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Henry James, 1881
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James, 1881
JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881.
First edition, first printing, one of 750 copies, the advertisements 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” (Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement 1). BAL 10553; Edel & Laurence A16a.
Three volumes, octavo. Half-titles, 24-page publisher's advertisements bound at the end of vol. III dated April 1881. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered (very neat repairs to spines: vol. 1 rebacked with original spine laid down and vol. 3 recased, minor leans, label removed from upper covers of vols 2 & 3); chemises, custom green calf slipcase.
Henry James, 1881
JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881.
First edition, first printing, one of 750 copies, the advertisements 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” (Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement 1). BAL 10553; Edel & Laurence A16a.
Three volumes, octavo. Half-titles, 24-page publisher's advertisements bound at the end of vol. III dated April 1881. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered (very neat repairs to spines: vol. 1 rebacked with original spine laid down and vol. 3 recased, minor leans, label removed from upper covers of vols 2 & 3); chemises, custom green calf slipcase.
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