JAMES, HENRY | A Group of Four First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

JAMES, HENRY

A Group of Four First Editions

Roderick Hudson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. 8vo (4 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.; 120 x 187 mm). Minor toning. Original full green cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; minor shelfwear. First issue, first binding state, fewer than 1,600 copies printed. BAL 10531; Edel & Laurence A3; Supino 3.1.0. Frederic Bronson (bookplate to front pastedown) — The Diary of a Man of Fifty and a Bundle of Letters. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. 32mo (3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.; 80 x 121 mm). Publisher's advertisements at front and back. Original tan wrappers printed in red and black; minor toning and rubbing, one or two chips to spine. In custom blue silk over marbled board clamshell case. First American edition of the first title, first authorized edition of the second. BAL 10550; Edel & Laurence A14 — Washington Square. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. 8vo (4 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.; 115 x 168 mm). Etched frontispiece, 5 plates, and in-text illustrations by George Du Maurier, publisher's advertisements at end; minor toning. Original olive cloth, upper cover and spine pictorially stamped in plum and gilt in design by Du Maurier, brown coated endpapers; minor shelfwear. First edition. BAL 10551. — Stories Revived. London: MacMillan and Co., 1885. Three volumes, 8vo (4 7/8 x in.; 125 x mm). Half-titles, publisher's advertisements to the end of Vol. III; some foxing. Original blue cloth, upper covers ruled in blind, lower in black, spines gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; some rubbing and soiling, bookplates removed from front pastedowns. Each in custom blue silk over marbled board clamshell case. First Edition. BAL 10573; Edel & Laurence A27

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Together four fine first editions