London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. First U.K. Edition. One of James's best-known works – a novella charting the courtship and death of Daisy Miller, a young American girl, pursued by Frederick Winterbourne while in Switzerland, and an Italian man of questionable reputation while visiting Rome. First serialized in The Cornhill..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1880. First American Edition. First (only) Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark olive-drab cloth, titled in red on spine and front cover; brown coated endpapers; viii,[1]-177,[1] + [6]pp ads. Trivial wear to spine ends, else a fresh, Fine copy. Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, part of the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First One-Volume Edition. First Impression, one of 500 copies. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, with black and gilt-stamped decorative bands along the spine and front cover; dark brown endpapers; [viii],[1]-401,[402-404] + 24pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, scattered foxing to..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. A sharp copy of James's first novel, serialized between August-December, 1871 in the Atlantic Monthly. It did not appear in book format until Osgood proposed publication in April, 1878. James implemented moderate revisions to the text between the serialization and it's appearance..... More