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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881.
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JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881.
3 volumes, 8o. Half-titles, 24-page publisher's advertisements bound at the end of vol. III dated April, 1881. Original dark blue-green cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered (some wear at joints and ends of spine, a few repairs). Provenance: A.C. Edwards (ownership signature dated 1883 on half-titles); John K. Martin (bookplate on rear pastedowns).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, one of 750 copies, the ads dated April 1881. Edel and Laurence state that the April ads were probably inserted in copies of the first printing either through error or through shortage of the December 1881 ads. "Although Hawthorne had written of Americans in Europe, James brought them into the field of literature, they became his special subject, his donnée. It was through him that the world of the American expatriates first found its voice...The Portrait supplies a key theme to be revised by the Americans of the 'twenties, the expatriate Bohemians" (Conolly The Modern Movement 1). BAL 10553; Edel & Laurence A16a.
3 volumes, 8
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, one of 750 copies, the ads dated April 1881. Edel and Laurence state that the April ads were probably inserted in copies of the first printing either through error or through shortage of the December 1881 ads. "Although Hawthorne had written of Americans in Europe, James brought them into the field of literature, they became his special subject, his donnée. It was through him that the world of the American expatriates first found its voice...The Portrait supplies a key theme to be revised by the Americans of the 'twenties, the expatriate Bohemians" (Conolly The Modern Movement 1). BAL 10553; Edel & Laurence A16a.