JAMES HENRY The Bostonians

Sale 2478 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 1,500

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

JAMES, HENRY. The Bostonians. 3 volumes. Half-titles. 8vo, bound in early but not original plain blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spines with no publisher's device, joints split on first vol., spine tips bumped; bookplate to front pastedowns and flyleaves, foxing, chiefly to front and end matter. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

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presumed first edition, early printing, with 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of volume 2 (the four pages of ads at the end of volume 3 mentioned by BAL are not present). A possible remainder binding. Blanck notes that there may be a point to distinguish the two printings: the running head on page 31 in the first volume, this copy with the chapter number incorrect. BAL 10575; Edel & Laurence A28a.