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Golden Bowl
by Henry James
The Golden Bowl, Henry James’ last completed
novel, is widely considered to be one of the author’s best works (along with
The Ambassadors and The Wings of a Dove). In it, James continues to explore his
favored themes of marriage, money, and psychological warfare. The novel, set in
England, tells the story of American heiress Maggie Verver, who is engaged to
Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince. Maggie’s father, Adam, travels to
London for the wedding and meets Charlotte Stant, a friend of both... Read more about this item
novel, is widely considered to be one of the author’s best works (along with
The Ambassadors and The Wings of a Dove). In it, James continues to explore his
favored themes of marriage, money, and psychological warfare. The novel, set in
England, tells the story of American heiress Maggie Verver, who is engaged to
Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince. Maggie’s father, Adam, travels to
London for the wedding and meets Charlotte Stant, a friend of both... Read more about this item
A Little Tour In France
by Henry James
A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively revised edition was published in 1900.
Henry James Books & Ephemera
New Essays on the American
by Banta, Martha
London: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Spine a little age-toned. 172 pages. Analysis and discussion about Henry James' novel 'The American'. The American Novel series. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
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$9.26
Henry James e L'Italia
by Cristina Giorcelli
Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 159 pagine, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, rough-cut edges, wraps age-toned and lightly soiled, pages age-tanned and unmarked. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), who lectured on American literature in Italy under the Fulbright program.
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$15.00
Explorations: Essays in criticism mainly on the literature of the seventeenth century
by Knights, L. C
London: Peregrine,. Paperback. 202pp. Cover 17th century as well as several essays on Shakespeare and ones on George Herbert, Henry James and W. B. Yeats. A little dusty and well thumbed with moderate creasing to spine. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Reading copy only. . Paperback. 1964.
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$3.80
A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence
by LASKIN, David
New York: Simon and Schuster. 1994. Octavo Size. Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 460 pages.. Tells of 4 friendships that helped define the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$11.91
English Hours
by James, Henry
London: Barrie & Jenkins. 1989. Oblong Octavo. VERY GOOD condition. No dustjacket (As issued??) Decorated green cloth boards. Colour and black & white illustrations. 222 pages. Henry James' letters about England were written in various periodicals during the period 1870-1890 and first published as a collection in 1905 as "English Hours". Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Hardback.
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$13.23
Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Story of Their Friendship
by Bell, Millicent
New York: George Braziller,. Hardback. 384pp. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Very faded to the spine. Good, sound copy. . Hardcover. 1965.
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$13.94
Transatlantic Crossing. American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century
by Allen, Walter [Editor]
London: Heinemann. 1971. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. DJ has 'grubby'appearance with marks to front and slightly age-darkened spine. 332 pages. Selected and with an Introduction by the Editor, this is an anthology of the findings and observations of some forty travellers between the two countries. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all...
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$9.26
The Death and Letters of Alice James. Selected Correspondence with a Biographical Essay
by Yeazell, Ruth Bernard (Edited by)
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. 1983. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good - card covers 214pages. The neglected sister of Henry and William James, who wrote a muchly admired diary. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.
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$16.54
The Scenic Art: Notes on Acting & the Drama, 1872-1901
by Henry James, ed. Allan Wade
Hill and Wang, Inc., 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 384 pages, with index and appendix - i.d. blurbs on actors, actresses, playwrights and plays. 32 essays on the English, French and American theatre, actors, and playwrights. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Allan Wade. Foreword by Leon Edel. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.
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$5.00
The American Novel through Henry James
by C. Hugh Holman
Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 102 pages, with index. Reference work published within the Goldentree Bibliographies series, lists writers, their works, and literary criticism written about them. Cover 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", stapled beige glossy wraps, small tear in front cover upper left, chip at top of back cover. Text clean and unmarked.
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$5.00
Italian Hours
by Henry James
Grove Press, Inc., 1979. Soft cover. Good. 376 pages, with index. First Black Cat edition of collection of Travel Essays first issued 1959, the essays variously dated up to 1909. Venice, Florence, Rome, Siena, Ravenna, Tuscany are subjects. Mass-market paperback, spine creased, corners worn, water stain at top right of front; edges, page margins and especially end papers age-tanned. Underscoring and/or marks in margin of a few pages, notes written on inside back cover.
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$4.00
Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843-75
by James, Henry and edited by Leon Edel
London: Macmillan,. Hardback. 493pp. Black and white frontis and 13 further plates. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is somewhat rubbed to the lower edge. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardcover. 1974.
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$15.84
Banquet of the Mind
by Anderson, Don (ed.)
Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia. 2000. Very Good condition. Page edges slightly tanned. 306 pages. Stories of food and feasting, wining and dining. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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$9.26
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Notes of a Son and Brother [Geoffrey Grigson's copy]
by JAMES, Henry
London: Macmillan & Co., 1914. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +. Lrge 8vo. In blue publisher's cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine. pp.vii, 479 + [2] pub's ads. w/ 6 illus, inc tissue guarded frontispiece of a pencil drawing of James "drawn by himself". Pages rough trimmed. Minor wear to tips, spine ends, cloth a little dull, still a very nice, clean copy in firm binding. Note of bookseller Alan Tucker to flyleaf, 'Geoffrey Grigson's copy'.
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$38.77
Henry James's Criticism
by ROBERTS, Morris [Henry James]
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. First edition. Boards. Very Good/No DJ. Sm 8vo. Half cloth, patterned paper over boards. pp. 130. Front board slightly bowed, flyleaf clipped to top right corner, rubs to spine ends, still a sound, clean copy.
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$5.47
The American Scene together with Three Essays from "Portraits of Places
by Henry James
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 501 pages. Edited with an Introduction by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates at the end. Profiles of New England, New York City, Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Richmond, Charleston (SC), Florida, upstate NY. 8vo, green cloth with faded gilt lettering, boards rubbed and frayed, backstrip separating but reglued, edges and page margins age-toned. Name of former owner Prof. Warner...
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$12.00
THE WHOLE FAMILY: A NOVEL BY TWELVE AUTHORS
by [JAMES, Henry; HOWELLS, W. D.; et. al.]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner presentation Christmas 1908 on the front pastedown. Near Fine example of this attractive binding. Alice Barber Stephens. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. BAL 10667. Among the other authors who contribute a chapter to this most curious book are W. D. Howells (BAL 9790), Mary W. Freeman (BAL 6389), and John Kendrick Bangs (BAL 779). Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.
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$106.30
The Ambassadors (Everyman's Library No. 987)
by James, Henry
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. 1959. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine very lightly faded. Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Small ink notation to lower portion of page 370. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 370pp. . Reprint. Hardback.
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$11.91
GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB: "Address on Henry James"
by (AUDEN, W. H.)
[New York]: Grolier Club, Feb. 1947. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. Stapled wraps. An 18-page essay by Auden on Henry James. Also includes an essay by Clifton Fadiman as well as a catalogue of the Henry James exhibition at the Grolier Club. Bloomfield & Mendelson C312.
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$62.50
Henry James and Edith Wharton; Letters: 1900-1915
by POWERS, Lyall H., edited by
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Owner's name on front fly verso, spine slightly cocked, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper.
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$20.00
Who's Who in Henry James
by Leeming, Glenda
London: Elm Tree Books,. Hardback. An A-Z of nearly 600 characters from Henry James' 20 novels and 5 longer novellas works. Also lists animals and other non-human characters and is indexed by character by book. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is very neat though slightly faded. Very good copy in very good dw. . Hardcover. 1976.
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$6.97
The Challenge of Bewilderment Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
by Armstrong, Paul B
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xii, 276 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$14.55
Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
Volume 1 ONLY of a two-volume set. Dark blue cloth with gilt on front and spine. Bottom edge of text block is deckled. B&W frontispiece of author; tipped-in protective tissue is intact.Copyright page states date as 1909; FON on FFEP is dated 1924. FON appears written on FFEP, stamped on FFEP, on bookplate inside front cover, and for good measure, on the back of the frontispiece.Cover has some stains and wear. Pages are age tanned.
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$20.00
Henry James and Edith Wharton - Letters: 1900-1915
by Powers, Lyall H. (ed.)
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Spine is a little cocked and nick to board spine side near foot. Light foxing to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean, text is clear throughout. TA. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.
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$11.40
Henry James: Letters to A C Benson and Auguste Monod; now first published, and edited with an Introduction by E F Benson (LIMITED EDITION)
by E. F. Benson
Elkin Matthews and Marrot, London, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition. number 574 of an edition limited to 1050 copies; limitation page; title page & introduction by E. F. Benson to front. Arthur Christopher Benson, (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1884, Benson met Henry James, who would later become a close friend. These letters of Henry James to Arthur...
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$31.67
