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First edition of Henry James's moving tale of a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Ownership signature of J.H. Russell, partly obscured by bookplate of Marie Russell. From the library of novelist Louis Auchincloss, with his morocco-gilt bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. A handsome first edition of an American classic, from one New York social diarist to another.
First edition of Henry James's moving tale of a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Ownership signature of J.H. Russell, partly obscured by bookplate of Marie Russell. From the library of novelist Louis Auchincloss, with his morocco-gilt bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. A handsome first edition of an American classic, from one New York social diarist to another.
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