The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
by James, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 3829008937
- ISBN 13
- 9783829008938
- Seller
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About This Item
Konemann, Cologne, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: 12mo (small). 407 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. An unscrupulous critic, determined to get his hands on the private papers of a great poet, finds himself duelling with the grim old lady who was once the poet's mistress and muse. Aspern's lost world of beauty and romance still seems to hang in the glamorous air of Venice, but the price of admission turns out to involve another party, the old woman's unmagical niece. What exactly is Aspern's admirer prepared to pay? In the other stories collected here - 'The Private Life', 'The Middle Years', and 'The Death of the Lion' - the elusive figure of the writer again arouses passions of pursuit and dispute among rival admirers and patrons. Dead, dying, or spectral, he becomes the prey of ruthless journalists, rapacious hostesses, and zealous disciples. James never wrote more pointedly about the pleasures and pains of the writer, or more wittily about the public that seeks to profit from him, in its comfortable awareness of the things that can be done with writing, apart from reading it. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Britain/UK; ISBN: 3829008937. ISBN/EAN: 9783829008938. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10546. . 9783829008938
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10546
- Title
- The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 3829008937
- ISBN 13
- 9783829008938
- Publisher
- Konemann
- Place of Publication
- Cologne
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB137 henry james, short fiction, Fiction; Short Stories; Britain/UK; Unbranded ISBN: 3829008937 EAN: 9783829008938 James, Henry The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
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