Search results for: 'JAMES, Henry'
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JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales.New York : 1922
Second New York Edition, the first and best collected edition of Henry James' works. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 68528
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JAMES, Henry. The Complete Plays.London : 1949
A handsomely bound copy of James's plays. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 132027
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JAMES, Henry. Washington Square.New York : 1950
Part of Random House's The Modern Library series, attractively rebound in a handsome binding. James's classic novel was first published in 1880. Learn More£195.00Stock Code: 121867
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JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales.New York : 1907
The New York Edition, the first and best collected edition of James's works. Complete as originally published in 1907 with 24 volumes, together with the two pendent volumes separately issued in 1917. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 138043
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WOTTON, Sir Henry. A Parallell betweene Robert late Earle of Essex, and George late Duke of Buckingham.London : 1641
First edition. "These notices of Wotton's two chief Patrons are his most valuable contribution to the History of his own Times" (Hannah, p. xvii).
The author and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) entered, in 1594, the service of Robert Devereux (1565-1601), second Earl of Essex, as his agent and secretary, supplying intelligence of affairs... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140752
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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Works.Boston : 1873
A handsomely bound and illustrated set of Longfellow's works. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 138407
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WALTON, Isaak. Walton's Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson.London : 1858
Second issue of this New Edition, first published the previous year, the text largely based on John Major's 1825 edition, with the addition of Dowling's memoir of Walton. William Mansell was successor to the famed James Hayday. Large armorial bookplate of Charles Preston Crewe to the front pastedown. Born in London, Crewe travelled to South Africa in... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 95258
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DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend.London : 1865
First edition of Dickens's last completed novel, bound from the original parts as issued from May 1864 to November 1865, with the stab-holes visible; handsomely bound.
"Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (the young Henry James's harshly dismissive review in The Nation is notorious) but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 147990
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LENNOX, Charlotte. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune,London : 1777
The eighth edition, first published in 1755 in 3 volumes and subsequently expanded to 5, of this much republished account of one of Henry the Great's main advisers.
Charlotte Lennox (c.17301804), was a Scottish novelist and writer, best known today for her second novel The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752), an imitation and... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 134471
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TASSO, Torquato. Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered.London : 1817
First edition thus, one of 50 large paper copies. A highly appealing edition printed by the excellent Thomas Bensley and with delightful wood-engravings, perhaps by Bewick's pupil Henry White, after designs by John Thurston. Fairfax's translation was originally published in 1600; the first English translation of Tasso's poetical account of the first... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 121168
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LENNOX, Charlotte. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune,London : 1778
An attractive and well-preserved set in 'Etruscan' calf, most probably executed by the esteemed bindery of the Edwards of Halifax. This is the ninth edition (first published in 1755 in 3 volumes and subsequently expanded to 5) of this much republished translation by Lennox of the history of one of Henry the Great's main advisers.
Charlotte Lennox... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 133228
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HAMILTON, Anthony, Count, & Mr. [Abel] Boyer, (trans.) Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont:London : 1714
First edition in English of this anonymously published account of Anthony Hamilton's brother-in-law, French nobleman Philibert, Count de Gramont (1621-1707), and the intrigues of the Restoration court. This first edition is commercially uncommon, particularly in such an attractive binding.
"The book was greeted with considerable critical acclaim... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133350
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.London : 1857
A handsomely bound copy of Boswell's famous biography, which was first published in 1791. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144274
