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Henry James, Jr.. A passionate pilgrim & other tales. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1875.
Price: US$50.02 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition of Henry James' first book. 1875. 496 pages.Pages are tanned, some are almost loose. See photos for front and back conditions of binding. Pages without any marks. Maroon cloth boards with bumped corners and wear, but now protected by mylar cover.
Seller: books4salehawk, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1875.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The first edition of Henry James' first book, a collection of stories. Maroon cloth boards. Spine entirely covered with black fabric tape; extremities worn; ffep held on neatly with white cloth tape. Embossed library seal to title; library pocket inside rear cover. Sturdily, if not aesthetically, mended.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Henry James. A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition with "J.R. Osgood & Co." to spine. Octavo. 496 pages. Deep purple cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Brown endpapers. Boards have been rebacked at spine ends and rear joint. Wear with brief exposure to extremities; corners bumped; general scuffing. Discoloration to spine. Two gatherings sprung but overall binding holding soundly. Pages toned but unmarked. Overall a very good and serviceable copy. James' first short story collection and first published book. The title novella was originally published in two installments in the Atlantic Monthly. [Edel & Laurence A1].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
James, Henry. A PASSIONATE PILGRIM, AND OTHER TALES. James R. Osgood Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [1]-496 pages. In Good condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have chipping and fraying to spine edges, light rubbing to corners, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning, library bookplate on front pastedown, splitting to front interior hinge, splitting to several gutters throughout textblock, pages 175 to 194 partially detached, writing on rear endpaper, and remainder of bookplate on rear endpaper. Ex-library. Later issue binding with "Houghton, Mifflin & Co." imprint on spine. Shelved Room A. BAL 10529. 1372663. Special Collections. First Edition, First Printing, Later Issue Binding.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
James, Henry Jr.. TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES. , 1875.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. One preliminary page undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's second book, which consisted of either 1500 (per E&L) or 1578 (per Blanck) copies. Published in the same year as his first (A PASSIONATE PILGRIM), this is a collection of travel sketches from his journeys around Europe in 1872-1874. This copy is in the first binding state, with "J.R. Osgood & Co." at the foot of the spine (later copies read "Houghton, Osgood & Co." and then "Houghton, Mifflin & Co."). The cloth color is green; other copies were in purple or terra-cotta, without priority. It is a near-fine copy (minor rubbing at the corners, rear endpaper cracking but tight). Supino 2.2.0; Edel & Laurence A2a; Blanck 10530.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
James, Henry, Jr.. The Passionate Pilgrim. James R. Osgood and Co, 1875.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue, of the author's first book. A very good copy in the original plum cloth stamped in gilt (spine faded, light wear to cloth, text block a trifle shaken; some light marginal dampstaining; front free endpaper rumpled). Bookplate of noted American poet William Matchett. First issue binding with the Osgood imprint.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Henry James. A Passionate Pilgrim. James Osgood, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Passionate Pilgrim and other Tales. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 1875 1st ed 1st issue in the primary and preferred Terra Cotta cloth 8vo. The entire first edition consisted of just 1,510 copies, not all of whichwere put into binding at the time of publication.BAL 10529. Edel & Laurence A1. Note a superb repair by Alan Grace Binder of Surrey UK and the original spine laid down complete, can barely notice this repair else very good plus, text is excellent. His First book. and a rare in this condition.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Transatlantic Sketches. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, (presumed) later state of the binding. 401 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First binding state with "James R. Osgood and Company" on spine. Published the same year as A Passionate Pilgrim, copies of this first impression (1500 copies per Edel and Laurence, or 1578 per Blanck) were bound up later with the "Houghton, Mifflin" spine imprint; Edel doesn't even mention this variant, with "Houghton, Osgood, & Co." at the foot of the spine. Blanck, however, poses the question: "Query: Also bound with the Houghton, Osgood & Company spine imprint?" This copy fairly answers that question. The cloth color is a rust, or terra-cotta; other copies were bound in purple or green, without priority. BAL 10530; Edel A2 Original rust-brown, terra-cotta cloth with blind stamped borders to covers and gilt titles on spine, some minor rubbing at edges, slight dampstaining to front and light dust soiling, foxing on endpapers and light dampstaining on bottom pastedown, else a very good copy of the author's scarce second book First Edition, (presumed) later state of the binding.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY. A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. Boston James R. Osgood and Company 1875, 1875.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the AuthorÕs First Book. Original gilt-stamped green cloth skillfully rebacked with the original cloth laid down. Very good.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
James Henry. TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES. Boston James R. Osgood and Company 1875, 1875.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, and in the first binding state. 8vo, publisher's original cloth textured green cloth, the boards framed in blind, the spine gilt ruled and lettered. A very bright copy, fine but for a little light wear along the tips and lower board edges and an extremely faint and nearly imperceptible remnant of an old label on the lower portion of the spine, the text is solid and very clean and fresh. HARD TO FIND IN SUCH NICE CONDITION, AND ONLY THE AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK. It was published the same year as his first, "The Passionate Pilgrim" and only about 1500 or so copies were printed. Much of the first edition print run was bound up later, but this copy is in the first state with "J.R. Osgood & Co printed on the spine. In this work James provides a number of stories and sketches based upon his 14 months spent traveling in Europe between 1872 and 1874. Many of them are from time spent in Italy, but England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Belgium are also included.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry Jr.. A PASSIONATE PILGRIM, and Other Tales. , 1875.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's first book, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. This is a collection of six tales that had appeared in American periodicals (mostly the Atlantic Monthly) over the preceding years. In 1873 James's father wrote him to say that he had had discussions with Osgood about publication of some of the son's tales, but Henry Jr. replied (to his mother, not his father), "I value none of my early tales enough to bring them forth again, and if I did, should absolutely need to give them an amount of verbal retouching.". He added that he wished to issue instead a volume "of tales on the theme of American adventurers in Europe, leading off with the Passionate Pilgrim." [E&L] There was no equivalent English edition, though half of these tales would appear in the 1879 two-volume London collection titled THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE. This copy is in the first of the four American binding states, with "J.R. Osgood & Co" at the foot of the spine. It is estimated that about 1,100 of the 1,500 copies were either bound in this primary binding, or were sent to England where their title pages received a Trübner ink-stamp. The other 400 were not bound up until 1878 or later, either in the second binding (with Houghton Osgood at the foot of the spine), or in the third binding (with Houghton Mifflin), or in the fourth (Houghton Mifflin but in the decorative binding introduced in 1881 for THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY). This copy is in terra-cotta cloth, one of three colors used without precedence, and is in very good-plus condition, with minor wear at the spine ends but otherwise clean and unworn. Supino 1.3.0; Edel & Laurence A1a.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry.. A Passionate Pilgrim and other Tales.. Boston J.R. Osgood & Co, 1875.
Price: US$1149.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, first state binding (the gilt stamp to the foot of the spine bearing publisher's name 'J.R.Osgood & Co' without a full stop); 8vo; some marginal toning, contents separating a little; publisher's terracotta cloth, spine darkened, rubbed at corners and along joints, a few marks and scuffs, a little frayed and nicked at spine ends; [2 (blank), 7], 496 pp. A very good first edition example of the first book by Henry James. One of approximately 1500 copies with the correct imprint 'J.R.Osgood & Co' on spine. There was no separate English edition. Edel & Laurence A1; BAL 10529
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
JAMES, Henry. A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1875.
Price: US$1440.00 + shipping
Description: Book shows a bit of scuffing to extremes. Front and rear hinge have been professionally repaired (early) at the fly leafs. This is the first binding with "James R. Osgood" imprint on the base of the spine. Bound in the purple stamped in gold. One of 1510 copies in the first edition. Housed in a custom made black cloth clamshell box with the title, particulars in gilt on the spine of the box. Ref.: BAL 10529.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, first binding state, with the imprint "Osgood & Co" (without a full stop after the last "o") at the foot of the spine. According to Edel & Laurence, the first printing consisted of 1,500 copies. Edel & Laurence A1; Supino A1.2.0. Octavo. Original red fine-cross-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind rules to bevelled boards, brown coated endpapers. Bookseller's ticket to foot of front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, slight rubbing to extremities, very light soiling to boards, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
JAMES, Henry. Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. , 1875.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: JAMES, Henry. Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. Orig. green cloth. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., Late Ticknor & Fields, Osgood & Co., 1875. First edition, first binding. The author's first book. BAL 10529. A very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Henry James. A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$2625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue of Henry James first published book and first collection of stories. Containing: "A Passionate Pilgrim," "The Last of the Valerii," "Eugene Pickering," "The Madonna of the Future," "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes," and "Madame de Mauves." With J R Osgood & Co in gilt on the spine and without a full stop after the final 'o'; one of 1500 copies printed, of which only 1100 were originally bound with this spine (the remaining being bound with an updated publisher on spine in 1878). No markings or indications that this was from a lot transferred to England for sale - this is a true first North American edition. Bound in Green cloth over boards with sloped edges (designed) and debossed frames on the front and back. Gilded lettering to spine and gilded rules at head and tail of spine. Rubbing to covers, some frayed corners, fraying at head and tails of spine. Overall used, but very good. Beginning of crack along pastdown/ffep fold. Brown endpapers. The interior is lightly and evenly toned. Small pencil note on rear blank. Provenance: Bookplate of Barton Currie inside front cover. Barton Currie was a mid 20th century journalist, author, and book collector. Additionally, from the private library of Maurice Sendak with laid in paper documenting its sale. Maurice Sendak was a celebrated children's author and illustrator known for multiple works including, "Where the Wild Things Are." Pages:496 Dimensions:7â x 5¼ x 1â .
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
James, Henry.. A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales.. J.R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, First State. BAL 10529. About Fine in reddish-brown cloth over bevelled boards, stamped in gilt at spine, blind rules to covers, rich dark brown facing endpapers. First State with publisher's name at heel of spine. Ownership signature and date in the year of publication to free front endpaper, difficult to decipher. 496pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. No foxing, no fraying. Some uneven darkening to front board. James's first book. Scarce in this condition. Q19366
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.