![Item #BB2802 The Princess Casamassima [First Issue]. Henry JAMES](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2802.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678315011)
London and New York: Macmillan, 1886. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First American (and first single-volume) Edition, First Issue (with 1886 title page), of James’s only overtly political novel. Crown 8vo (187 x 117mm): [4],596pp. BAL first-state binding: blue-green S cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and black, rear..... more
Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879 [but 1878]. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition, published less than one month after the London edition, one of only 1500 copies. 8vo: [2],281,[1]pp. Publisher's dark green finely woven dotted-line-grain cloth (Kelly green and terra-cotta were also used, no priority known) over beveled boards, spine stamped..... more
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone, MDCCCXCVIII [1898]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this novella centering on an unnamed London telegraphist, who deciphers clues to her clients's personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at the post..... more