Henry James Jr.. The sense of the past / by Henry James. W. Collins Sons & Co., 1917.

Price: US$17.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Sense of the Past. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1917.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First UK Edition. Blue cloth covers with gilded titles. Book has a cocked spine, shelfwear, bumped corners, edgewear, soiling to covers and edges of text block, toning to pages, a touch of sunning to spine, a former owner's name on the front endpaper, a split at page 1, a split at page 96, a crack that's started at page 272, and a tight split at page 376. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

James, Henry. THE SENSE OF THE PAST. W. Collins & Son, London, United Kingdom, 1917.

Price: US$71.82 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. 8vo. Pp viii, 351. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and front upper board. Light bumping to bottom front corner, wonderful bookplate to the front end page, clean pages. Nice copy.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

JAMES, Henry. The Sense of the Past. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1917.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles. (362)pp. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., Portrait photograph by A. L. Coburn. Edited by Percy Lubbock. Edel & Laurence A178a; BAL 10695. Two small water spots on front cover, several short tears to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Former owner's name and 1917 date on front endpaper. octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles

Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, U.S.A.

James, Henry. The Sense of the Past. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$91.98 + shipping

Description: 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). vi, 351pp. Frontispiece portrait of James. An unfinished novel by Henry James that was published in 1917, a year after his death. The novel is at once an eerie account of time travel and a comedy of manners. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and bumped. Slight spine fade. Spotting to page ends and light browning to prelims. Fore and lower edge untrimmed

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Sense of the Past. London: W Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1917, London, 1917.

Price: US$96.62 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Unfinished novel of Henry James, one of two published posthumously together with the preliminary notes for the work included here.With a preface by Percy Lubbock. Dark blue cloth with author and title in gilt on the front and spine, frontispiece portrait of James from a photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn with tissue guard, 351 pages, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, owners name and date in ink on the front free endpaper, also some notes in French on the final blank page. Corners bumped inwards, some wear to one corner and cloth at the top of the spine. Internally clean and in good order, gilt bright and clear, a good copy.

Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom

Henry James. The Sense of the Past. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$161.03 + shipping

Description: A second impression of James' unfinished, posthumously-published novel. With a frontis bearing a photograph of the author, with tissue guard. Includes over sixty pages of notes. Bears G. E. B. Roberts' signature on the front free endpaper. With a preface by Percy Lubbock. Percy Lubbock, CBE (1879-1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer. He was a good friend of Henry James in James' later life, and became a follower in literary terms, and his editor after his death. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor wear to the extremities. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light discolouration to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd scattered spot and handling mark. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

James, Henry. The Sense of the Past. W. Collins Sons & Co (1917), London, 1917.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 351p octavo. Wearing along the delicate boards in a dust jacket. The uncommon jacket is chipped along the top and back panel,and sepoarated at the flaps,

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

HALE, Edward Everett (1822-1909). Edward Everett Hale collection. , 1917.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Description: Edward Everett Hale American author, historian, editor, social reformer, and Unitarian minister. He was a long term member of the American Antiquarian Society. He is best remembered for his short story "The Man Without a Country."Collection includes 36 items dating from 1864 to 1917, specifically, 17 ALS, 2 partial ALS, 1 TLS, 1 ledger account book, 4 books with 1 ALS in one book, 3 photos and 7 Ephemera. 17 ALS and 2 partial ALS;6 ALS signed, "Edw. E. Hale", "Edward E. Hale" and "E. E. Hale", various places and dates, to his children's teacher, Miss Weston: - "Wednesday 8th.send the boys home at once", " - "Nov. 1, 1872.Much learning has made Edward's geography bad.", - "May 21, 1875.Can you let Bertie come home.at 12:30.", "- "Oct. 28, 1874. The children are not detained by their own fault. Please excuse them." (in pencil), - "June 25, 1877.".No boys are demonstrative. And, very likely, they have not told you how much they like you and the sense of pride and satisfaction they have in being presented to the Latin School by you."- "May 21, 1878.Please excuse Robin.the time has gone in search for two books which have disappeared." • ALS to Mr. Smith, 10 December 1880, expressing his concern that Mr. Stewart was to make his pulpit. • ALS to Mrs. Hale, 28 September 1883, re his busy schedule in Cambridge, Exeter, and Harford and must therefore postpone meeting with her. • ALS to Mr. Saray, 25 March 1885, re News Boys Club at his church. • ALS to Miss Morris (Helen Harrison Morris, wife of Arthur Twining Hadley, later President of Yale University), 16 November 1886, re writing to Miss Collins and printing of leaflets. • ALS to his sister [Sarah, Lucretia, or Susan], 19 June 1890, re "Lady Emily and I have been seeing our country", reference to Uncle Sam and his appointment by the Secretary of War, "one of the President's quota of visitor, family matters, etc. • ALS to Miss Connor (on letterhead of Lend a Hand Monthly), 5 March 1891, "I am glad to do what you wish." • ALS to Mr. Roberts, 6 May 1895, enclosing a note (not present) from the wife of a "leading professor in the Union College at Schenectady". • ALS to Arthur Twining Hadley, President of Yale, 9 November 1903, with envelope, that he has had "an unexpected call to Boston" and cannot visit the Hadleys (small hole at the center of the letter not affecting the text). • ALS to Mr. Butler [Justice Pierce Butler], 12 December 1905, re "decision of your court last spring with regard to the bakers in the state of New York." • ALS from William Hepworth Thompson (English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) addressed "My dear Dean" (probably Alford, Canterbury), 6 December [18?], providing a letter of introduction for Hale. • ALS addressed Dear Madam, 24 June 1904, "I am glad to do what you wish."• Partial ALS, n.d., noting that he will visit the recipient on Tuesday (the 28th) and return to Boston on the Saturday. • Partial ALS, n.d., "am preparing to leave home."1 TLS;• ALS to Mrs. Ramsey, 23 March 1898, "Here is a little mere MS. I should like as soon as you can manage. Yours sinecerelt W.D. Howells."1 Ledger account book; • A. Hamilton written on label on upper board, dated January 1864. 150+ pp. Boston, from the Whitman family papers, 1,000s of entries including payments to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale (14 December 1864) and to soldiers groups. Brown marbled paper boards. quarter bound in brown cloth.4 Books with 4 pp. ALS by Hale tipped into 1 book;• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, From Ponkapog to Pesth (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), green cloth, signed note by Hale on front free endpaper ("I am glad to do what you wish", 28 December 1896), bookplate of Chalmers Hadley. • Hale, James Russell Lowell and His Friends (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), brownish red cloth, includes ALS from Hale to Mr. Miller affixed to the front free endpaper, 23 February 1894, re bibliography that he will be sending to Miller. • The Only True Mother Goose (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1905), pictorial paper boards, quarter bound in beige cloth, chipped dust jacket, very good otherwise. Introduction written by Hale, quote from Julia Ward Howe written on front free endpaper, signed on p. xii by Hale and Harriet Blackstone C. Butler (credited by Hale for rescuing the original text published in 1833). • The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1917), 2 vols., grey paper boards with green cloth spines and corners, title in gilt on spines, top edge gilt, large paper edition, limited to 295 sets, this set numbered 9. Includes ALS by Hale, 4 pp., tipped into vol. 1, addressed "Dear Brity?", 20 February 1882, re Hale being in Washington at the Congress Library looking at Drake's voyages and early Spanish voyages, marrying a couple and christening their nephew, visiting Irving Emerson. Hale's signature on a paper label is affixed to the front free endpaper in vol. 2. Previous owners' bookplate (Mary Fieda and Frank George Webster) on the front pastedown of both vols.3 Photos;• Carte-de-visite of Hale looking at sheet of paper, issued by Warren's, Boston, Mass. • Cabinet photo of Hale looking at sheet of paper, slight tear at bottom right.• Large b&w photo of Hale, 35 x 26 cm, n.d. but circa 1900-9 near the end of his life, bearded Hale wearing a hat and jacket and with cane. A couple of nicks, slight tear on the left side, and small piece missing on the right-hand bottom corner7 Ephemera; • Postcard, post-marked 5 September [1910?], with color photo of Hale's home at Roxbury, Mass. • Postcard, 1940, printed quotation about Chautauqua from Hale's Tarry at Home Travels. • Card depiction of Hale (MORAL AND RELIGIOUS) with references to Henry Ward Beecher, T.S. Arthur, and Horatio Alger Jr. • 2 photo prints, one copyright, 1902, by Rockwood.• TLS (splits at the folds) addressed Dear Sir, 27 December 1900, re the Broadway Tabernacle, one of its founders being

Seller: Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada