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Price: US$54.13 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: The first of the three tales contained in this volume is reprinted from the ''Cornhill Magazine''. The second is transferred from the ''Atlantic Monthly''. The last originally appeared in the Parisian. So First Thus But First in Book form. This copy specially bound for the New Zealand General Library (Now Parliament). Half brown leather, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and armorial device of the library to the front board set in gilt. Board edges are heavily rubbed. Library book plate to front marbled paste down, over stamped canceled. Front hinge is cracked and very shaky. Silk marker. Contents are clean and bright, save for some light foxing to prelims. Some minor offsetting. Card holder to rear pastedown. 401pp.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in the late 19th Century in a half-calf library binding. Chipped paper library label on spine. Some heavy rubbing and marks to boards and spine. Hinges broken. Free endpapers lacking. 1" and smaller tears to lower margins of first 8 leaves. A longer 2" tear to one text leaf. A reading copy. ; First one volume edition of these three works together (preceded by a two volume edition in the same year). viii, 401 pages. Green half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 180 x 118mm. "The first of the three tales contained in this volume is reprinted from the 'Cornhill Magazine.' The second is transferred from the 'Atlantic Monthly;' the last originally appeared in 'The Parisian.'" - page (v). ; Ex-Library; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$406.44 + shipping
Description: [8]+401+[24]pp. 8vo. Original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated blue cloth, lightly worn at extremities. Upper hinge broken. Scattered foxing. A very good copy. First one-volume edition.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition. Two volumes bound in one, 265, 371 (i.e. 271)pp., contemporary black half calf, puce morocco grain cloth boards, marbled end-papers and edges, brown label. Shorn of half-titles, blanks and fly-title to Vol. I; the 'Note' on periodical appearances is present but misbound within signature S. Despite the absence of extraneous leaves, an extremely fresh, clean copy in a neat, bright binding. The first impression, with the misnumbered pages in Vol. II, and one of 500 copies printed.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition of Henry James's moving New York story about a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor, successfully serialized on both sides of the Atlantic, and published in the United States in 1880: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Washington Square appears here with two 1879 stories by James: "The Pension Beaurepas," which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and "A Bundle of Letters," which appeared in The Parisian. An early newspaper photograph of what appears to be the James family home on Washington Place has been pasted into Volume I; the residential block where James was born was demolished in 1900 to make way for a ten-story commercial building, the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. This is the second impression of the first English edition of Washington Square, issued two months after the first impression, with pagination errors corrected, "Henry James, Jun." printed on spines, and no publisher's catalog in Volume II. Edel and Laurence A15b. A crisp near-fine copy. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher's devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated endpapers, all edges untrimmed. Bookplates of James collector John M. Cameron in both volumes; newspaper photograph mounted to verso of half-title in Volume I. Penciled bookseller notes to lower pastedown of Volume I; lightest shelfwear to cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase by Rene Patron.
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5797.18 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some shelfwear, egdes of boards rubbed, some wear to joints and corners, inner paper joints parted, 'Mudie' labels to upper covers, neat shelf number '692' to prelims. Remains presentable. A most unusual 'issue', recorded in the bibliography and consisting of the corrected (second) printing of the sheets in the first impression blue-green binding. Only 250 corrected sheets were published and should be bound in brown cloth with yellow endpapers and re-cut brasses to spine; we note two other copies of this 'hybrid', one at University of Texas (recorded by Edel and Laurence), and a copy sold at auction (Swann Galleries, 1989). Rare thus. Henry James classic short novel is a deceptively simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. Edel and Laurence [A15b].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$35427.23 + shipping
Description: First UK edition in book form, first impression with the three misnumbered pages in volume II, in the first state of the binding. Only 500 sets were printed, and this copy is in truly exceptional condition. The UK edition was preceded by the American edition by a month. The UK edition also included The Pension Beaurepas, not previously published in book form, and A Bundle of Letters, which had previously been published in book form in America. The first impression was issued with either brown or white endpapers, without priority. The first impression was followed by a second in March 1881, distinguished by the correction of the misnumbered pages; the second impression binding was altered to red-brown cloth, though some second impression copies are known in the first impression cloth and with later advertisements dated January 1881. Sadleir identifies two further variants for this first impression, one slightly shorter and one slightly larger, hypothesizing the shorter (as this copy) represents a subsequent binding up, but Edel and Laurence did not give an opinion on this and only state that the variants are noted. Provenance: Sotheby's, Library of an English Bibliophile part I, 18 October 2010, lot 84, £16,875 with premium. BAL 10552; Edel and Laurence A15b; Sadleir 1295a; Supino 15.3.0. 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind, brown endpapers. Housed in a green cloth folding box by B. W. Gabriel. With 40 pp. of advertisements at end of volume 2 dated December 1879. Some minor spotting to edges and sporadically to contents, one gathering in vol. II ever so slightly sprung, in all other respects a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom