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49. Hemingway, Ernest. THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY. THE FINCA VIGIA EDITION. Foreword by John, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway. Preface by Charles Scribner, Jr. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987. An uncorrected proof copy that is very good in printed tan wrappers. This collection includes seven pieces of short fiction by Hemingway that are published here for the first time: A Train Trip, The Porter, Black Ass at the Cross Roads, Landscape with Figures, I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something, Great News from the Mainland, and The Strange Country. $125.00 50. Hémon, Louis. MARIA CHAPDELAINE A TALE OF THE LAKE ST. JOHN COUNTRY. Translated by W. H. Blake. With an Introduction by Hugh Eayrs. New York: The Modern Library, 1934. A charming copy of the Modern Library first edition in the correct dust jacket with “225” on the rear jacket panel. The book has bright gilt lettering and design on the spine and front panel. There is a brief ownership inscription on the half-title but the text is otherwise free of markings. At the last page of text, a oneinch printed slip is tipped-in, stating: “This book has been printed from the plates of the Modern Readers’ Series.” The attractive dust jacket has very shallow chipping along the top edge of the rear panel and wear at some of the corners. $65.00 Henry James’s first published extended work of fiction 51. James, Henry. POOR RICHARD. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, June No. 116, July No. 117, and August No. 118, 1867. Very good, with minimal spine loss at some of the extremities, light shelf wear and some light foxing, each firmly bound in the original printed wrappers. These three successive issues of The Atlantic Monthly serialize Henry James’ story, Poor Richard, his first published extended work of fiction and the earliest of his published stories that he would see reprinted and preserved in book form in his lifetime. Leon Edel treats the writing of Poor Richard extensively in Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870, the first volume of his definitive biography. The story centers on three young men in their mid-twenties who compete for the attentions of Miss Gertrude Whittaker, the wealthy young heroine, during a summer vacation in rural New England. Two of them had served as officers in the Civil War but the third, Richard Clare, had avoided the army and instead remained in school. Richard soon becomes aware of his worldly inadequacies in relation to the officers, “as he gulped down the sickening fact of his comparative, nay, his absolute ignorance of the great world represented by his rivals, he felt like anticipating its consequences by a desperate sally into the very field of their
conversation.” Along with much of James’ early fiction, Poor Richard is autobiographical and Edel associates Gertrude Whittaker with Minny Temple, a distant cousin of Henry James to whom James later “consecrated the most moving of his chapters of memory” in Notes of a Son and Brother (1914.) In the summer of 1865 James, along with his good friend Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Holmes’ friend, Judge Advocate John Chipman Gray, Jr., had visited North Conway in the White Mountains where the four Temple sisters were also staying and each courted Minny. Edel further identifies Minny Temple with Isabel Archer, who also had three lovers in The Portrait of a Lady and finally, with Milly Theale in James’ late masterpiece, The Wings of the Dove, thus making it clear that the events of 1865 in North Conway led James into a continuing fictional theme from this first extended story through his two major novels. James later included Poor Richard, in revised form, in his three-volume collection, Stories Revived (1885.) Although single copies of The Atlantic Monthly from this period can occasionally be found, these form a uniform set, all having the same small subscriber’s slip pasted to the front wrapper, and make up an important Jamesian artifact. [Edel & Laurence D37] $400.00 The affordable Macmillan ‘triple decker’ Portrait 52. James, Henry. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY. London: Macmillan, 1883. Three volumes. Near fine in royal blue cloth with bright gilt front panel borders and spine lettering on all three volumes. The texts are crisp and unmarked, except for the ownership signature of Maud A. Marsland on the flyleaf of each volume, and without foxing. This ‘triple decker’ edition of The Portrait of a Lady was issued as the first part of Macmillan’s “Collective Edition of 1883.” It is slightly smaller in size (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 ) than the first Macmillan ‘triple decker’ edition (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 ) which was issued just two years earlier. The “Collective Edition” was issued in a printing of 5,000 copies, both bound in wrappers, and in cloth, as here. Additionally, some of the cloth copies were also issued in a secondary binding in varying colors (salmon, ochre, cream, green, etc.) with lettering and rules in brown. Edel & Laurence do not give the number of copies (of the 5,000) that were issued in royal blue cloth. The 1881 first edition was printed in just 750 copies, followed by an additional 250 copies of a second issue, dated 1882 on the title page. Since the American editions were all issued in the single volume format, these volumes of the “Collective Edition” have become the most readily attainable edition resembling the original, and are now quite difficult to find in such nice condition. [Edel & Laurence A20] $475.00 53. James, Henry. THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MOTOR-AMBULANCE CORPS IN FRANCE. A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914. Very good in stapled blue-grey printed wrappers, with some chipping at the corners and along the spine. A 12-page ‘letter’ that later appeared in abbreviated and edited form in the New York World under James’s by-line in January, 1915, and was reprinted in full, posthumously, in Within the Rim and Other Essays 1914- 15 in 1919. Although listed by Edel & Laurence as their second item part C, “Published Letters,” it reads as if James, too, considered it more to be an original essay, as illustrated by the following sentences on p. 10: “I have doubtless said enough, however, in illustration of the interest attaching to this service, a service in which not one of the forces of social energy and devotion, not one of the true social qualities, sympathy, ingenuity, tact and taste, fail to come into play. Such an exercise of them, as all the incidental possibilities are taken advantage of, represents for us all, who are happily not
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