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Ex-Library With All The Library Markings, Pocket, Bar Code, Stickers On Spine, Etc. No Other Markings On Book. This Is A First Edition With Authors Signature On The Front First Page. A Scarce Book To Find Signed, This Is To Henrietta "Etta" Reubell, Described By Wharton In Her Autobiography, A Backward Glance, As "My Old Friend, And Henry James's" (Chapter 11). Reubell Had A Salon At Her Home Where Cosmopolitan Expatriate Writers And Artists Would Visit Including James Mcneill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, And John Singer Sargent, Who Painted Her Portrait. In An 1876 Letter From Paris To His Brother, William James, Henry Describes Several Women, Including Reubell: "The Other Is A Certain Miss Reubell, Who Has Lived Here Always, Is Twenty-Seven Or Twenty-Eight Years Old And Extremely Ugly, But With Something Very Frank, Intelligent And Agreeable About Her. If I Wanted To Desire To Marry An Ugly Parisian-American, With Money And Toutes Les Elegances, And A Very Considerable Capacity For Development If Transported Into A Favoring Medium, Miss R Would Be A Very Good Objective" (Edel, Leon: Henry James Letters, Volume Ii, Pp. 41-42). Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000181
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Custom Of The Country
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1914
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)
Auflage: 1st Edition
