Accession number
PML 137461
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Published
Paris : Black Sun Press, 1928.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"Éditions Narcisse."
"This first edition ... printed at the Black Sun Press (Maître-Imprimeur Lescaret) ... for Harry and Caresse Crosby ... strictly limited to 16 copies on Japan Paper, each copy supplemented by one of the original letters, and 100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the Bookshop of Harry Marks, New York"--Colophon.
Library's copy is one of 16 copies on Japan paper, accompanied by an original letter from Henry James to Walter Berry, being letter no. 1 of the 16 letters included in the volume.
Title page in red and black; each letter has James letterhead in red.
With a facsimile of a letter from James following t.p.
With autograph letter signed from Henry James, Baltimore, to Walter Berry, dated 1905 June 11, 2 p., with envelope, ca. 175 words about plans for his departure from Boston; both items bound in.
"This first edition ... printed at the Black Sun Press (Maître-Imprimeur Lescaret) ... for Harry and Caresse Crosby ... strictly limited to 16 copies on Japan Paper, each copy supplemented by one of the original letters, and 100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the Bookshop of Harry Marks, New York"--Colophon.
Library's copy is one of 16 copies on Japan paper, accompanied by an original letter from Henry James to Walter Berry, being letter no. 1 of the 16 letters included in the volume.
Title page in red and black; each letter has James letterhead in red.
With a facsimile of a letter from James following t.p.
With autograph letter signed from Henry James, Baltimore, to Walter Berry, dated 1905 June 11, 2 p., with envelope, ca. 175 words about plans for his departure from Boston; both items bound in.
Description
[64] p. : facsim. ; 28 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Cream wrappers in a stiff gold card portfolio with red ribbon ties.
Classification
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