[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: HENRY JAMES books, some with interesting provenance

[Norman Kane]

THEATRICALS. TWO COMEDIES. TENANTS. DISENGAGED.  London: Osgood, &c, 1894. Orig. cloth, v.g.+. Bookplate of Adeline Tintner, author of”Henry James’s Legacy.”   First edn.  BAL 10607. 
2 COPIES.

[THE SAME.] N.Y.: Harper, 1894. Orig. cloth, v.g.+. Tintner bookplate. First US edn.  BAL 10608. 

[THE SAME], SECOND SERIES. THE ALBUM. THE REPROBATE.   N.Y.: Harper, 1895. Orig. cloth, just slightly rubbed. Tintner bookplate. 1st US edn. BAL 10611. 

THE SOFT SIDE.  London: Methuen, 1900.  Orig. cloth, W. E. Smith & Sons label on end paper. With the signature of James’s bibliographer & editor, Leon Edel – apparently his working copy.  Orig. cloth, top 1/4 inch of spine rubbed, a few marks in text and a few marginal comments. First UK edn. BAL 10640. 

NOTE AND REVIEWS. . . . 25 PAPERS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM.  Cambridge, Mass.: Dunster House, 1921. Orig. blue cloth/boards, v.g., with prospectus . First trade edn.  BAL 10708

LETTERS TO A. C. BENSON & AUGUSTE MONOD. EDITED BY E. F. BENSON.  London:Elkin Mathews & Marrot; N.Y.: Scribner, 1930. Original cloth, v.g.+. Leon Edel’s copy. 1 of 500 copies for the U.S. (whole edn., 1050.)  1st edn (except for 4 copies).  BAL 10714. 

THE COMPLETE PLAYS. EDITED BY LEON EDEL.  London: Hart-Davis, n.d., [1949]. Large 8vo, v.g., in d.w. with several tears. With the bookplate of H. Montgomery Hyde (M.P., champion of homosexual rights, and a cousin of James) showing the door of his home “Lamb House”, where James had lived and written for almost 20 years. Clippings laid in. 1st London edn.  BAL 10728. 

[THE SAME], Phila.: Lippincott, (1949). Orig. cloth, v.g. 1st printing. BAL 10728.

GUY DOMVILLE, A PLAY IN THREE ACTS . . . London: Hart-Davis, 1961. Orig. cloth, v.g.+, in d.w.
BAL 10828.  2 COPIES. 

THE AMBASSADORS. WITH ILLUS. BY LESLIE SAALBURG. Limited Editions Club, 1963. 1 of 1500 signed by the artist. 4to, excellent copy, boxed. 

GEISMAR, MAXWELL.  HENRY JAMES AND THE JACOBITES. Boston: Houghton, 1963. Uncorrected proof in orig. wraps, spiral-bound. With the publisher’s(?) blurb. 

The lot, $125.00 ($100.00 to the trade) + postage

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