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The Ivory Tower
by James, Henry
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: W. Collins Sons & Co, Ltd, 1917. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. (Precedes the American edition.) viii, 348 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Upper tips worn, else Fine with slight oxidization to gilt, offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, with typical wrinkling from the author photo mounted on front panel, a few small dampstains and darkening to spine panel, slightly edge-chipped. An unfinished novel by the popular American author, hailed for its critique of the ultra-rich of the Gilded Age.
Synopsis
Henry James (1843–1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Wings of the Dove . In addition to The New York Stories of Henry James , New York Review Classics has published several long-unavailable James novels: The Other House, The Outcry, and The Ivory Tower . Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell , The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement , Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian . Hollinghurst’s fourth novel, The Line of Beauty , won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140941107
- Title
- The Ivory Tower
- Author
- James, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. Collins Sons & Co, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- GIlded Age, wealth, social criticism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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