first edition Hardcover
1878 · London
by JAMES, Henry, Jr.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1878. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 439pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Page 280 incorrectly numbered as 80. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, hinges cracked, endpapers foxed with crack in rear, tears on front joint with spine ends bumped, a good only copy with some pencil marginalia. Some of these essays originally appeared in periodicals. Essays on Alfred De Musset, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Honoré De Balzac, Balzac's Letters, George Sand, Charels De Bernard and Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgénieff, The Two Ampères, Madame De Sabran, Mérimée's Letters, The Théâtre Français. (Inventory #: 408169)