London New York : Macmillan, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 408 pages + [6] pages publisher's advertisements ; 19 cm. Notes; Publisher's device facing title page. Contents; Emerson.--The life of George Eliot.--Daniel Deronda; a conversation.--Anthony Trollope.--Robert Louis Stevenson.--Miss Woolson.--Alphonse Daudet.--Guy de Maupassant.--Ivan Turg�nieff.--George Du Maurier.--The art of fiction. Subjects; Du Maurier, George. Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. Maupassant, Guy de. Daudet, Alphonse. Woolson, Constance Fenimore. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Trollope, Anthony. Eliot, George. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Fiction.

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Bookseller: MW Books Ltd. (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 408267
Title: Partial portraits / by Henry James
Author: James, Henry (1843-1916)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: London New York : Macmillan
Date Published: 1894

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