Daisy Miller

Cambridge: Printed at the University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Nebel, Gustave. One of 1500 copies, duodecimo size, 112 pp. signed by Gustave Nebel. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who wrote in the genre of both literary realism and modernism and is best known for his novels "Portrait of a Lady" and "The Ambassadors"; his works examine the often inscrutable relationships between characters. "Daisy Miller" is a novella that deals with both the interior motives of the characters' psyches and the outward traditions and prejudices encountered in society.

This publication (truncated) by The Limited Editions Club contains illustrations by French artist Gustave Nebel (1904-1988), whose watercolours are elegantly reproduced throughout the volume.

___DESCRIPTION: Full red leather, gilt initials on the front board, four raised bands on the spine, gilt ruled borders, lettering, and ornaments on the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers in red, green, and yellow, frontispiece a watercolour by Gustave Nebel, title page in yellow-green and black with yellow-green decorative border, watercolours by Nebel throughout; monotype Joanna type, Hale's cream-white antique paper, duodecimo size (7.25" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [xvii-xviii] 1-92 [93] [1 colophon], one of 1500 copies, this number 1224, signed by Gustave Nebel on the colophon. In a slipcase covered in maroon-coloured cloth.

___CONDITION: A near fine copy; the covers clean with the leather still smooth and supple, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; the spine slightly sunned, else fine. The slipcase is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean, with a few spots of light wear.

___CITATION: LEC no. 421.

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