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JAMES, Henry. THE PRIVATE LIFE. , 1893.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: JAMES, Henry. THE PRIVATE LIFE; Lord Beaupre; The Visits. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. First American edition. 232pp. + 4pp. adv. 16mo., green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper board and spine, silver grillework design to upper board and spine; top edge trimmed and ochre-stained, other edges untrimmed. This is a clean copy; ink signature and stamp to ffep. The cloth has darkened and the printing dulled to the spine, which also has a slight lean. (Edel A39.b; BAL 10604).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$37.18 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 12mo in green cloth w/silver and gold dec. gold titles, rough-cut page edges. Near Fine/No DJ (as issued?). Mild slant, else Fine and unmarked. 232pp + ads [4].
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Private Life; Lord Beaupre; The Visits. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893.
Price: US$37.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Brothers Publishers,1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Red cloth boads with black decoration. Cover has very slight shelfwear, slightly faded with a few white spots on front. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Flyleaf has small tear near spine. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Not price-clipped. Not ex-library. Very nice copy.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, variant binding. Green cloth stamped in red and blind. Neat ownership name on front fly, hinges repaired, faint spot on front board, binding a little cocked, an about very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. Green cloth, stamped gold and silver decorations. Covers have mild shelf wear. Bottom left corner of front cover has a small stain. Spine is cracked and table of contents page is detached, but all other pages are secure. Front end papers have ink annotations and bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Private Life and Other Stories. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small Octavo. Decorative cloth binding, lace design on cover and spine. Contains "The Private Life", "Lord Beaupr", and "The Visits". Very good, minor shelf wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Original olive green cloth with black decoration to spine and front cover. Three shorter works by American-born British writer. Very good, with minor shelf wear; one page of advertisements coming loose at rear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Variant binding of green cloth stamped in red with blindstamped decorations. Very good, no dust jacket, cloth faded at spine and outter edges of covers, spine ends very slightly bumped, front hinge starting, bookplate at front pastedown, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Private Life, Lord Beaupré, The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Description: 232p. BAL 10604 (variant binding: T cloth stamped in red & blind)) Very good condition, owner name on endpaper, dark spot on t.p. from scrap paper laid in
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Private Life: Lord Beaupre: [and] The Visits. Harper & Brothers, 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy in cloth (slight fading and rubbing to cloth). Small 8vo [4]+232+[4] BAL #10604; unrecorded variant binding (probably a remainder binding; light olive-green cloth, spine and upper cover stamped red and blind, plain endpapers and top edge).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. 232pp., [4pp.] Green cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Owner's name stamped on title and pastedowns and bookplate on front pastedown, small date stamp on contents page, title page loose and laid in, very good with spine slightly cocked, without dustwrapper as issued.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Green cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Front endpaper detached and with edge chipping, else a tight very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Private Life/ Lord Beaupre'/ The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First Printing. Book- very good. Binding tight and blue-green boards, stamped silver and gold, bright. Old library sticker (late 19th ?) on rear paste down and remnants of one on front paste down. Normal wear to binding.
Seller: Whiting Lane Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. THE PRIVATE LIFE/ LORD BEAUPRE/ THE VISITS. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1893.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good (covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight with very minor foxing title page, small ink name of "Charles H. Foster" stamped on the front & rear pastedowns). 12mo., dark-green cloth, stamped in gold & silver; 232 pages plus advertisements First American Edition. [Edel & Laurence A39b; BAL 10604, Binding B.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Private Life / Lord Beaupré / The Visits. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition (BAL binding B). 1 vols. 8vo. Very pretty copy of Blanck's binding B (sequence not established). BAL 10604; Edel A 39b Original gray-blue cloth, stamped in gold and silver. Spine faintly dulled, else Fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 232 pages + 4 pages of publisher ads. First American edition of this collection of 3 novellas written by Henry James (1843-1916) at the height of his popularity. BAL binding variant "C" (no priority established): blue cloth with spine and front cover stamped in gold and silver; no stain on top edge; endpapers are white laid paper. Association copy: on the front free endpaper is the signature of the noted Henry James scholar, Elsa M. Nettles. In her 30 years on the faculty of the College of William and Mary, Nettels was honored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Faculty Award for the Advancement of Scholarship and College's most prestigious award, The Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching. The book is in very good+ condition: clean, bright, and tight, with just a hint of edgewear and just a hint of toning of pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [7], 4-232, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements). Teal cloth with gold lettering and silver decorations on the front board and spine. Binding C according to BAL. BAL 10604. The first American edition, published after the British edition. A Near Fine book with a contemporary name on the free front endpaper.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
James, Henry.. The Private Life; Lord Beaupre,the Visits.. New York, Harper, 1893., 1893.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Unrecorded variant binding stamped in red. Fine condition. Embossed decorations on spine and covers.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Henry James. Picture and Text. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1893.
Price: US$262.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Containing essays on the art of illustration, especially regarding those used in Harpers publishing. Of note are essays on John Singer Sargent and Honoré Daumier. Including seven illustrations in the text plus a frontispiece portrait of Henry James under attached thin paper with a facsimile signature. Bound in green over boards with heavily guilded designs and lettering on front and spine. Very minor rubs to one corner and at tail of spine - these are pin point small, but otherwise near new in appearance. Lower edge rought cut. The interior is clean, clear, and crisp. A Fine book in nearly 'as new' condition. 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:(10) 175 Dimensions:6 x 3¾ x ¾.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
James, Henry. THE PRIVATE LIFE | Lord Beaupré | The Visits. , 1893.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: [the John Quinn copy] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition, primary binding state (with the elaborate silver grille-work on front cover and spine, and with the leaves' top edge stained ochre). This primary binding also appears, less commonly, in olive cloth; there is also a total of seven secondary, less ornate, bindings. THE WHEEL OF TIME. was soon issued as the companion volume to this one, containing the other three stories that had appeared in the six-story English edition of THE PRIVATE LIFE. This is a close-to-fine copy (spine cloth slightly darkened). Supino 39.2.0; Edel & Laurence A39b. Provenance: bookplate of John Quinn (1870-1924) -- the Ohio-born lawyer who was not simply a major collector of 1890-1924 literature, he was an important patron of literary figures. He bought up most of Joseph Conrad's manuscripts to provide the author with much-needed cash, he gave advice and financial assistance to Ezra Pound and to T.S. Eliot (in gratitude, Eliot sent Quinn the original manuscript of THE WASTE LAND), he helped W.B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre, he fought censorship battles over ULYSSES for James Joyce.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.