The American.
London: Macmillan and Co. / Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1879. Second British Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2328562
Second British edition, one of 1250 copies, preceded by Boston and Leipzig editions, and an 1877 London edition by Ward, Lock & Co. (Phillips p. 8; Edel & Laurence A4c). 2 inch split in cloth on top of rear joint, a few minor wrinkles and abrasions to boards, ink name on half-title page.
350, [2], 38, [2] pp. A novel by the author of The Portrait of a Lady, etc., now considered a pioneer in the Modern Movement of literature. Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.
Price: $125.00