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Henry James. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin and Company,, 1905.
Price: US$5.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Former owner's name on front page. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin, 1905.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very solid overall. Pencilled signature on fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Gilt on boards (including cover illustration) and top edge is resonant. Binding and hinges sound. Some very minor wear to bottom board edges and base of spine.
Seller: Silent Way Books, Glenside, PA, U.S.A.
Henry James. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half red leather. Rubbing at edges. General shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
James, Henry -- Pennell, Joseph, illustrations. ENGLISH HOURS. Houghton Mifflin and co, 1905.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ----------Dark cloth covers with gilt design on cover, gilt top pages. Book is 8" tall. 336 pages with more than 70 illustrations.VERY GOOD CONDITION, solid book and hinges, half of rear flyleaf is missing, with old signature on flyleaf, and light edgewear cover only- - - no dust jacket.
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 336 pp., First printing of the first American edition.
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1905.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1905. Scarlet cloth binding. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 6317
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
English hours. Henry James. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xii, 336 pages : illustrations. Publisher's decorative cloth good, wear to corners and to head and foot of spine; inner hinges cracked, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, contents clean. First edition, later printing. 720 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
James, Henry,. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover.335pp Illustrations, notes by author and publisher, uncut pages. Covers have slight wrinkle near bottom edge and light wear to edges of cover Light moisture stain on bottom inside corner on first several pages
Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Description: Navy cloth with gilt illustration of the Thames; 336 pp. with 79 bw bw illustrations; With illustrations by Joseph Pennell; covers many regions of England, with stops in London, Chester, Devon, Wells and Salisbury, various abbeys and castles, Suffolk, and more; delightful writing and lovely illustrations. Very good, clean and tight but for slight rubbing to back cover and art museum library marks, including bookplate and spine sticker;
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 330 pages including many illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1905 as the most recent date. The dust jacket is over 99% intact with some light chipping on the corners and on the top of the spine, light edgewear and light soiling. I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!
Seller: THIS OLD BOOK, Brookfield, IL, U.S.A.
James, Henry.. English Hours.. Houghton Mifflin., Boston., 1905.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: States "Published October, 1905" on the copyright page. weight: 1.7 b. Very good. ink name to pastedown. Numerous lithograph plates. Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. 20x12.5 cm. xii, 336 pp. Green cloth, light green and gilt decorations, top edge gilt.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. ENGLISH HOURS. Houghton, Mifflin And Company, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good (covers unrubbed, nice & bright; contents clean & tight. Interesting presentation (as a wedding gift) on the front endpaper. Small 8vo., pictorial dark-green cloth, stamped in gilt & white on front cover & spine, top edge gilt; 336 pages First Edition, later printing without the date on the title page. A collection of periodical pieces written over a span of 30 years about his travels and favorite sites.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: List of illustrations throughout Illustrated Edittion Name wrlitten on front flyleaf.
Seller: BROWNVILLE EDUCATION CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BROWNVILLE, NE, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 336 pages. Beautfiul gilt and sihouette vignette of the London skyline. 80 black and white drawings A touch of edgewear, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. A beautifully illustrated book based on James' extensive travels throughout England. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry James. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, gilt stamped pictorial black cloth, bevelled pages, gilt topstain, 336pp. First Illustrated Edition, published following the first edition, with pen and ink illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Half title page tipped in, appearing to separate, else binding firm, contents clean. A collection of travel writing and essays on England, a companion to James earlier work Italian Hours. A handsome copy of a very presentable edition.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative green boards with stamped gilt designs and gilt lettering; gilt page edges. Illustrated. Boards with light wear to the edges; previous owner's inscription on inside end page. First U.S. Edition.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, xii, 336 pp, 80 black & white illustrations. Black cloth with gray rules on spine and front cover, gilt and gray silhouette of London skyline seen from the Thames. Extremities of spine frayed, neat gift inscription at top of front paste-down.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Us Edition. Hardback 8vo.pp. 336. Fine black and white illustrations and full-size plates by Joseph Pennell. Original publisherÕs cloth binding in black, lettered gilt at spine with linear borders and a silhouette illustration of London backlit in gilt. Neat name on front end paper:Grace S. Harding. Very good indeed. Very faint rubbing at extremities.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin 1905, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Joseph Pennell First ed. VG
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; trade (ordinary) issue. Fine in a chipped dust jacket with numerous interior tape mends. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 336 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; James, Henry 1843-1916 Travel England. Authors, American 19th century Travel England. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Henry James. ENGLISH HOURS [First UK illustrated edition]. William Heinemann, London, 1905.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first illustrated edition, published by William Heinemann in October 1905. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Joseph Pennell, including some full-page tissue-guarded plates. The illustrated edition was also published in the USA by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston in 1905. ***Very good in green cloth-covered boards, with a darker green cloth-covered spine, and gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still quite bright. The boards are clean and unmarked, just slightly worn and rubbed at the edges, and slightly creased at the head and tail of the spine. Corners just very lightly creased. The bottom edge of the page block is untrimmed. Internally also very good, with just some offsetting to the front and rear free endpapers and some foxing to the preliminaries. No inscriptions. The contents are clean and unmarked. Although heavy art paper has been used in the production, there is no splitting to the binding and the spine is tight. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***210mm x 160mm. 315 pages. ***Contents: Author's note to this edition dated 1905, and then chapters on: London (1888), Browning in Westminster Abbey (1890), Chester (1872), Lichfield and Warwick (1872), North Devon (1872), Wells and Salisbury (1872), An English Easter (1877), London at Midsummer (1877), Two Excursions (1877), In Warwickshire (1877), Abbeys and Castles (1877), English Vignettes (1879), An English New Year (1879), An English Winter Watering-place (1879), Winchelsea, Rye and "Denis Duval", Old Suffolk (1879). ***'x.' (Quote taken from the prefatory note by the author) ***A first printing of the illustrated edition of "English Hours" by Henry James, in very nice collectable condition. Printed on heavy quality paper and profusely illustrated with drawings by Joseph Pennell. Of interest to collectors of the writing of Henry James, and the artwork of Joseph Pennell. A scarce item in such nice original condition now, and a lovely production. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 336 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; James, Henry 1843-1916 Travel England. Authors, American 19th century Travel England. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1905.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. A collection of periodical pieces written over a span of thirty years. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Black cloth binding, with ruling in yellow, titling in gilt on the spine. The front cover features a harbour scene in black, gray, and gilt; quite lovely. Clean text; xii, 335 pages, indexed; with numerous illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Previous-owner signature (1910) on the front paste-down; tiny Brentano's sticker on the rear paste-down; the rear free endpaper has been removed. Rubbed to a slight fray at the corners and the tips of the spine, but really a very respectable copy. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Joseph Pennell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st US edition. Green cloth boards with gold embossed design and light green lettering, gold top edge. Cloth on front cover is torn, but inner pages are tight and bright. Illustrations throughout. Collection of essays about areas and times in England: Chester, Lichfield and Warwick, North Devon, Wells and Salisbury, London, old Suffolk. Edited by Jospeh Pennell. 1 lb 10.1 oz
Seller: Clio and Erato Books, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. ENGLISH HOURS.WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH PENNELL. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Gilt pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Frontis and plates. First U.S. trade edition. Spine ends trifle worn, few light spots on lower cover, otherwise a very good, bright copy. EDEL & LAURENCE A62b. BAL 10661(n).
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Henry James. English Hours. Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1905.
Price: US$129.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1905,First printing thus (first trade edition). A near-fine copy. A clean copy with some underlining from prior owner. Red linen boards with gilded title on front board surrounded by leaf emblem.Spine is worn and impossible to see title. Front endpaper has person's signature, assuming that of prior owner. Beautifully illustrated by Joseph Pennell
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half red leather over marbled boards, spine is lavishly decorated in gilt, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Frontis illustration with tissue guard. Pages are gilt-edged on top, rough cut on sides. Illustrated throughout. Slight edgewear at top spine and corners. Published October 1905 on copyright page. A handsome copy.
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
James, Henry. English Hours & A Little Tour in France. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two books by Henry James, both in very good condition. Both books have numerous illustrations by Joseph Pennell. (1) English Hours. 1905. Dark green cloth covered boards with stamped text and multi-ruled panels in cream-green on front panel; spine has similar panels with gilt text. Front panel has stamped illustration in gilt and gray. Upper page edges are gilt. Side and lower page edges are age-toned. Outermost edges at head and tail of board spine are rubbed and fraying. Fore-edge corner tips are rubbed through. Scuffs on lower board edges but are not rubbed through. Previous owner's inscription on FFEP. Occasional small pencilled margin notes and underlines. (2) A Little Tour in France. 1900. Second edition, first thus, illustrated. Dark green cloth covered boards with stamped text and multi-ruled panels in cream-green on front panel; spine has similar stamped panels with gilt text andcream-greenfleur de lis. Front panel has stamped illustration in gilt, dark red and cream-green. The giltin the illustration is partially rubbed and there is a puncture toward the bottom of the left tower; the puncture carries through to some extent as far as Contents page x. Upper page edges are gilt. Side page edges are untrimmed and side and lower page edges are age-toned.Outermost edges at head and tail of board spine are split and fraying. Fore-edge corner tips are rubbed through. Scuffs on lower board edgesand less on upper board edges, but are not rubbed through. Minimal foxing on end papers. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.