JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The American Scene. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY JAMES LAID-IN, 27 April [1898], Rome, to Jeannette Gilder. James writes to Gilder, editor of The Critic in New York, thanking her for sending recent issues of the journal. He sternly declines her invitation to submit a piece to the paper: "I did a good deal of tie writing at one time, but only because I was obliged to. I am not obliged to now..." With original envelope. BAL 10663. -- The Princess Casamassima. London: Macmillan, 1886. Three volumes. PRESENTATION COPY, with an inserted leaf in vol. I with printed "From the Author" and name of Florence Bell in manuscript; with her signatures dated October 1886 in vols. II and III. BAL 10577. -- Watch and Ward. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878. First printing. BAL 10535. -- Confidence. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1880. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10549. -- The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, second issue. BAL 10554. -- Portraits of Places. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1884. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10563. -- The Reverberator. London: Macmillan, 1888. BAL 10582. -- The Lesson on the Master. New York and London: Macmillan, 1892. BAL 10596. -- Terminations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. FIRST PUBLISHED AMERICAN EDITION (a prior edition was published for copyright purposes only). BAL 10614. -- The Other House. New York: Macmillan, 1896. FIRST PUBLISHED AMERICAN EDITION (a prior edition was published for copyright purposes only). BAL 10621. -- What Maisie Knew. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1897. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10627. -- The Golden Bowl. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1904. Two volumes. BAL 10659. [With:] JAMES, William. A Pluralistic Universe. New York: Longmans, Green, 1909. --Memories and Studies. New York: Longmans, Green, 1911. Together 17 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, 12o and 8o, original bindings. Provenance: Frederick W. Skiff (bookplates in some); Estelle Doheny (paper bookplates). A FINE COLLECTION. (17)