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Henry James | First Editions
1843 - 1916
Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism, and is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. In addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays. James alternated between America and Europe for the first twenty years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
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The Outcry.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Classic Literature] First Edition, the UK and US editions being published simultaneously. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 261; [1]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown, dated..... More
The Portrait of a Lady.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [American-English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 9cm), pp.266, 253, 248. With all half-titles present, publisher's 24-page catalogue (dated April 1881) to rear of the final volume. Handsomely bound in half brown polished morocco, gilt, by Trevor Lloyd M.B.E., with raised..... More
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The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... More
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some..... More
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