TheSense of the Past.
JAMES, (Henry).
Frontispiece photograph portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn. First edition. 8vo., a very good copy in original dark blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, slight "nibbling" to top edge of lower cover, all over a trifle soiled, fore and bottom edges uncut. London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1917
Percy Lubbock writes in the preface: "'The Sense of the Past', the second of the two novels which Henry James left unfinished, had been planned and begun some years before he died. The two first books and a part of the third had been written, and it appears that the idea had been abandoned for accidental reasons, not because he was himself dissatisfied with it ...
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