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JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS by Austen, Jane; Johnson, R. Brimley; Cooke, William C.

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Title: JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS
Author: Austen, Jane; Johnson, R. Brimley; Cooke, William C.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: About fine.
Description: London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1894. About fine.. Fresh and beautiful late Victorian set from one of the most celebrated and widely read writers in English. Austen combines a profound artistic confidence with entertaining popular love stories. Audiences have been buoyed along for centuries by Austen's subtly bold and witty authorial voice, her novels burrowing into our collective literary consciousness. This set includes introductory notes by R. Brimley Johnson, a Cambridge professor specializing in 19th-century novels. He is best known in Austen studies for his important edition of THE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN (published the same year as this set), which Deirdre Le Faye considers the first "selected edition [...] expressly designed to reveal character and personality, as apart from the writer's genius" (Le Faye, xi). An uncommonly charming set, in exceptional condition, preserved in an early custom-made cloth box. Ten volumes, 6.75'' x 4.25'' each. Original tea green stamped boards with gilt title frames and facsimile of Austen's handwritten name to front board, gilt-stamped neoclassical frames to spines. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Full-page illustrations by William C. Cooke, ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Varying page counts, roughly 150 to 250 pages each. Housed in custom blue cloth box lined with floral patterned paper, leather title label tipped onto lid. Box gently worn. Offsetting and light foxing to endpapers, a couple volumes with slightest toning or lean to spines. Unusually fresh and lovely.

The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

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Title: The Tragic Muse
Author: James, Henry
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1894, 1895, 1890 First English edition. One of 500 copies. Three volumes, original publisher's blue cloth. Louis Auchincloss's copy bearing his bookplate to each volume. An additional former owner bookplate to the front pastedowns of each volume, some wear with fraying to spine ends and corners, short tears along spine, hinges cracked and secure. A good, completely unrestored set, housed in a custom cloth box with folding chemise. Edel & Laurence A34b. Auchincloss's writing embodied the old New York traditions of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Auchincloss wrote in his 1977 novel, The Dark Lady: "...Do you know Henry James's The Tragic Muse? It's the best novel written about an actress. A rising young diplomat asks the heroine to give up her career to become his wife and a future ambassadress...Ah how James saw it, the idiocy of any man's thinking that a real actress could even consider balancing love against the stage!" Originally published serially in seventeen installments in the Atlantic Monthly from January 1889-May 1890, The Tragic Muse was Henry James' longest novel to date. The plot tells of two aspiring artists, painter Nick Dormer and actress Miriam Rooth, who endeavor to find both artistic and commercial success. The large cast of characters that encounter Nick and Miriam throughout the text comprise a panoramic view of nineteenth century English society. James originally offered The Tragic Muse to Macmillan, but was dissatisfied with their offers. Accordingly, the first edition of this text was published on June 7, 1890, by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., and was followed by this first English edition on June 28th of the same year. Notorious for heavily editing his serialized stories before book publication, James naturally made many revisions to The Tragic Muse, and his dual publication lead to slightly different revisions in the American and English editions. Notably, the use of punctuation, specifically commas, varies significantly in the Atlantic Monthly, Houghton, and Macmillan editions, with the heaviest use in the Atlantic Monthly and lightest in Macmillan. As James was known for using commas sparingly, this first English edition most closely mirrors the author's natural writing style.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

THE CHILDREN OF THE SEA. A Tale of the Forecastle by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: THE CHILDREN OF THE SEA. A Tale of the Forecastle
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1898. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Original pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth. First Edition, second issue -- with the date 1898 (rather than 1897) on the front of the title leaf. (Note: ALL copies without a date on the front of the title leaf are merely reprints.) In late 1897, Dodd Mead had a first edition of 1000 copies printed; because the book was scheduled for publication late in the fall season, the printers were instructed to print both 1897 and 1898 title pages. The number printed with each date is not recorded... It was re-introduced in the spring and listed in Publisher's Weekly on March 12th among the spring publications... Copies of the spring issue were supplied with the 1898 title page. [Cagle] This tale was subsequently published as THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS." Conrad wrote this story with the "Nigger" title, but consented to change the title for the American edition (which preceded the English); the publisher's argument was not that the "Nigger" title might be offensive, but rather that the white American book-buying public would not buy the book if they knew it was about a black man. Nonetheless, the original title was restored for all subsequent editions, making this variant-titled edition one of the more sought-after of Conrad's works. This copy is in close-to-fine condition (spine very slightly darkened, but there is essentially no wear or soil). Cagle A3b(2).

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