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R.W. Church. Spenser : English Men of Letters Series. Macmillan and Co., 1879.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 19 x 13 cm. 181 pages of Victorian academic excellence from John Morley's English Men of Letters Series. Glance at the publisher's list and you find Prof Huxley on Hume, Henry James on Hawthorne, and Trollope on Thackeray and the list goes on! Whether you want to know more about Spenser or not this is a wonderful book to own.130 plus years of serious thinking.!!!!!
Seller: Artful Dodger Books, Geneva, Switzerland
Henry James. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters series). Macmillan, 1879.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1909 rebound edition ex libris copy on green cloth
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
James, Henry. HAWTHORNE English Men of Letters. Macmillan, GB, 1879.
Price: US$21.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth lettered and decorated in black. 4 pages of adverts at raer include five title in preparation "Dryden - Landor". Minor pencil annotation. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
James, Henry. Hawthorne. Macmillan, 1879.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original crimson cloth. First state of ads.Wear to spine, cloth a bit stained; small chip out of half-title page, otherwise near very good copy.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry.:. Hawthorne.. Macmillan and Co., 1879., 1879.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Red cloth, stamped in black. Spine darkened, covers a bit marked, but a very good copy. Edel & Laurence A12, binding (a), second state of the advertisements.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
JAMES, Henry.:. Hawthorne.. Macmillan and Co., 1879., 1879.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 183pp., red cloth, stamped in black. Covers a bit dust marked, but a nice copy in the 'a' binding and with the first state of the advertisements.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
JAMES Henry. Hawthorne. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp plus 4 page catalogue. English Men of Letters Edited by John Morley. Ochre coloured buckram boards with black titles to spine and black titles and colophon to front cover. Covers worn and bumped at extremities with small chips to top edge of rear panel and spinespine. Fep gutter cracked causing fragility to spine.Text block bright and tight. Aged but nice.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. From the English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley, 183pp, (4)pp ads listing Hawthorne as "in preparation", bound in beige cloth, paper spine label rubbed, minor light chipping of cloth to spine tips, covers mild foxing, internally clean and bright. A very good copy.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
JAMES Jr., Henry. Hawthorne. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Octavo, red cloth over flexible boards, stamped in black. Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Henry James Jr. Part of the Englishmen of letters series. Very good, spine darkened.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Hawthorne. Macmillan, London, 1879.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state of ads.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry Jr.. Hawthorne. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original red cloth over flexible boards. One of the earliest serious works of Hawthorne by an English man of letters. Very Good tight copy, top spine end cloth with shallow chip, spine somewhat darkened.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Henry James. Hawthorne. MacMillan, London, 1879.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. First Printing. Book- near fine in red flexible board. Erosion to edge and bottom of spine. Listed as "in preparation" on rear ads.
Seller: Whiting Lane Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Henry James. Hawthorne. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Henry James's literary study of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Edel & Laurence A12a. First edition, first state, with this work listed as 'in preparation' to the publisher's advertisements at the rear.James gives an extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels, and a selection of his short stories. An examination of Hawthorne's life, and of some of his nonfiction, is also provided.With four pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor discolouration to back strip. Hinges strained but firmly held. Significant closed tear at head of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, otherwise clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Four volumes of biographies in John Morley's 'English Men of Letters' series in uniform H. Wood signed bindings. A collection of four volumes from the 'English Men of Letters' series of biographies edited by John Morley. Comprising the following: 'Milton' by Mark Pattison; 'Hawthorne' by Henry James; 'Southey' by Edward Dowden; and 'Charles Lamb' by Alfred Ainger. Rebound in uniform half calf bindings over marbled boards, gilt to top edge signed by H. Wood. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to endpapers, otherwise pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom