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James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1897.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1897. Moderate general wear. 323 pages. 6956
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. 12mo. First American Edition, issued almost simlutaneously with British first. Olive green silk binding with decoration , ruling and titles in gilt. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated (March, 1897) bookplate from one of the USA's oldest institutions. 323 pp. Beginning of fraying top and bottom of spine, light skew to boards, scuffing, thin waterstain at top of pages. Barcode inside rear board, rear hinge cracked, library pocket.Tape shadow at spine. Good. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1897.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, with 1896 on copyright page and 1897 on title page. Brown cloth with gilt titles, rule, and device on front board and spine. Hinge cracked at title page but binding is square and firm. Light wear at top and bottom of the spine, with a white mark near base of spine. An attractive copy.
Seller: a cool of books, Mastic, NY, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York, 1897.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt (binding b as per Edel). Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, text block edges typically a bit dulled by age, a few slight indentations on lower back cover. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature inked on front flyleaf. First American edition, copyrighted 1896, dated 1897 on lower main title. [ii],323 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Novel. First edition, fine binding by MacDonald - NY. Covers lightly rubbed, joints show some use, spine titles good, dated heel. Interior clean and tight, small tear on the title page top edge, pages toned.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Description: 8vo size, 323pp, original green boards with title gilt on spine and upper cover with wreath surround and gilt rule to border, gilt on spine faded and slight wear and small nicks at head and foot of spine, binding very tight and sound, text very clean, this is a very nice copy in near fine condition
Seller: Crouch Rare Books, Godalming, United Kingdom
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1897.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green ribbed cloth, gilt lettering and design on front cover and spine. Cocked, slightly worn at the head and tail of spine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$103.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering to front board and spine. Shelfwear at spine ends and tips but no fraying. Textblock tight and square with hinge almost exposed at title page but nowhere else. 1897 stated on title page. No markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition in book form, originally published in *The Atlantic Monthly* in 1896. Gilt-stamped green ribbed cloth. Gutter starting before title, lacking the front fly, very thin tideline on topedge of rear pages and two faint drip stains on front board, spine cocked with edges rubbed, very good. Author's titles list to *The Spoils of Poynton*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY.. The Spoils of Poynton. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1897, 1897.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition; probably issued a few days after the English edition, but, according to the BAL, perhaps simultaneously. Top of front hinge cracked; very good plus. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. THE SPOILS OF POYNTON. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. [iv], 323. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in gold. Little soiled, nicked at the extremities of the spine, hinge starting. December 25, 1898 ownership signature on the end paper. BAL 10623. Blanck notes that 1554 copies were bound in February of 1897 and a second printing of 508 copies was bound after March 27, 1897. BAL was unable to distinguish between the printings. This was issued in London a week prior.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Henry James. The Spoils of Poynton. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1897.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. First Printing. Green boards with gilt. Book- near fine with fading to spine.
Seller: Whiting Lane Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry.. The Spoils of Poynton.. Houghton Mifflin [1897], Boston, 1897.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edel A48bff lists two bindings for the First American Edition, "(a) dark green and (b) brown vertical-ribbed cloth" with a "first printing consisting of 1500 copies . . . and a second impression . . . of 500 copies . . . [which] lack any imprint to distinguish them from the first issue." Our copy is bound in vertically striated chocolate brown cloth with gilt stamping at spine and on front cover identical to that of the green binding, but with the following differences: The textblock is trimmed on all sides, and the title page shows no date, while the copyright page shows 1896. We are assuming that this is probably a second issue, though Edel provides no information about such a variant. An absolutely Fine example, unworn, with no signs of age or use, and scarce thus. 323pp. Q15185
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.