive-grey smooth ("sateen") cloth. The spine shows a tiny ding to the cloth along the gutter, and a minor chip (no loss) at the top edge. Pages 6 & 7 show a modest brown stain (from an inserted clipping? -- no longer present) . A pleasant copy of this posthumously published book (which was intended to be longer; this was edited by Percy Lubbock from dictation made by James in 1914) . First American edition. BAL 10700; Edel & Laurence A79b -- (one of 1, 275 copies printed).
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| 12. | James, Henry WASHINGTON SQUARE
New York Modern Library 1938 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dustjacket
; 8vo; Number 269. Per Toledano - Kent endpapers, Spine 8. Book lightly faded at outer edge, dustjacket has minor wear at head of spine.
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| 13. | Whittier, John Greenleaf ; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; James Russell Lowell CHRISTMASTIDE containing Four Famous Poems by Favorite American Poets
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1877 Hardcover Very Good+
; 8vo; Publisher's light brown cloth binding decoratively stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. 67 wood engravings, including four by Winslow Homer included in the poem Excelsior, and numerous others after Thomas Moran (6), Jervis McEntee (2), William Hart (2), Jessie Curtis (16), A. V. S. Anthony (10), A. R. Waud (8), Frank T. Merrill (3) and others. Poems include The River Path by John Greenleaf Whittier; Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Rose by James Russell Lowell; and Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. A very attractive book - a brief pencil inscription on blank (dated 1882) & some wear at lower corner of front board, otherwise a clean, tight very nice book.
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