"A most unholy trade" : being letters on the drama / by Henry James.

Accession number: 
PML 137460
Author: 
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Published: 
[Cambridge, Mass.] : Scarab Press, 1923.
Description: 
17, [18], [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 16 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes: 

"The four letters here printed for the first time are part of Henry James's informal correspondence with William Heinemann, the publisher ... They concern themselves with James's impressions of Ibsen's 'Little Eyolf' and contain some general remarks on the drama"--Note.
"Of this, the first book printed by the Scarab Press, one hundred copies are for sale at Dunster House ... The frontispiece was engraved on wood by Waldo Murray"--Colophon.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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