Buy this book on-line HENRY JAMES : The Painter's Eye. Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts. Selected, edited and with an introduction by John L.SweeneyRupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956
First Edition (first printing). Large crown 8vo. 274pp. Russet-coloured linen-grain cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's red top edge stain. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some tanning to the spine panel and a single small area of loss from the head of the front panel. A twenty-three page introduction precedes thirty of James' critical essays on art and artists, which were originally contributed to American newspapers and magazines, with only five of them previously reprinted. 4,000 copies were printed (1,500 of those reserved for the US edition which appeared a month later). Edel & Laurence A100.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY JAMES : The Painter's Eye. Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts. Selected, edited and with an introduction by John L.Sweeney. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, atlases, first editions, libri rari and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |