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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition, from the Edinburgh [Blackwood] sheets with new title page; two volumes in publisher's dark green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, ex-library with most of the usual flaws, covers loosening at inner joints, even overall rubbing to covers
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1903. First American edition.2 vol.set. Green cloth boards show lightest rubs to 2 top corners of vol. 1 only. Both spines show light bumping to both head and heels. PO book plate to both vols. o/w interiors free from any other markings. Hinges and binfdings are strong. TEG. A well cared for 2 vol. set. Size: 8vo
Seller: High Enterprises, Olympia, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$67.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 371, 345 p. bookplate of the Fraser Institute. code 1093
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two octavo volumes. Pp.371, 345. Slight lean to both spines, else fine, in green cloth boards with gilt lines and titling. T.e.g. LAID-IN IS A CARTE DE VISITE WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF W.W. STORY.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volume set. BAL 10655 setting B. Edel and Laurence A59b. Light wear to the extremities. The rear boards a bit rubbed, with some tiny spots. Otherwise fine, apparently unread copies, with a few leaves unopened. A very handsome set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rubbing to bottom edges and corners, to the boards in a couple of places. Tight, clean and bright, with no split hinges. An attractive set.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY. William Wetmore Story. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1903.
Price: US$111.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: William Wetmore Story And His Friends From Letters, Diaries, And Recollections. Two Volumes, very light foxing to first few pages of Volumes (Pretty Common) otherwise books are very clean, tight, and complete. First American Edition. VOL. I 371 pp. and 345 pp. VOL. II Top Edge Gilt
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 371, 345. Bound in dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Little light fxing o/w a fine copy. BAL 10655; Edel & Laurence A59b. Issued simultaneously in the US & UK.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
James, Henry. WILLIAM WETMORE STORY and His Friends. In Two Volumes. , 1903.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903. Original dark green cloth. First American Edition, first state, of this bibliographically-complex biography by James. William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) graduated from Harvard College in 1838 and Harvard Law School in 1840, but after practicing under his father for a decade, in 1850 he moved permanently to Rome to follow his real passion, sculpture. HJ had met Story in Rome in the 1870s. After Story's death, his family asked HJ to write a biography -- which HJ did, but with difficulty, because he thought Story was more of a wealthy dilettante than an accomplished artist. Hence the "and His Friends" -- HJ concentrated on Robert and Elizabeth Browning, James Russell Lowell, and others of greater fame than Story. According to E&L, a total of about 2250 sets were printed by Blackwood in five indistinguishable printings, and of these, 1800 were exported to the U.S. and issued with Houghton Mifflin title pages dated either 1903 or 1904 -- leaving 450 with Blackwood title pages. (According to Blanck, the exact numbers were 2218 and 1780, leaving 438 Blackwood copies.) Blanck describes two different settings of print for Vol I signatures A through Q, with many minor differences between the two; Blanck postulates that setting "A" probably preceded setting "B" (since the 1904-dated American copies have setting "B" -- also because one variation, the word "ex-tremly" on p. 158, is misspelled in "A" but is correct in "B"). In any event, this set is dated 1903, and Vol I A-Q is in "Setting A" -- the presumed first state. This set is in near-fine condition -- it would be fine, except for moderate foxing on the leaves. Edel & Laurence A59b; Blanck 10655.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition, American Imprint using the original English sheets. With fine frontispieces in photogravure in each volume. 8vo, publisher's original dark-green cloth, the spines lettered and ruled in gilt, the upper covers ruled in gilt at the head, top edges gilt. [vi], 371; [vi], 345 pp. A fine set in exemplary condition, clean and bright both inside and out. FIRST EDITION RARELY FOUND IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. Henry James's fine work on William Story, the great American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor. He was son of Joseph Story, the famed jurist, and was himself a graduate of Harvard Law School where he had excelled. James's work is biographical in nature, and considers Story's life from the early years in Boston and Cambridge to his years in Rome where he had lived from 1850. James highlights the Palazzo Barberini, Story's apartment in Rome which became a central location for Americans in Rome. Story counted among his friends the Brownings and Walter Savage Landor among others. Chapters include what James called Story's middle years in Rome, the importance of Siena, his famous sculptures of Cleopatra and the Libyan Sibyl and England and its society. The later Roman years were rich with American commissions and celebratory events. William Wetmore Story is famous for the bust of his father, now at Harvard University, his Medea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his other life-size statues of Saul, Sappho, Electra, Solomon, Orestes and Shakespeare among others. Henry James concentrated especially on the "friends" of the title which included the Brownings, Landor, James Russell Lowell and other figures even more prominent than Story himself. The biography is especially a reminiscence on Italy and the notables that Story had made such an important part of his life. There are many quotes from the fine letters written to Story by his friends. And he wrote sympathetically of the old Roman, American-Roman, Hawthornesque and other bygone days. Wiki
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$376.96 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. First U.S. edition. (from English sheets). 8vo., orig. green cloth, 371; 345pp. A fine copy. Edel & Laurence A59b, BAL 10655.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada