"A most unholy trade" : being letters on the drama / by Henry James.

Accession number: 
PML 179901
Author: 
James, Henry, 1843-1916, author.
Published: 
[Sterling Junction, Massachusetts] : Scarab Press, MCMXXIII [1923]
Description: 
17 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 16 cm
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes: 

"The four letters here printed for the first time are part of Henry James's informal correspondence with William Heinemann, the publisher ... They concern themselves with James's impressions of Ibsen's 'Little Eyolf' and contain some general remarks on the drama"--Page [5].
"The first book printed by the Scarab Press, one hundred copies are for sale ... The frontispiece [portrait] was engraved on wood by Waldo Murray ... The cover was also designed by Waldo Murrary and also cut by him on linoleum"--Colophon.

Binding: 
Publisher's illustrated cream paper boards.
Provenance: 
Carter Burden.
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