JAMES, HENRY. Embarrassments: The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The Next Time, The Way It Came. London: William Heinemann 1896. 8vo, original light blue cloth, decorated in blind, gilt-lettered, uncut, half morocco slipcase. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO EDMUND GOSSE, inscribed: "To Edmund Gosse: Henry James, Point Hill, Sunday July 12th, 1896" ("To Edmund Gosse" in Gosse's hand, the rest of the inscription in James's). Tipped in at front is an autograph letter signed from James to Gosse [London], "Friday," n.d., 4 pages, 8vo, in which James in his convoluted style arranges a social meeting with Gosse and remarks: "Your letter is most delightful & touching, & gives to my appetite for your reminiscences a fairly wolfish edge..." (the letter not in Edel's edition). 32-page publisher's catalogue at end. BAL 10617; Edel & Laurence A46a. With the Gosse bookplate. The author and critic was a close friend of James from the early 1880s. A fine copy.