Notes of a Son and Brother
by James, Henry
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. brown cloth, gilt lettering, gilt top edge, 515 pp, first edition, soiling and fading to covers, owner's inscription on free endpaper.
Synopsis
Notes of a Son and Brother is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64306
- Title
- Notes of a Son and Brother
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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