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First Edition. Three volumes, pp. [iv], 252; [iv], 257, [2, ads]; [iv], 242, [2, ads], 8vo, modern binding of full dark-green morocco, single fillet border to boards, the backstrip with lettering and decorations in gilt between five raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Published by Macmillan (London and New York), 1886. A near fine set. An important work of his middle-period, the first of his novels 'with no major American characters' (ODNB); it had originally been serialised in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885-6. (Edel A29a) Pleasec contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.

The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. The novel is a story about London bookbinder Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book combines themes of political activism and social reform with James's characteristic psychological insight.