The Ambassadors
by James, Henry
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Slip Cased
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Slip case shows light soiling along one edge. Book itself is very attractive.. Reprint. Cloth. Fine/Slip Cased. Illus. by Leslie Saalburg. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Classics.
Synopsis
Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business. Mrs. Newsome is an invalid and cannot go to Paris to fetch her son herself, so she employs Lambert Strether and Sarah Pocock to return Chad to Massachusetts. Sarah has been to Paris before and is aware of its attractiveness, so her determination to succeed in this task is fixed and uncompromising. Strether is of later middle age, however, and inspired by the fairytale of a beautiful life in Europe. Mrs. Newsome has promised to marry Strether if he can bring Chad home. Strether is completely enamored by the Parisian character and its enchantments and has a difficult time completing his mission. The drama of reestablishing Chad in business in America and of coming to terms with the mythological romance of France leaves the reader unbalanced, trying to recover equilibrium in the real world. Those involved with Chad's rescue are compelled to recognize the deep intimacies of personal attachment and the accepted proprieties of direct consequence. The success and failures of such an undertaking are unpredictable. The result of every character's attempt to steer Chad rightly is a strange conglomeration of role reversal, fantasy, and truth.
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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000973
- Title
- The Ambassadors
- Author
- James, Henry
- Illustrator
- Leslie Saalburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Slip Cased
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Authors;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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