Search Results: Stories Revived by Henry James

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1885. Very Good -. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. First Edition. Three octavo volumes. 280 p.; 280 p.; 269 p. + 2 p. advertisements. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. BAL binding variant "A," with no priority established. Brown endpapers. Boards are worn along extremities with exposure and loss at spine ends. Joints of volume III exposed. Moderate rippling to front and rear boards. Slight lean to spine. Bindings holding, though volume III a bit shaky. Sparse pencil annotations to end of volume I, but otherwise pages unmarked. This set was printed in a run of 500 copies, and includes "The Author of 'Beltraffio,'" "A Day of Days," and "Master Eustace," among others. [BAL 10573; Edel A27].

1885. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 2 pp undated Vol III ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. These three volumes consist of fourteen tales here "revived," that James had written some years earlier -- most from the 1870s, with some from the 1860s. Eight of them had been collected in America, either in A PASSIONATE PILGRIM (1875) or in THE AUTHOR OF BELTRAFFIO (1885, three months earlier). The other six appear here in book form for the first time: "A Day of Days," "A Landscape Painter," "Rose-Agathe," "Poor Richard," "Master Eustace" and "A Most Extraordinary Case." As James points out in his Vol I "Notice," "... these earlier stories have been in every case minutely revised and corrected -- many passages being wholly rewritten." This set is in E&L's binding variant "a" (no priority) -- with the "V" no larger than the "OL" on the spines, and with dark brown coated endpapers. Condition is very good-plus: there is minor wear in a few places along… Read More

London: MacMillan and Co, 1885. First edition. Three octavo volumes. 7 3/8 x 4 15/16 inches, 189 x 127 mm). [8], 280; [8, including preliminary blank], 280; [8, including preliminary blank], 269, [1, blank], [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. BAL binding "C", no priority. Full green cloth. Boards triple-ruled in black ink, spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Blue patterned endpapers. Top edges green. Mostly unopened. Each volume with a old library bookplate from "Library of the Supreme Council, 33...Washington, D.C.." on front paste-down. With some minor professional restoration to the spines of each volume. Some glue residue to inner margin of final leaf of volume I. Back free endpaper of volume II a bit chipped along edges, and with some professional repairs. Preliminary blank of volume III with a one-inch closed tear to outer margin, and inner hinges with some repair. Outer front corners of volume III a bit bumped. Overall a very nice set with bright gilt spines. Housed in a custom slipcase.… Read More