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JAMES, WILLIAM. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Longmans, Green 1902. 8vo, original blue cloth, printed paper spine label, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and portion of sides faded. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to the celebrated innovative president of Harvard on the front free endpaper (offset from leather bookplate opposite on part of inscription): "Charles W. Eliot with affectionate regards, from William James, June 21st, 1902" (June was publication month; James of course was one of Harvard's most important professors). Merle Johnson (3rd. ed., 1936), p. 266). Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart.

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JAMES, WILLIAM. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Longmans, Green 1902. 8vo, original blue cloth, printed paper spine label, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and portion of sides faded. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to the celebrated innovative president of Harvard on the front free endpaper (offset from leather bookplate opposite on part of inscription): "Charles W. Eliot with affectionate regards, from William James, June 21st, 1902" (June was publication month; James of course was one of Harvard's most important professors). Merle Johnson (3rd. ed., 1936), p. 266). Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart.