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London: John Brooks, 1831. Two volumes in one. 16mo Hardcover. (2)+392pp+(2). Poor Ex-Library book. Brown boards. Heavy edgewear. Crown chipped away. Front board and preliminary pages detached, but present. Spine sunned. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled. Penciled notations and underlining to a few pages throughout. With usual library markings such as call number, rear pocket, front bookplate, and notations. In polypropylene bag. (US history, politics) Inquire if you need further information.

The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the misadventures of its eponymous hero, Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather unsophisticated American businessman who is confronted with the Machiavellian world of Parisian society and its complex codes of honour.