James, Henry. THE IVORY TOWER. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, [i-ii], [i-viii], 1-357 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Head edge gilt. Boards show sunning to spine and covers, damp staining to both covers, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning, damp staining to pages, water damage to pages, and water damage to head edge gilt. Shelved Room A. 1372378. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Henry James.. The Ivory Tower.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1917.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition (1917), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted and same date at the title and copyright pages, in accordance with Charles Scribner's Sons' customary practice. Very Good: shows just a hint of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; faint dampstaining to the lower backstrip and lower inside corner of the front panel; the text pages have tanned lightly, due to aging with heavier discoloration to the front and rear free endpapers; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and several minor cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches). vi, 357 pages. Preface by Percy Lubbock. Includes 'Notes for the Ivory Tower' and the end of the book. Tan cloth over boards with gilt-stamped titles at the back strip. Hardback: Lacks DJ. First Edition (1917), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted and same date at the title and copyright pages, in accordance with Charles Scribner's Sons' customary practice.

Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.

JAMES, HENRY. IVORY TOWER. , 1917.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: JAMES, Henry. THE IVORY TOWER. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First American edition. 8vo., olive-brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., in the publisher's dust-jacket. The scarce dust-jacket is darkened at spine and has shallow nicks along top- and bottom-edges. Binding shows tiny bits of sporadic sunning along the top- and bottom-edges in the places where the dust-jacket is nicked, else fine overall. (Edel A77b).

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Ivory Tower. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($1.50 net on the spine), generally toned, rubbed and with some chips and tears at the top edge. Grey cloth on the boards with gilt lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, gilt top edge, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. The first US edition of James's novel about an outcry over selling great British works out of the country, issued simultaneously with the first English edition. One of James's two unfinished novels at the time of his death, here complete in the scarce jacket. This copy comes from the personal collection of Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Maurice Sendak.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.