Books

London: MacMillan, 1886. first. hardcover. very good. First UK edition, London, 1886. Recased with original cloth laid-on. In very good condition, some wear to covers, each volume has a bookplate attached to front paste-downs by former owner and name of former owner to half-title pages, cracking to gutters, minor foxing. Housed in a leather-covered box with lid.

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. The novel is a bittersweet tragicomedy centered on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The story concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and the effect that struggle has on all of their lives.

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886.