James, Henry. The Sacred Fount. Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1901.

Price: US$30.34 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green cloth on boards, gilt titles, light dusting of soiling and rubbing. Spine: light bumping to head & foot .Light bumping to boards four corners. Edges: mild foxings and age soiling. Eps: moderate old foxings. Clean contents. Binding is VG. 316p

Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand

James, Henry. The sacred fount. Methuen & Co, London, 1901.

Price: US$43.76 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 316 pag - publishers catalogue at rear - missing the first free end paper !!!!! Size: 2f4

Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands

JAMES, Henry. SACRED FOUNT. , 1901.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: JAMES, Henry. THE SACRED FOUNT. London: Methuen & Co., 1901. Later printing (catalogue dated August 1911). 8vo., lacquered crimson cloth with all-over flower and leaf ornaments in blind on front cover and spine; lettered in gilt. Spine has been sunned and dulled with three closed tears to crown; heel is moderately worn. Boards somewhat soiled with lightly bumped cornors. Internally, there is a stamp on ffep and bookplate on fpep. Bottom edge uncut with catalogue partially unopened. About very good. [Edel & Laurence A55.b].

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

James, (Henry). The Sacred Fount. Methuen & Co., London, 1901.

Price: US$61.45 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Blind embossed red cloth. Spine discoloured and worn, back joint split and back board discoloured, but boards attached and reasonably firm. Moderately foxed throughout. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Fiction; 1920s; For further info on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom

JAMES, Henry. The Sacred Fount. London: Methuen & Co., 1901.

Price: US$128.03 + shipping

Description: First British edition. 8vo. (iv), 316, 47, (1) pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, the latter with elaborate blindstamped decoration, the bookplate of a Mary Landon Baker featuring an illustration of a Venetian palazzo to the front pastedown. Mild fading to the spine and slight bumping to the ends and the corners, very good overall. Mary Landon Baker (1901-61) was an American socialite who cut quite a dash through US and, later, European high societies. She was described as "Chicago's best gift to Europe" and purportedly received 65 marriage proposals. Baker famously jilted one lover three times, to the point where "Mary Bakered" became a common colloquial phrase to describe someone who had not turned up for an important event. Edel and Laurence, A55b. Scarcer than the first US edition published by Scribner's nine days earlier. This is the first issue with the catalogue at the rear dated "November 1900". The work sold poorly, but was reissued twice ten years later off the back of his more successful work "The Outcry". The publishers used the remaining sheets from the original printing, with the catalogue at the rear dated either March or August 1911.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

James, Henry. THE SACRED FOUNT. Methuen & Co, London, United Kingdom, 1901.

Price: US$153.15 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. 8vo. (iv), 316, 47, (1) pp. Original crimson cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. Rubbing and light fading to the spine, some light loss to the top and base of the spine, bumping to the ends and the corners, some spotting to the pages, a very good overall example of the true first UK edition, with the catalogue at the rear dated "November 1900".

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

Henry James. The Sacred Fount. Methuen & Co, London, 1901.

Price: US$230.45 + shipping

Description: A later reissue of the first edition of Henry James' strange but wonderful novel, 'The Sacred Fount', in which the narrator tries to figure out the love lives of his fellow guests at a party. With a half-title. With thirty-one pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated March 1911. This novel sold badly when it was first published in 1901, and was the poorest selling of all of Henry James' books by Methuen. In 1911, the publishers were encouraged by the success of 'The Outcry', and so bound remaining sheets of the first edition and reissued them. This explains the inclusion of publisher's adverts dated 1911. In 'The Sacred Fount' an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the loves lives of a variety of guests he is with at a weekend party somewhere in the English countryside. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little fading to the spine, and minor fading to the front board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

JAMES, Henry.. The Sacred Fount.. Methuen & Co., London, 1901.

Price: US$298.12 + shipping

Description: First edition, first issue with ads dated "November 1900." 8vo., orig. red cloth (4), 316, with 46 pp. ads dated "November 1900." There is a crease which runs down the middle of the entire length of the upper board o/w very good. Edel & Laurence A55b.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada