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James, Henry.. Portraits of Places.. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1884 (Copyright: 1883)., 1884.
Price: US$30.77 + shipping
Description: 8°. 3 Bll., 376 SS. OLn. mit goldgepr. Rtitel (etw. angestaubt und fleckig, Kapitale, Kanten und Ecken mit Läsuren, insgesamt recht hässlich). Erste amerikanische Ausgabe. Die EA erschien in London, bei Macmillan, 1883.- Papier leicht gebräunt. Ohne vord. Vorsatzblatt. Literatur
Seller: Antiquariat MEINDL & SULZMANN OG, Wien - Vienna, Austria
James, Henry. Portraits of Places. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing, (1884 on title page, 1883 on verso). Bound in brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt titles on spine. Ex-seminary library, with contemporary library plates and stamps, remnants of paper lave on tail of spine. No card pocket. Front hinge split at interior gutter, edgewear to covers. First Editions; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Portraits of Places. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: James R. Osgood, Boston, 1884. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. (1884 on title page, 1883 on verso). Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine. City of Gardiner, Maine Public library, with library plates and stamps, remnants catalogue markings on tail of spine. withdrawn Edgewear at tail and headcap, corners slightly bumped, minor shelf cock. Text block sqaure, flows well, occasional starting between signatures; 8vo; 376 pages
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine New York: Century Co., 1884. First edition. New York: The Century Co, 1884. Good. Decorated pictorial tan wraps, 7x10 inches, good, light wear and soil. Articles, stories, poems and letters; Vol XXVIII, May 1884, No. 1. 160 pages pls advertisements. Includes Henry James s Lady Barberina, Part 1 of 3; Frank Stockton s On The Training of Parents; Christina Rossetti and others. Frontispiece, Portrait of Chief Joseph, the Nez-Perce, Engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph. The Salem of Hawthorne by Julian Hawthorne with 13 illustrations drawn by Henry Fenn, including the view form Hawthorne s office in the Custom s House, the Town Pump, Derby Wharf and Salem Harbor. (Rear cover loose) Vol XXVIII, June 1884, No. 2 James s Lady Barberina, Part 2 of 3, American Wild Animals in Art, Julian Hawthorne, What is a Liberal Education?, President Charles W. Eliot Vol XXVIII, August 1884, No. 4, A New England Winter I, Henry James; The Remarkable Wreck of the Thomas Hyke, Frank R. Stockton, Two Notable Novels (reviewed), W.D.Howells; On the Track of Ulysses, W.J. Stillman Vol XXVIII, September 1884, No. 5, A New England Winter II (conclusion), Henry James. Astronomy (sunspots); Legends of the Passamaquoddy, Charles G. Leland; On the Track of Ulysses, Part II, W.J. Stillman
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Portraits of Places. James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1884.
Price: US$72.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very clean unworn volume. Single flaw is wear on spine ends. Gilt titling on spine. Binding very tight.
Seller: Blue Heron Books, Claremont, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. PORTRAITS OF PLACES. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good (covers bright with minor edgewear; neat repairs to front & rear hinges; contents clean & tight with ink name on front endpaper). 8vo., embossed brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt; 376 pages First Edition. [BAL 10563]. Only 1,500 copies were printed. [Edel & Laurence A21b]. Published one month after the 1883 English edition.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Portrait of Places. James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In good condition. Light wear to extremities. Rounded and rubbed extremes with light soiling overall to surface of cloth. Corners lightly rubbed with board exposed. Light staining to front board. Free of ownership. Interior very good with minimal toning. Free of markings. Binding tight and intact. A very sound copy! Please see photos. First American Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies printed from the plates of Macmillans London edition, issued a month earlier. Portraits of Places is a record of the author's reminiscences of his travels in Italy, France, and England during 18761882. Beginning in Venice, James takes the reader on a journey through Italy to France (Paris, Rheims, Normandy and the Pyrenees) and England (London, Warwickshire).
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry.. Portraits of Places.. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$224.37 + shipping
Description: First edition, American issue. 8vo., orig. maroon cloth, (8), (1)-376pp. Spine slightly faded with some wear to the top but certainly very good. Edel & Laurence A21b, binding e; Supino 21.9.O; BAL 10563
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
James, Henry. PORTRAITS OF PLACES. , 1884.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original chocolate brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies printed from the plates of Macmillan's London edition, issued a month earlier. The "places" portrayed are on the Continent, in England and in North America. This copy is in chocolate brown cloth (one of five colors used, without priority), with the JRO monogram at the foot of the spine. This is a near-fine copy, mildly rubbed at the spine ends. Supino 21.5.0; Edel & Laurence A21b.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.