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Henry James. The Finer Grain. Methuen and Co. Ltd, London, 1910.
Price: US$7.09 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Firmly bound, ex library copy with old Mudie's Library label on the top edge of the front board and paste down, no other library markings, old signature of former owner inside, foxing marks on some pages, no jacket, second edition.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Henry James. The Finer Grain. Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1910.
Price: US$8.03 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1910. Third Edition. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Black marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Henry James. THE FINER GRAIN. Methuen, London, 1910.
Price: US$20.15 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 3rd Edition. Original brown binding with spine decoration and titles. 307 pages. Publisher's list at back dated October 1910. A worn copy.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
James, Henry. The Finer Grain. Methuen & Co. LTD, London, 1910.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. viii, 308 pages, 31 page publisher catalog. Light brown cloth hardcover with gilt titles on the front cover and spine. Cloth is lightly rubbed on the spine and front joint. End papers are foxed. The text is lightly foxed and toned. A good reading copy.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Finer Grain. Methuen London 1910, 1910.
Price: US$32.40 + shipping
Description: 3rd edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo vii + 307pp., Third edition, December 1910. Light flecking to boards & neat ownership inscription o/w very good copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
James, Henry.. The Finer Grain.. Methuen and Company Ltd, London, 1910.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Edition stated on copyright page. 307pp with ads at end. A Very Good copy in light brown cloth stamped in gilt at spine with decorations. Mild abrasions to upper and right edges of front board. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Five stories. Q04952
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Finer Grain. Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound no dust jacket. 2nd printing. Foxing to pages throughout , & wear to boards, neat ink script to front fixed end page, but otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Finer Grain. Methuen London 1910, 1910.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 2nd edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo vii + 307pp., Second edition, that is second printing in same month as first. However this is Methuen's Colonial Library edition & is probably the first edition thus. Engraved bookplate on front paste-down & may lack front endpaper o/w lovely bright copy in red cloth with bright gilt titles at spine
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Henry James. The Finer Grain. Methuen, 1910.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 307pp, FIRST EDITION, lacks dust wrapper, no inscriptions. Some rubbing to boards, especially above title, some light soiling, decoration to spine still bright. Good condition internally, front hinge is slightly loose, no loose pages. Some light spotting to edge of text block. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
James, Henry. The Finer Grain. London; Methuen;, 1910.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good in light red cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine and front board. Signs of a small spillage to the rear board. Foxing to preliminaries and edges and a blank label to the fromnty pastedown.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
JAMES, Henry. The Finer Grain.. London: Methuen:, First edition,, 1910.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, vii, 306pp., 32pp. pubs catalogue dated September 1910, Presentation Copy stamp to foot of title page (probably from the publisher), slight spotting to endpapers, original cloth gilt a little rubbed and marked . A VG copy. (Edel & Laurence A68b). Collection of classic Henry James long stories, including The Velvet Glove, Mora Montravers, A Round of Visits, Crapy Cornelia, and The Bench of Desolation. Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Henry James. The Finer Grain. Methuen & Co, London, 1910.
Price: US$126.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition of this collection of five short stories from celebrated novelist Henry James. The first UK edition of this work, of which 1,500 copies were produced.With thirty-one page publisher's catalogue dated September 1910. No priority of advertisements has been established; James's personal copy has the September date, while an ARC is recorded with October advertisements. It is viewed as likely that copies with August, September and October catalogues were produced simultaneously. Edel & Laurence A68b.A delightful collection of five short stories by the author of such celebrated works as 'The Ambassadors' and 'The Turn of the Screw'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip lightly age toned. Small split in cloth over rear joint. Hinges strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned to perimeters, but clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
James, Henry. THE FINER GRAIN. Methuen, 1910.
Price: US$226.20 + shipping
Description: THE FINER GRAIN, Methuen, 1910, first edition, faint crease to the front cover, else a tight, bright vg+ copy in the publishers original cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering to the front cover and spine with much gold-gilt decoration to the spine as well. A collection of 5 tales. Publisher's presentation copy with their stamp to title page stating such.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.