James, Henry

8vo, 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at end of volumes 2 and 3, PRESENTATION COPY WITH PRINTED SLIP TIPPED-IN AT THE BEGINNING OF VOLUME 1 ("From the author"), original blue-green cloth, covers with black fillet borders, spines lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers, preserved in quarter blue morocco folding box, occasional foxing OTHERWISE A NEAR FINE COPY

Edel and Laurence A29a

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First edition of the first of James's "political novels."