Henry James. The Better Sort. Methuen & Co, 1903.

Price: US$30.92 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1903. No Edition Remarks. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to other pages. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Front hinge cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Water staining to some pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is dulled. Small splits to joints. Some fraying to cloth at spine ends. White staining to front board.

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

James, Henry. The Better Sort. Methuen & Co .Ltd, London, 1903.

Price: US$38.65 + shipping

Description: 1st. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4" Approx. 312pages,Dark binding quarter leather in fair condition, .Contents; bookplate of Plymouth public library, endpapers removed, otherwise contents generally good and clear, no publishers list rear. A good reading copy of 1st UK edition / Colonial Library.

Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Better Sort. Methuen, London, 1903, ,, 1903.

Price: US$51.53 + shipping

Description: hardback, 8vo, 312pp, 40pp adverts dtaed Feb 1903, edges browned, some light foxing, text clean and sound, red cloth gilt, rubbed, corners bumped, some soiling on covers, Good condition / no dustwrapper

Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Better Sort. London; Methuen;, 1903.

Price: US$64.41 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Very good in red cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine and front board. Some dents to the boards. Dulled spine. Foxing to preliminaries and edges.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

James, Henry (1843-1916). The better sort / by Henry James. London : Methuen & Co., 1903.

Price: US$66.29 + shipping

Description: Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and worn as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, 312 pages + 40 pages publisher's catalogue ; 20 cm. Series; Methuen's Colonial library. Notes; First edition, referenced by Leon Edel and Dan H. Laurence A57a. Contents; Broken wings. -- The Beldonald Holbein. -- The two faces. -- The tone of time. -- The special type. -- Mrs. Meldwin. -- Flickerbridge. -- The story in it. -- The beast in the jungle. -- The birthplace. -- The papers. Subjects; 1800-1899. Short stories, American. American literature 19th century. Nouvelles américaines. Littérature américaine 19e siècle. American literature. Short stories. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

James, Henry. The Better Sort. Methuen & Co., London, 1903.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Grey cloth slightly soiled, with wear along head of spine. "Methuen's Colonial Library" at base of spine.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Henry James. The Ambassadors. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1903.

Price: US$1050.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First American edition with "Published November 1903" on copyright. No jacket. Dark blue cloth over boards with gilded letters and lines on the spine. Gilded top edge and deckled long and lower edges. Front lower right corner just bumped, others fine. Some light scuffing to corners and at head/tail of spine. Shallow closed tear on title page, otherwise the interior is fine with a very strong spine. Considered by Henry James to be his best work, The Ambassadors has a complex publishing history. First sereialized in the North American Review (Jan-Dec 1903), James had inteded it to be simultaneously bound in London (Methuen) and New York (Harpers). However, with limited copies and an incomplete copy from the NAR, the London edition completed early, but mis-ordered certain chapters. This was corrected in the New York edition, which was heavily reviewed by James. However, it was later argued that the Metheun edition had the better order of storytelling and subsequent editions in the later 20th century again changed the order of some chapters. Here is the edition, as originaly intended and reviewed by Henry James. 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:(2) 432 Dimensions:8½ x 5¾ x 1½ .

Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.