The American

by James, Henry

Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

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1877
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1877. Hardcover. VG, front right bottom corner bumped. Pages clean and tight.. Green cloth cover, gilt lettering and art on front. 1 preliminary leaf, [5]-539 pages. Excellent copy of this title. Riverside college classics.
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Cambridge, MA: Houghton Miffin Co, 1907. Hardcover. Good. Riverside College Classics edition. Previous owners signature in pen on first free end paper. Pages are otherwise clean of any markings from the previous owners. Pages are lightly faded around margins. Binding is sound. Burgundy cloth boards are clean with some scuffing, rubbing, and bumping to extremities, back cover and… Read more about this item
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Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Original russet cloth. 473 pp. Spine tips frayed, gilt lettering rubbed as with most surviving copies. Slightly cocked, but still a serviceable copy of a less common and important Henry James title. Previous owner's early bookplate: Margaret & Elwood Feldstein.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1877. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1877. Later printing with no mention of Osgood imprint on spine. Octavo. 473 pages. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities with a few scuffs to rear board. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front… Read more about this item
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition in book form. The novel began serialization around the centenary of the Declaration of Independence and is based on the question of American identity. The plot revolves around the clash of cultures between a young American on a European tour and his hosts, with the implication that America lacks the… Read more about this item
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New York: Signet, 1963. Stated First printing. Paperback. Fine. New York: Signet, 1963. Stated First printing. Fine. 333pp. <br/><br/>
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1879
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London: Macmillan and Co. / Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1879. Second British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Second British edition, one of 1250 copies, preceded by Boston and Leipzig editions, and an 1877 London edition by Ward, Lock & Co. (Phillips p. 8; Edel & Laurence A4c). 2 inch split in cloth on top of… Read more about this item
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1877. Second edition. Hardcover. Fair. 473 pgs. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition of book is FAIR; spine and sides of covers faded/darkened, covers discolored, stained. Chips, small damage to spine. Ends of spine and corners very worn, edges of text block slightly foxed, top… Read more about this item
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, ca. 1900. First edition, later issue. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, with gilt decorations and lettering to the upper cover and spine panel. 473 pp. A bright and handsome copy, rear inner hinge with some wear, some old unobtrusive evidence of damp. EARLY PRINTING… Read more about this item
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MA: Houghton, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good Light browning of pages. Cover rubbed with stain on bottom.
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 473 pages. In Good plus condition. bound in Red-brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have sunning to spine, cocking to spine, rubbing to corners, fraying to spine edges, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblock has damp staining to first four pages, light age toning,… Read more about this item
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by JAMES, Henry

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New York: Grolier, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Large type edition. Octavo. 487pp. Pages lightly age-toned, spine title faded, spine slightly cocked, a good only copy. Single volume only.
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1963
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New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. 1963. 333 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and… Read more about this item
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