James, Henry

8vo, 2 volumes, first edition, advertisements at the end of both volumes, original light blue diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, circular ornament in blind on upper cover, publisher's device in blind on lower cover, minor offsetting to endpapers, upper joint of volume 1 and joints of volume 2 slightly cracked or starting, expert repair work to head and base of spines and corners, a few tiny bumps to binding

Edel and Laurence A47a

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The Other House, the only Henry James novel to centre around a murder, was published on 1st October 1896, in an edition of 600 copies, having previously appeared as a serial in the Illustrated London News the same year. This copy has one of a number of variant advertisements at the end of volume 1 (no apparent priority), comprising 32 undated, unnumbered pages, with the recto of the first leaf advertising Hall Caine's The Maxman.