The Ambassadors A Novel

by Henry James

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue-gray boards, t.e.g., and publisher’s protective blue cloth-covered wrapper. Fine. Boxed. BAL 10656; Edel A58b. Item #370115 One of the curiosities of this celebrated novel is that in this first American edition, Chapters XXVIII and XXIX are reversed — an error perpetuated by Scribners’ New York Edition, and a fact not even noticed until 1950.

• Binding: Hardcover

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