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Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady [Hardcover] Henry James. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1882.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. bit worn around edges a bit loose here and there green boards w/ gold design and brown ink

Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.

James. Henry. The Portrait Of A Lady. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1882.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo (20 X 12 cm). 520, 16 (publisher's catalog) pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles and designs to upper and spine. Hinges loose, corners rubbed, wear to edges. Wear to head/tail of spine with wrinkles to bottom half. 1882 on title page with period following date, 1881 on copyright page. PO signature (1882) to second free endpaper. BAL 10554.

Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.

James, Henry, Jr.. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, 1882.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: [2], 520pp. Text pages are 12mo., 7 3/8"; with boards Sm8vo., 7 5/8". Good plus book. First edition, second issue: Title page is dated "1882." - with period, copyright date is "1881" - no period. Brown cloth covered boards, elegant gilt-and brown-stamped lettering and decorations on front panel and spine. Boards and spine are soiled and scuffed overall. Edges at head and tail of board spine are chipped, split and fraying. Fore-edge corners are curled in and tips are rubbed through. External board edges are scuffed. External page edges are age- and soil-darkened, with some foxing and stains on the upper edge. Inside hinges, front and back are cracked but holding. Front paste down has a bookseller's label in upper left corner, along with small ink doodles. FFEP is scuffed, back free end-paper has irregular ink jots. Previous owner's name on second free end-paper. Text pages are age-toned. Narrow damp stain on the upper edges of FFEP - pp. 25, and again on pp. 506-back free endpaper. Stains, mostly in the margins of pp. 396-401 and 492-497. One or two occasional smudges, minimal foxing in the outermost margins. Text block is a bit shaken due to the hinge cracks. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.

Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.

Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1882.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. First American Edition, First Issue with the period present after "1882." Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth embossed in brown and gilt; [2],520pp. Binding recased with renewed endpapers, corners gently scuffed, spine gilt a shade dulled, faint soil to textblock extremities, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy of the author's masterpiece. BAL 10544; EDEL & LAURENCE A.16.b.

Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

JAMES, Henry, Jr.. The Portrait of a Lady.. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1882.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 520 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated brown cloth. First edition; first issue; first binding. BAL 10554. Several vertical creases to the title page; brown endsheets cracked at inner hinges (front, about 3" and rear, entire length); some dings and other light use to the cloth and several white spots to the rear board; still, tight and sound.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: In good condition. Boards are typically worn with light fading along edges, rounded corners, gilt work is rubbed. Extremes are rubbed, somewhat crushed. Light bubbling on rear board with light staining. Overall, lightly soiled cloth. Hinges cracked in front and rear. Light chipping to fly leaves. Free of bookplates. 236 pp - 520 pp affected with light dampness staining to top edge of gutter. Does not affect text. Text block lightly toned, free of marginalia. Binding somewhat cocked, but remains intact. Please see photos. First U.S. Edition, First Printing with the period printed after 1882 on title page with 1881 printed on the copyright page. An attractive copy with original brown end papers. This title is extremely difficult to find with all of the correct characteristics of both the first printing of the sheets.

Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.

JAMES Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. , 1882.

Price: US$852.83 + shipping

Description: Second edition, American issue. 8vo., original brown cloth, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company. The publishing variants of this, effectively the first American edition, are many and varied, and David Supino devotes a dozen pages to their description and analysis. To simplify their arguments, Edel & Laurence boil the key component of priority down to the presence or absence of a full stop after the copyright date, and Supino to whether the title page is a singleton. The present copy has both these elements: the evidence of the binding is confusing since all sources refer to diagonally grained cloth of various hues - this copy is fine grained cloth with no diagonal element - although the large areas of gilt to give that impression, though that seems t be an artefact of the blocking. A very good copy, with only very slight wear to the binding and spine just a little dulled.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1882.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing, first issue ("Copyright 1881." on copyright page, no ads, correct measurement of title page as per Ahearn Henry James APG). [ii], 520 pp. Publisher's dark brown cloth stamped in brown and gilt. A Near Fine copy with light wear to extremities, small scratch to back board, tiny closed tear to ffep, former owner's name on first blank in pencil, rear hinge starting. A nice copy of the classic novel.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the period printed after 1882. on the title page with 1881 printed on the copyright page. An attractive copy with the ORIGINAL brown endpapers. The binding is tight with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with a nice previous owner's inscription on the page after the endpaper dated 1883. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the year 1882 printed on the title page and a period after the year 1881 printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL brown cloth. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

THAXTER, CELIA. Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882.

Price: US$22000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 12mo. Original brown cloth blocked in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Tenth edition stated on title. Very fine condition. Thaxter has mounted a CDV portrait of herself in the front. Half morocco case. Presentation copy inscribed by the author and artist Celia Thaxter: “Mary Mapes Dodge with much love. Illustrated by Celia Thaxter 1882.” Dodge is best known as the author of Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates and as a founding editor of St. Nicholas Magazine. Thaxter provided a poem for the first issue of that children’s magazine and helped to promote it. A perfect gem of a book illustrated throughout with 33 fine watercolors by Thaxter. They include delicate flowers, spiders, butterflies, feathers, plants, seaweed, landscapes and seascapes, some in the margins and others superimposed upon the text. The colors are rich and fresh, and the pictures are exquisite and detailed. Thaxter was a beloved New England artist and poet whose work was first published in the Atlantic Monthly. Thaxter became one of the most popular poets of her day thanks to her frequent appearances in the Atlantic and the oft-reprinted collections of poems that followed. She knew many of prominent literary and artistic figures of the day including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Morris Hunt, and Childe Hassam. An accomplished poet, businesswoman, artist, and journalist, Thaxter continues to be read long after most of her contemporaries have been forgotten. This lovely volume, presented by Thaxter to Mary Mapes Dodge, embodies vital strands in the poetry and art of nineteenth-century American women.

Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.