New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 696pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Just a book club edition of this massive tome, but with a twist: Front flyleaf bears a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate bearing the full bold signature in turquoise fineline of famed Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson biographer Gay Wilson Allen (1903-95), who wrote a biography of William James that Lewis notes in his acknowledgments as "after nearly thirty-five years, by far the chief source of knowledge about his subject's career.

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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 38361
Title: The Jameses: A Family Narrative
Author: LEWIS, R.W.B
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0374178615
ISBN 13: 9780374178611
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
Bookseller catalogs: Books; Literary Biography;

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.

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About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.

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Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...