[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED William James THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THE LATE HENRY JAMES

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JAMES, William. THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THE LATE HENRY JAMES. Boston: 
James R. Osgood & Company, 1885. First Edition. Illustrated with a 
frontispiece portrait of the subject, the father of William and Henry 
James. Edited with an introduction by William James who has INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED the book on the front blank: "Miss Jane Norton/with 
affectionate regards/Wm. James." Grace Norton, sister of Charles Eliot 
Norton, was an expert on Montaigne and the works of other French 
authors. She was a frequent correspondent of both William and Henry 
James. Books signed by this great American psychologist and philosopher 
are excessively scarce. Remnant of a newspaper clipping of Henry James, 
Sr.'s obituary on the front endpaper with resulting shadow to the front 
pastedown. Rebacked retaining most of the original spine which is now a 
little dull..
William James, brother of the noted novelist Henry James, Jr., is 
generally considered to be, along with Emerson, the greatest philosophic 
American mind. He is best known for his book VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS 
EXPERIENCE and his theory of Pragmatism, an advanced philosophy based on 
the doctrine that truth is based on experience and observation. 
(#019568)        $2,500.00

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