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JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
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JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. 

8vo. Original decorated brown cloth (upper hinge starting, some staining, slight bubbling to cloth lower board). Provenance: Julia D. Minzesheimer (signature on front blank leaf); Miss magdeline (signature rear flyleaf); Louise Northam (signature rear flyleaf); sold Brentano's with their ticket.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of James' novel, which has been adapted several times for stage and film. The Portrait of a Lady, first published serially in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881, received immediate critical acclaim. 

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