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Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint. A small, hardbound (though publisher originally listed as "flexible cloth") 32mo in the Harper's "Half-Hour Series," grade it "very good" with a noticeable diagonal crease to bottom right corner of front board and FFE. Also some rub to head and heel of spine, but still tight enough to close its own boards and text block. Dated 1878 to copyright page; stamping in red ink to bottom of front board reads "copyright 1877, by Harper & Brothers," but there is NO date to title page, indicating this is NOT the first printing. (First printings are dated 1879 to title page; we offer one of those, separately.) Duplicated line to bottom of pg. 44 / top of pg. 45 (which is a first edition point) has been CORRECTED, here. (There was also a version in wraps, which is to say, "softcover.") 100 books in the series listed in the preliminary matter, including this title, which is No. 91. (True firsts list only 87 titles, here.) 99th title listed is "The Awakening," by Katharine S. Macquold; 100th title listed is "Ballads of Battle and Bravery," selected by W. Gordon McCabe. We have been unable to establish Harper's publication dates for either of these titles -- publication date for this volume may actually be as much as a few years later than the traditional 1879 publication date listed. Previous owner's name Frank N. Latimer written diagonally to FFE. The Frank N. and Fannie Allen Latimer House, an impressive brick Victorian built by pharmacist Frank and his second wife, the former Fannie Foster Allen, in 1885, is now the Inn at Ludington, Michigan. "An International Episode" can be seen as a companion piece to the similarly brief "Daisy Miller." It was published a few months after "Daisy Miller," in the December, 1878, and January, 1879, editions of Cornhill Magazine in England. Both stories develop James’ international theme — the collisions between the staid, cynical old world of Europe and the brash, often naive Americans. PLEASE NOTE: As ever, Cat's Curiosities will be happy to accept credit or debit cards via the ABE Web site card processor for purchase of this book. Alternatively, we'll be equally happy to email a PayPal invoice, and wait up to 36 hours for your PayPal payment. No personal checks accepted; no credit card numbers taken over the phone. This book will be dispatched via U.S. Postal Service Priority mail, insured, and we'll pay for the insurance. This volume totals 136 pp. followed by 8 pp. (not 6 pp.) publisher's ads. Reduced from $520.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A small, hardbound 32mo in the Harper's "Half-Hour Series," grade it "very-good-plus" with some rub to corners and to the head and heel of spine, but still tight enough to close its own boards and text block. Dated 1878 to copyright page and 1879 to title page, while stamping in red ink to bottom of front board reads "copyright 1877, by Harper & Brothers." This is the first state of the hardcover, with the last line of pg. 44 duplicated to the top of pg. 45. (There was also a version in wraps, which is to say, "softcover," also 1879.) 87 books in the series listed in the preliminary matter, not including this title, which was actually No. 91. Tacked to the FFE is a small and well-preserved piece of newsprint offering a biography of the author and his family ("He is unmarried and lives at present in London," it says, while his brother William James is "one of the instructors in physiology in Harvard College.") "An International Episode" can be seen as a companion piece to the similarly brief "Daisy Miller." It was published a few months after "Daisy Miller," in the December, 1878, and January, 1879, editions of Cornhill Magazine in England. Both stories develop James’s international theme — the collisions between the staid, cynical old world of Europe and the brash, often naive Americans. PLEASE NOTE: As ever, Cat's Curiosities will be happy to accept credit or debit cards via the ABE Web site card processor for purchase of this book. No personal checks accepted; no credit card numbers taken over the phone. This book will be dispatched via U.S. Postal Service, insured, and we'll pay for the insurance.) This volume totals 136 pp. followed by 6 pp. publisher's ads. Reduced from $1,000.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry, Jr.. Daisy Miller A Study. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1879.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [N.d., ca. 1879]. First edition, later issue. Issued as Harper's Half-Hour Series .This issue proceeds the first english edition. This copy with copyright date of 1877 at front wrapper, date of 1878 at copyright page, no date at title page and 120 titles for this series listed in ads. Twelvemo. (Measures 4 13/16 x 3 1/8 inches). [1], 116; 12 ads, pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers lettered in black and red, rebacked in tan cloth. Previous owner's signature on first page, newspaper clipping mounted to last page. Front cover chipped at corners. Overall, very good copy of this fragile book. "[Daisy Miller] deals with an unsophisticated, 'strikingly, admirably pretty' girl from Schenectady traveling through Europe who runs athwart the conventions of a group of Europeanized Americans who enforce the rules of the older European community with unthinking severity. The book aroused controversy when it first appeared, some reviewers taking it as a libel on American manners, but it later became one of the most popular of James's writings." (Benét's 247) BAL 10538. Benet's 247. HBS 67239. $500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry Jr.. Daisy Miller, A Study. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1879.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, later issue. Original printed publisher's wrappers. 16vo. Part of the publisher's "Half-Hour Series" and one of James's scarcest titles. This copy with copyright date of 1877 at front wrapper, date of 1878 at copyright page, no date at title page and 100 titles for this series listed in ads. First Issue has 78 listed titles in ads and date of 1879 at title page. This present copy is a very early printing. A very nice unsophisticated crisp example of this very fragile book, with only minor edge wear and with only a cm of spine paper lacking at lower spine end, else wrappers complete and clean.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.