Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition early printing hardcover copy of The Wings of the Dove (Volume 1) by Henry James. First US Edition unstated 1902 Scribner’s. Early Printing with 1918 on title page and Published August 1902 on copyright page. Volume 1 of a 2-volume set.
Very Good hardcover with bright boards with a few spots and a bit of sheen present. Also with, strong gilt on the heavily sunned spine , clean page blocks with a faded gilt on the top, moderate to heavy spine tilt, rolled and lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and bumped and rubbed corners with no bare spots. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with the small, vintage paper label from the Boston bookseller on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket.
Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. Under its brilliant, surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, the novel offers an unfettered vision of our civilization and its discontents. It represents a culmination of James’s art and, as such, of the art of the novel itself.
Volume 1 only. Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
