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Library of America/ University of Cambridge, UK, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Written in London and Italy between 1879 and 1885, these novels portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. Studies in the exercise of power that mark relations between sexes, classes, and cultures, they show James' special solicitude for the young heroines who occupy the center of his fictional world."" [Dust Jacket] There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST PRINTING.

The Bobs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, Hardcover. Fine /General wear to extremities; large chip with paper loss at bottom right corner of cover; small tear at top left of front cover. Chipping with paper loss at top and botrtom of spine, small tear also at top; small tear at top of back cover.. "This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semi-legendary characters - with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen... In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." [Introduction by Henry Steele Commager] Illustrated. There is a protective mylar cover. Pulitzer Prize for Biography (for 'The Raven')

Frederick Warne, London, c. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Short biographies and critical commentary on the lives and works of 52 English poets roughly organized by date of death. 17th and 18th century English poets. Accounts meant not just to inform but to be pleasing for the reader. Newer edition with complete index. 1st thus.