JAMES, Henry

The Aspern Papers / The Europeans [Review Copy]

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1950. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). First Edition Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. xxi, 362. Introduction by Joseph McG. Bottkol. Beige cloth, title stamped in brown on the spine. Leaves crisp and bright. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($1.50). Jacket a tad rubbed, small stain on back. New Directions Review Copy card laid in, publication dated May 24, 1950. Remarkably well preserved. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #5744

Issue number 27 in the New Classics Series, "$1.50 reprints of important modern works of literature," in this instance two nouvelles with a scholarly introduction by Joseph Bottkol.

With the understated Alvin Lustig jacket illustration and lettering evoking Lissitzky or Kandinsky, yet entirely his own. Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 37. One of the more elusive "New Classics" dust jackets. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

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Price: $175.00