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Henry James. The Awkward Age. William Heinemann, 1899.

Price: US$7.43 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1899. No edition stated. 414 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Faint creases to some pages. Reinforced hinges. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is slightly sunned. Gilt is bright.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Awkward Age. William Heinemann, 1899.

Price: US$21.01 + shipping

Description: Hardcover; fading and edge wear to exterior; cloth tear at middle of spine; book plate inside front cover; fading to pages; corners bumped; otherwise in acceptable condition with clean text and tight binding.

Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.

Henry James. The Awkward Age. William Heinemann, 1899.

Price: US$42.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A William Heinemann first edition with the date of publication under the publisher's name on the full title page.The book is a bit bumped and scuffed and the spine has started to separate. First owner's name is written on f.f.e. Gilt lettering on spine and especially the front cover is still bright and clear. Boards are a beautiful teal with an embossed bouquet of tulips on the cover.

Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.

Henry James. The Awkward Age. William Heinemann, 1899.

Price: US$55.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boards have toning/faded with some marks and bumped corners. Pages are age toned with some spotting.

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Awkward Age. William Heinemann, London, 1899.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 414 pages. First English edition, second state with nine tulip buds embossed on the front cover instead of four irises. One of a number of "colonial copies" that were transferred back for domestic use. The story of a young girl's growing up and & taking control of her own life. Near fine book with a touch of rubbing to the corners & along the front spine fold. No dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

James, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE. , 1899.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: London: William Heinemann, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this novel, written almost entirely in dialogue, of Nanda Brookenham's "awkward age" of transition away from her mother's marriage-marketing and toward taking charge of her own life. This appears to have been a colonial copy that was transferred back for domestic use (according to E&L, 475 copies were so transferred): the book is in the second binding state (with nine tulip buds rather than four irises on the front cover), is printed on smooth wove paper, and has a title page that is printed all in black and is dated in Arabic numbers -- all aspects denoting colonial copies. The half-title, which would have identified this as a copy meant for the colonies, was excised by the publisher when it was re-designated for domestic use; most such copies do not have the final ad leaf either, but this one does. On the front cover, "THE AWKWARD AGE" measures 2-7/8" across (shorter than on all three copies cited by Supino); on the spine, "AWKWARD AGE" (all in one line) is in a much narrower font than the other four lines of print. This is a near-fine copy, slightly darkened on the spine and with very minor rubbing at the extremities. See Supino 53.3.0 + 53.4.0 + 53.5.0 (all variations of colonial sheets redirected to the domestic market, none of them quite the same as this); Edel & Laurence A53a.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

JAMES, Henry.. The Awkward Age.. London: William Heinemann, 1899, 1899.

Price: US$1949.32 + 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