Daisy Miller

Cambridge: Printed at the University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Nebel, Gustave. No. 351 of 1500, duodecimo size, 112 pp. signed by Gustave Nebel, with prospectus and announcement. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who wrote in the genre of both literary realism and modernism and is best known for his novels "Portrait of a Lady" and "The Ambassadors"; his works examine the often inscrutable relationships between characters. "Daisy Miller" is a novella that deals with both the interior motives of the characters' psyches and the outward traditions and prejudices encountered in society.

This publication by The Limited Editions Club contains illustrations by French artist Gustave Nebel (1904-1988), whose watercolours are elegantly reproduced throughout the volume.

___DESCRIPTION: Full red leather, gilt initials on the front board, four raised bands on the spine, gilt ruled borders, lettering, and ornaments on the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers in red, green, and yellow, frontispiece a watercolour by Gustave Nebel, title page in yellow-green and black with yellow-green decorative border, watercolours by Nebel throughout; monotype Joanna type, Hale's cream-white antique paper, duodecimo size (7.25" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [xvii-xviii] 1-92 [93] [1 colophon], one of 1500 copies, this number 351, signed by Gustave Nebel on the colophon. Loosely laid in is an announcement for the book, one sheet, and the prospectus, one sheet folded once. In a slipcase covered in maroon-coloured smooth material.

___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, as new. The announcement and prospectus are near fine, clean overall with some soiling to the creases, the announcement with a horizontal crease, the prospectus with both a horizontal and vertical crease, else fine. The slipcase is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean overall with minor soiling, and some rubbing to the corners and to the edges of the opening.

___CITATION: LEC no. 421.

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