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	1	(James, Henry). Gordon, Lyndall A PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY JAMES: Two Women and His Art New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, (1999). 0393047113 / 9780393047110 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine in a dust jacket that has been neatly price-clipped by the publisher. Illustrated with photographs reproduced on coated stock. Exploration of the influence on James of "two independent, fiercely intelligent women": Minny Temple and Constance Fenimore Woolson. "Imaginative, risky...a magnificent, important book."--Literary Review. Notes, bibliography, index. Price: 20.00 USD
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	2	James, Henry, Jr. CONFIDENCE Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good only: light soiling, wear, mild spine slant, faint staining to covers, a bit shaken; with numeral in white ink to spine, and Meriden Center Lodge bookplate to pastedown; no dust jacket. James's fifth novel, substantially revised from its first appearance serially in Scribner's Monthly (from August 1879 through January 1880), and with crucial differences from the first U.K. edition issued by Chatto & Windus in 1879. Price: 125.00 USD
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	3	(James, Henry). Fogel, Daniel Mark DAISY MILLER: A Dark Comedy of Manners Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1990). 0805779752 / 9780805779752 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very fine in an illustrated dust jacket, with jacket art a detail of "A Friendly Call" by William Merritt Chase. Notes, bibliography, index. A literary analysis of Henry James' 1878 novel about Daisy Miller and her travels through Europe. Mr Fogel discusses the text in terms of James' use of paradox, descriptions of social conventions, and the failure of communication. Price: 25.00 USD
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	4	(James, Henry). Boren, Lynda S. EURYDICE RECLAIMED: Language, Gender, and Voice in Henry James Ann Arbor/London: UMI Research Press, (1989). 0835720268 / 9780835720267 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket. "Traces James's evolution away from conventional narrative into a mode that draws its strength from the human voice, and is, in essence, operatic." Notes, bibliography, index. 145 pages. Price: 25.00 USD
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	5	(James, Henry; James, William; James, Alice). Lewis, R.W.B. THE JAMESES: A FAMILY NARRATIVE New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1991). 0374178615 / 9780374178611 Book club edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a mildly age-toned photo-pictorial dust jacket. Traces the origins, development, and flowering of perhaps the most outstanding intellectual family America has ever produced. Crown octavo. 675 pages, plus index. 32 pages of illustrations. Price: 17.50 USD
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	6	(James, Henry). Heller, Terry THE TURN OF THE SCREW: Bewildered Vision Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1989). 0805780807 / 9780805780802 First edition. Twayne's Masterwork Studies #26. Hardcover. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket with detail of ''Mother and Mary'' by Edmund Charles Tarbell. In-depth critical analysis of James's most celebrated supernatural tale--oft filmed and staged, and oftener probed for its "insoluble ambiguity." James chronology, references, bibliography. Illustrated. Price: 20.00 USD
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	7	(James, Henry). Bell, Ian F.A. WASHINGTON SQUARE: Styles of Money New York: Twayne Publishers, (1993). 0805783598 / 9780805783599 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very fine in an illustrated dust jacket, with jacket art a detail of ''Washington Square, New York'' by Paul Cornoyer. Chronology of James's life and works, notes and references, bibliography, index.` An analysis of James's 1880 novel about Catherine Sloper and the struggle between her father and her lover. Bell compares the fictional story that centers on the role of money, with the economic changes in America at the time of the writing. Price: 20.00 USD
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