JAMES, Henry.
The American.
Henry James' The American; Signed and dated by Him
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1895.
$2,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-119732
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
Early printing of this masterly early work by James. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Henry James February 11th 1895." In very good condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell box.
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.
The American.
$2,800.00
Out of Stock
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