Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some underlining. Previous owners name is written inside on front free end paper.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Question of Our Speech, The Lesson of Balzac. Houghton Mifflin MA, 1905.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter bound in linen over greyish boards with a paper spine label and uncut pages. One of 300 copies.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Question of Our Speech. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st. 5x7. 116 pages. Red cloth with title in gold on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. . 2 Lectures: The Question of our Speech and The Lesson of Balzac. Unmarked, tight and clean.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, limited to 300 uncut copies. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 115, (1) pp. White cloth and blue paper boards with paper title label on the spine. The white cloth spine has some soiling. Last two pages contain neat, light, penciled notes (of interest to a bibliophile).
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BAL 10660. Edel and Laurence A61a, binding (c). First printing, consisting of 2000 copies. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Moderate shelfwear. The spine and parts of the boards are a bit faded. There is a faint dampstain along their bottom edges. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Question of Our Speech; the Lesson of Balzac. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signatre of G. J. Anderson on title page.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. Question of Our Speech: The Lesson of Balzac, Two Lectures. Houghton Mifflin, 1905.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight binding, solid green boards with sharp corners, bright gilt lettering to front board and to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition, one of 300 copies.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Blue buckram with gilt-stamped title on front and spine. Spine sunned and cocked slightly, very good in an unusual unprinted dustwrapper with window cut out of spine to show title.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Bookplate and some ownership signatures, modest rubbing, else near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Question of Our Speech. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1905.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 116 pages. Blue boards with gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Very minor wear to extremities of spine and corners of boards. Printed on beautifully laid paper. Two tiny spots of stain on first lecture title page. A beautiful copy of two lectures, The Question of Our Speech and The Lesson of Balzac. Size: 12mo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt text on spine and front board. Gilt top edge. Hand-pressed paper. 116 pp. Minor edge wear. Fore edge roughly cut in some places. This is a first printing from a limited run of 2000 copies collecting two literary lectures by James. (Edel and Laurence A61a, binding C).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The QUESTION OF OUR SPEECH, THE LESSON OF BALZAC. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1905.
Price: US$52.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 116 pages, Limited 1/300 copies, gray boards with a paper label to the spine. Some light discoloration to the spine, previous owner bookplate, Near Very Good.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A clean, tight, unmarked copy in bright cover gilt.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Question of Our Speech. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. First Printing with 1905 in Roman numerals at bottom of title page. Book- near fine with rubbing to bottom edge of spine.
Seller: Whiting Lane Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Gilt cloth, t.e.g. First edition, ordinary issue (two thousand copies thus). Cloth a bit rubbed and marked, but a good copy in later slipcase. EDEL & LAURENCE A61a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. 116 pp. Greenish black cloth with gilt titling on cover and on spine. Top edge gilt. Printed at The Riverside Press, designed by Bruce Rogers. Slight wear to lower spine ends. Small chips to fore-edge. Bookplate of Wm G. Mather (1857-1951), a Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector, a friend of Bruce Rogers and a collector of Rogers work. BAL 10660.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. This is a Near Fine copy of an the First Edition, which is LIMITED to 300 copies. Olive-coloured paper boards with a linen spine with paper label. Clean text; 116 pages. Issued "uncut;" this copy with pages opened. Light bumps to the bottom corners, and the spine perhaps a bit darkened; else a Fine copy. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this publication of two notable speeches delivered by Henry James at Bryn Mawr College and the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia in 1905. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of Carl Van Vechten with his ownership signature to the front panel "Carl Van Vechten New York May 24 - 1919" and bookplate to the rear panel. Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer, a major patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. In near fine condition. A unique example with noted provenance. On his tour throughout the Unites States between 1904 and 1905, Henry James delivered a number of academic lectures at universities and private clubs, most notably A Question of Our Speech delivered on June 8th, 1905 at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and The Lesson of Balzac, delivered for the first time before the Contmporary Club of Philadelphia on January 12th 1905.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Question of Our Speech. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rare first edition! Absolutely beautiful condition for its age and rarity. Binding is solid, pages clean and unmarked. Truly rare hard to find gem! Amazing book.
Seller: Boston Book World, Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition, limited issue of 300 copies with "First Edition" printed on paper spine label and limitation notice to copyright page. Octavo. 116 pp. Latter 2/3 of pages unopened. Dark gray paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine and paper spine label. Published simultaneously with the trade edition. Light rubbing and toning along edges and faint traces of dampstaining along bottom edge. Light chipping to edges of spine paper label. Binding is sound. Many pages unopened and otherwise pages clean and unmarked. [Edel & Laurence A61.b].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$728.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 116. Paper over boards with cloth spine, paper label. Cover little worn at edges, one hinge tender, o/w VG. BAL 10660.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 300 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); greyish-green paper-covered boards and pale yellow cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; original dustjacket with yapped edges; [vi],[2],3-115,[3]pp. A fresh, Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket, gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled, with shallow losses to spine ends and corners, a deeper chip to upper rear panel, with several tiny tears and attendant creases. Contents are comprised of two long pieces: "The Question of Our Speech," an address to the graduating class of Bryn Mawr College on June 8, 1905 (it first appeared in the August, 1905 issue Appleton's Booklovers Magazine), and "The Lesson of Balzac," first published in the Atlantic Monthly (August, 1905). Edel & Laurence A61b; BAL 10660.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.