Henry James and the Expanding Horizon: A Study of the Meaning and Basic Themes of James's Fiction - Association copy owned by Alice B. Toklas

Andreas, Osborn

Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1948

About this Item

SIGNED - Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with light accompanying rubbing. Just enough rubbing to the corners to take the color off of their tips. White endpapers. Front endpapers have some faint smudges from handling over time. Front endpaper has a name in black pen that has been colored over in blue pen, under which is the inscription, "Paris, April 24, 1949." Free front endpaper bears the inscription: "This copy is for / Miss Alice Toklas / Osborn Andreas." Binding is straight and tight. Light dust stain on the upper edge of the textblock and a couple small brown spots together on the outside edge of the textblock. Pages, inside, are clean, white, and crisp. Author Osborn Andreas was a wealthy industrialist from Chicago who produced well received work on both Henry James (this copy) and Joseph Conrad, and became a patron to American writer James Purdy. By way of the date on the free front endpaper, this copy looks to have been gifted to Toklas in, or shortly after, 1949, two to three years after Gertrude Stein's death, while she was still living in the apartment where Stein held her famous literary salons. Seller Inventory # 002426

Bibliographic Details

Title: Henry James and the Expanding Horizon: A ...

Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle

Publication Date: 1948

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: VG+

Signed: Signed by the Author

Edition: No Additional Printings Listed.