Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
James, Henry. The awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: former owner name address in pencil on flyleaf, brown ribbed cloth with gilt lettering, italic S on spine in Harpers, edgewear with some fraying, cracked front hindge but not loose
Seller: Redbrick Books, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers 1899(99) New York, 1899.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Good plus or better, light general wear Cloth Top spine heavily frayed, bottom spine lightly frayed. Edges worn. Pages browned. Prev owner's bookplate inside front cover, stamp and name on front fly.
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 457p. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, Light corner wear, spine sunned, light foxing and minor spotting to first and last few pages, inscription on front free endpaper, slight separation at title page, mild age-toning. Second issue, 1 3/8 thickness.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY. The Awkward Age. New York: Harper & Bros., 1899, 1899.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo; 457 pp. Tape reparied tear to title page; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. BAL 10636
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1899.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Novel. Second issue American edition, 1 3/8" thick. Covers lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped, wear on the tips. Owner name on the first endpaper, otherwise the interior is clean and tight, pages toned, endpapers tanned.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1899), 457pp, navy ribbed cloth, slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, flight browning to eps, small stain to last numbered pg, no dj, contents clean & unmarked.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper, New York, 1899.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book block cocked; short crack in rear joint.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry;. THE AWKWARD AGE;. Harper & brothers publisher;, New York;, 1899.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: blue boards some wear; henry james in gilded gold on spine and cover, corners bumped, text unmarked, spine lightly faded DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: 1st; 456 pages;
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in original brown cloth stamped in gilt (minor slant to spine, light wear). BAL 10636. From the library of noted American poet William Matchett with his signature on front endppaer. Also includes an ink stamp from a Conscientious Object camp in WWII (he was a Quaker).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1899.
Price: US$30.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon cloth binding with gold stamping on both covers and spine. 457pp., 2 pages of ads at the back. Sheets bulk measures 1 5/16 inches. Upper and lower case "Harpers" on spine base with italic "s". Owner's signature on endpaper. Slight wear only. BAL 10636 Scans on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st american in Fine condition brown boards
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Awkward Age; A Novel. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 457, [2] pp. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering, no jacket, good copy. (95452g).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo BAL 10636. Original brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover and spine. Very good, no dust jacket, slightly askew, two inch separation at bottom of title page, couple of very short tears at foreedge of title page and contents page, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In remarkably good condition especially given its age Solid and clean.
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York NY, 1899.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1899 Harper & Borthers FIRST Edition in VG condition. With deep maroon boards and bright gilt lettering on the cover and rear boards though muted on the spine end. The ffep is missing so the first page is the title page. There is minor wear at the coonres and edges with toing to the endpages as well. The last 2 pages list the works of Walter Besant and Laurence Hutton.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age [Hardcover] James, Henry. Harper and Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1899 Harper & Brother hard cover - 1st edition - brown boards gold text front and back and spine - no dust jacket - label on spine and inside cover - minor staining to cover and page edge - tanning to page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - a fine rare collectible - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with front and back covers and spine stamped in gilt. Off-white end papers with slight discoloration to front end papers. Slight wear to extremities.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published in 1899 by Harper and Brothers. Bound in brown cloth lettered in gold. Bulking at one and five eight's inches, plain lettering to spine. A handsome copy. Near fine with just a trace of tip wear and offsetting to the endsheets.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. [2], 457 pages, [2] pages advertisements. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt titles on the both covers and the spine. Slight lean to the binding. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Thin cracks in the gutters opposite pages 210, 274. A good reading copy.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper, New York, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, brown ribbed cloth. N.Y.: Harper, 1899. First American Edition. Bookplate & ownership signature. Sheets bulk slightly under 1 3/8 inches indicating possible second printing.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. AWKWARD AGE. , 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: JAMES, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First American edition. 12mo., red-brown vertical-ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on front and back covers and spine. Spine shows some sun darkening and a little wear to the heal of the spine otherwise a very good copy. This book occurs on two weights of paper, this volume measures 1 5/8" thick making it the first issue. [Edel & Laurence A53.b, BAL doesn't agree.]. [a].
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. Harpers, 1899.
Price: US$75.40 + shipping
Description: THE AWKWARD AGE, Harpers, 1899, first edition, just some slight wear, but still a tight, bright, vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$76.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition, First Printing; one of 1,000 copies. Very Good; no DJ (as issued?). Cloth scuffed and edgeworn, top edge stain uneven, curled corners, bookplate front pastedown, else Fine and unmarked. 457pp.
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
James Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail and over £40 tracked and inside UK sent signed for. PayPal accepted. First edition. A novel. Original dark brown cloth. Gilt titling to front and spine. Wear to top and bottom of spine and edges and gilt slightly faded on spine. Inscription by Lady Gore Brown dated 1964 on front end paper. Overall a clean tight copy.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, corners bumped, looks like some ink dots on spine (barely visible), slight shelf wear, ow VG. No DW as issued
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition - 1899 on title p as well as verso. Brown cloth boards w/gilt; lightly edgeworn & soiled from handling; slight lean to spine; no DJ; rear hinge beginning to start, internally clean. Includes an article from the New York Times (6/15/1976) announcing the admission of James to the Abbey.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Henry James. Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown boards with bright gilt lettering on front, slightly faded lettering on spine. Back board is cracked. Book plate inside front cover.Binding is good, text is clean. Nice old copy.
Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, brown cloth, gilt titles, inked name on front free endpaper, cocked, light edgewear, one lower corner bumped. This story of a girl coming of age is the vehicle for James to comment on the decadence of the fin-de-siecle era in England: told largely in dialogue. [BAL 10636 - state uncertain, pages appear to bulk at 1 7/16 in. = closer to state A of 1 5/8 in.].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Second State. 457, [3]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Edel & Laurence A 53b Original light brown cloth, secondary issue, with paper bulk 1 3/8" and seriffed lettering on spine; slightly rubbed at edges, Very Good
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$129.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth with gold lettering on front and back, Very unusual for a book to have the title and author printed on both front and back covers. This is a first edition as described by Ahearns being 1 5/8" thick. Book is complete, clean, and tight. Presntation inscription from 1899 on front free-endpaper. 457 pages
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1899.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Ribbed brown cloth stamped in gilt lettering stamped on the front and rear boards and spine. 456pp., [1]pp., 2pp. of advertisements. Author Joseph Bushnell Ames' copy with his name penned in the year of publication and his decorative bookplate on the front endpapers, finger smudges on a few pages, spine title tarnished with spine cocked and ends worn, a very good copy with poet Daniel Hoffman's penciled initials on Ames' bookplate.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. Harper, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 457. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt with a couple of small stains on the upper corner of the cover, otherwise a nice bright copy. Binding state A. BAL 10636.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1899.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very bright gilding on spine and cover; slight rubbing to top, bottom and edges of spine but an attractive, clean copy with no owner's signature; brown ribbed cloth Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 456, (1), followed by 2pp. of publisher ads. Brown cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Slight dust soiling to top edge. A bright, tight copy. First American edition, printing A, primary issue with publisher's spine imprint in upper and lower case roman. Protected with a removable, clear archival sleeve. BAL 10636. EDEL & LAURENCE, A53b.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. A Novel. , 1899.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of only 1,000 copies (half as many as the English edition published a few weeks earlier). Nanda Brookenham's "awkward age" begins when her mother enters her into the marriage market and ends when she decides to be in charge of her own life. This copy is what Edel & Laurence calls the primary state, and is Supino's Impression A (but neither Supino nor Blanck attempt to assign precedence): the use of thicker paper (compared to "B") results in leaves bulking just under 1-1/2 inches, and the "s" of the publisher's spine imprint is non-italic. This is a bright copy, fine except for the slightest of rubbing at the corners; the volume is only a little askew, almost-unavoidable for a thick 557-page novel. Supino 53.6.0; Edel & Laurence A53b; Blanck 10636.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 457, (2) p. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front & rear covers. Now protected in a clear acetate jacket. Slight rubbing to extremities. Internally fresh and clean. Two pages of adverts at rear. BAL 10636. A Fine copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Excellent copy of the first printing, one of 1000 copies printed.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry.. The Awkward Age.. London: William Heinemann, 1899, 1899.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, published on 25 April 1899, a fortnight before the American edition. The Awkward Age was first serialized in Harper's Weekly between October 1898 and January 1899, with minor revisions to the text made for publication in book form. "The Awkward Age looks at two young women who are not quite ready to enter adult society but no longer young enough to be kept with the children. The novel develops its Blakean (Miltonic and Hawthornesque) theme of the importance of leaving Innocence, confronting the world of Experience bravely, and defining Evil clearly to oppose it and so achieve human maturity" (ANB). Edel & Laurence A53a; Supino A53.1.0. Quote from F. R. Leavis. Octavo. Original blue diagonal fine-ribbed cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, four irises blocked in blind on front cover, publisher's device in blind on rear cover, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco box. Complete with the unopened 32-page publisher's catalogue (second variant, without "the latest fiction" listed on final page). Light rubbing at extremities and minor soiling, endpapers toned: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom