The Sacred Fount
by James, Henry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. An intriguing late novel by Henry James (1843-1916), written just prior to "The Wings of the Dove" and "The Ambassadors." This tale of sexual energy baffled many of the earlier critics, but now receives more serious scrutiny. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition, which precedes the English version. Not common. Smooth tan cloth binding, ruled and lettered in gilt. Clean text; 319 pages.Top-edge is gilt, others rough-cut. Tiny bookseller's label on the rear paste-down. Slight bumping and a faint stain on the rear panel; else a Fine copy. Lacking a dustjacket. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004216
- Title
- The Sacred Fount
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...