The Private Life: The Wheel of Time. Lord Beaupre. The Visits. Collaboration. Owen Wingrave
by James, Henry
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: James R. Osgood., McIlvaine & Co, 1893. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth, title gilt on spine and front panel, which has a floral decoration in gilt. vi, 331, [publisher's device] pp. A collection of short stories. From the library of Beatrix Farrand, with her bookplate on the the front pastedown and initialed by Mary Cadwalader Jones on front free endpaper: "M. C. J. Paris, 1895." Beatrix Farrand was one of America's greatest landscape architects. Her mother, Mary Cadwalader Jones, was the sister-in-law, and literary agent of Edith Wharton. Jones was a close friend of Henry James, who was often a guest at her town house in New York City. Foxing to edges and several pages including endpapers, else VG.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5409
- Title
- The Private Life: The Wheel of Time. Lord Beaupre. The Visits. Collaboration. Owen Wingrave
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood., McIlvaine & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Fiction;
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