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$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The two volumes are both in very good condition and have minimal shelf wear considering their age. There is some foxing on the paper at the ends of each book probably due to the paper that was used in the printing
Seller: Post Road Gallery, Larchmont, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$167.78 + shipping
Description: First edition. (8), (first leaf blank) 371; (8) (first leaf blank), 345 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Unopened copy in fine condition, except that top edges are foxed.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$182.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Two volumes, 371, 345pp., blue flecked cloth, stamped in gilt. Edges spotted, but a nice, bright copy, partly unopened.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Henry James. William Wetmore Story and His Friends. William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1903.
Price: US$214.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete two volume set of this biography of sculptor William Wetmore Story by Henry James, in the first edition. First edition copies, complete in two volumes.William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor and this volume details his life, work and friends from letters, diaries and recollections. Some of the friends include Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and James Russell Lowell. Written by Henry James, the American-British author who is considered amongst the greatest novelists in the English language.With a frontispiece to both volumes.Some of the pages remain unopened. Both are in the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart with some light marks to the boards and light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Some of the pages remain unopened.Internally, firmly bound with bright pages with some light scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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$250.00 + shipping
Description: first edition; textblock both volumes very good, some toning and spots; edges a bit shelf soiled; bindings both volumes good plus, signs of wear, esp. etremities, corners bumped, vol. II a bit blistered, bookplate on ffep; vol. I 371 pages; vol. II 345 pages; frontispieces; index; the scarcer British edition, in nice collectible condition;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY.. William Wetmore Story and His Friends. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1903, 1903.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; two volumes; the English and American editions were issued simultaneously; BAL's 'setting A,' which evidence suggests is the earliest printing. Publisher's cloth; some bubbling and small tears; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'To George Meredith/ his affectionate old friend Henry James.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.