Daisy Miller
by James, Henry
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
West Virginia: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco), 1974. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition Thus. Octavo, bone white cloth with embossed title and gilt spine titles and decorations. Illustrated endpapers. 130 pp Illustrated with black and white reproductions of works by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Limjted Edition. Designed by Bradbury Thompson. An elegant and charming edition of this Henry James classic. A tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread volume with very fresh cloth and glittering spine titles and decorations, in a charcoal grey slipcase which is flawless. Very Fine in Very Fine slipcase. AS NEW..
Synopsis
Daisy Miller, an 1878 novella by Henry James, portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a more sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08937
- Title
- Daisy Miller
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco)
- Place of Publication
- West Virginia
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Westvaco, James, Novel, American, Classic, Limited, Edition, Fine, Binding, Illustrated, Novel, American, , Bradbury Thompson, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Expatriate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- New
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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