The Question of our Speech/The Lesson of Balzac (2 lectures 1 binding) de Henry James

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1905. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, limited to 300 uncut copies. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 115, (1) pp. White cloth and blue paper boards with paper title label on the spine. The white cloth spine has some soiling. Last two pages contain neat, light, penciled notes (of interest to a bibliophile).

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Blue buckram with gilt-stamped title on front and spine. Spine sunned and cocked slightly, very good in an unusual unprinted dustwrapper with window cut out of spine to show title.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Bookplate and some ownership signatures, modest rubbing, else near fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt text on spine and front board. Gilt top edge. Hand-pressed paper. 116 pp. Minor edge wear. Fore edge roughly cut in some places. This is a first printing from a limited run of 2000 copies collecting two literary lectures by James. (Edel and Laurence A61a, binding C).

New York: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. First Edition. 116 pages, Limited 1/300 copies, gray boards with a paper label to the spine. Some light discoloration to the spine, previous owner bookplate, Near Very Good. .

1 . hardback. Fine. Two Lectures. 12mo. 1st ed. Boston (Hougbton Mifflin) 1905. Dark blue cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Three small newspaper clippings pasted to one of the first blanks, with resulting offset, and previous owner's name on 1/2-title, else a fine and bright copy.

Two lectures by Henry James. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905. 1st edition. 1 of 300 copies. [Edel & Laurence, A61.b.) From the personal library of Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, etc. Auction house provenance slip laid in from a sale on behalf of the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia. Sendak (1928-2012) was an avid book collector whose sizable library included many items by and about Henry James. 116 pp., with untrimmed edges. Small 8vo hardcover. 7.75 x 4.75 inches. Cloth spine with paper label and gray paper-covered boards. Light wear but about Near Fine overall. Pencil notations and small catalog label in rear of book. New, clear archival jacket. A very nice copy with notable provenance.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Contents are comprised of two long pieces: "The Question of Our Speech," an address to the graduating class of Bryn Mawr College on June 8, 1905 (it first appeared in the August, 1905 issue Appleton's Booklovers Magazine), and "The Lesson of Balzac," first published in the Atlantic Monthly (August, 1905). Edel & Laurence A61b; BAL 10660. Limited Issue, one of 300 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); greyish-green paper-covered boards and pale yellow cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; original dustjacket with yapped edges; [vi],[2],3-115,[3]pp. A fresh, Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket, gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled, with shallow losses to spine ends and corners, a deeper chip to upper rear panel, with several tiny tears and attendant creases.