The siege of London: Madame de Mauves,

James Osgood, 1883. 2nd. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1883 association copy (children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak), second edition, James R. Osgood and Co. (Boston), green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 294 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a small bit of red staining to the rear cover. Spine very slightly cocked. A couple of pencil bibliographic notations to the blank front and rear endpapers, possibly by former owner, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). Otherwise, apart from very slight age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. No Sendak bookplate, but a certificate of provenance is laid in from the auction house which establishes that the book was from the personal library of Sendak, and was sold on behalf of the famed Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. Sendak was known to be an inveterate reader of nineteenth-century authors, including Henry James. His library included a large number of volumes by and about James, including this gem. ~SP08~ [2.0P] In this work, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however, is not a product of the Boston or New York upper classes, but of the American West, and is thus distinguished from the characters of many of his other transatlantic works. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. Maurice Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.