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Published by Wildside Press, Pennsylvania
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Very slight rubbing at tail of spine. Some rubbing and creasing along head of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 266 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 229mm x 150mm. "We talked of London, face to face with a great bristling, primeval glacier. The hour and the scene were one of those impressions which make up a little, in Switzerland, for the modern indignity of travel - the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy attention, the reduction to a numbered state." - the opening sentences. Texts from the 1893 London edition. ; 8vo.
Published by James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1893
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Private Life, The Wheel of Time, Lord Beaupre, The Visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave, by Henry James, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London, 1893, 331 pp, blue decorative cloth, 8 x 5.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Light wear to extremities with minor crushing to corners and end bands. Light soiling to covers, gilt work bright. Inner gutter is tender with slightly shaken binding. End papers soiled with toning and light foxing. Small oval of indentation on tile. Gutters tender overall. Interior is lightly toned at edges with minor instances of foxing. Free of known markings except for an old bookseller s sticker on the rear fly leaf. Dunster House Bookshop Cambridge, Sep. 11, 1920-alone $1.25 . Please see photos.
[the John Quinn copy] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition, primary binding state (with the elaborate silver grille-work on front cover and spine, and with the leaves' top edge stained ochre). This primary binding also appears, less commonly, in olive cloth; there is also a total of seven secondary, less ornate, bindings. THE WHEEL OF TIME. was soon issued as the companion volume to this one, containing the other three stories that had appeared in the six-story English edition of THE PRIVATE LIFE. This is a close-to-fine copy (spine cloth slightly darkened). Supino 39.2.0; Edel & Laurence A39b. Provenance: bookplate of John Quinn (1870-1924) -- the Ohio-born lawyer who was not simply a major collector of 1890-1924 literature, he was an important patron of literary figures. He bought up most of Joseph Conrad's manuscripts to provide the author with much-needed cash, he gave advice and financial assistance to Ezra Pound and to T.S. Eliot (in gratitude, Eliot sent Quinn the original manuscript of THE WASTE LAND), he helped W.B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre, he fought censorship battles over ULYSSES for James Joyce.