Lot 101
  • 101

James, Henry.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Bostonians. A Novel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886
  • paper
8vo (193 x 125mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume 2, and 4pp. of same at end of volume 3, original blue-green cloth, covers with black fillet borders, spines lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, later slipcase, some cockling to volume 2 covers

Provenance

Robert W. Cowan, armorial bookplates; Alexander M. Cowan, inkstamps and ownership inscriptions on half-titles

Literature

Edel and Laurence A28a; Sadleir 1265; Wolff 3559

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate
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