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  First edition of Henry James' Italian Hours; inscribed by him to Edmund and Ellen Gosse and later from the library of famed children's book author Maurice Sendak

  JAMES, Henry.

  Italian Hours.

  London: William Heinemann, 1909.

  First edition, one of 1000 copies printed of James' classic book of travel writing, wonderfully illustrated by Joseph Pennell. Quarto, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell with 32 tissue-guarded color plates. Association copy, inscribed by Henry James on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Edmund and Nelly Gosse their all, faithful old friend Henry James December 4th 1909." The recipients, English poet, author, and critic Edmund Gosse and his wife, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ellen Gosse were two of James' closest and longest-standing friends. James and Edmund exchanged more than 400 letters over the course of several decades and Gosse was a well-known literary figure in his own right, best known for his English translations Ibsen and the role he played in encouraging the careers of Yeats and Joyce. With Gosses's bookplate to the pastedown, as well as that of Maurice Sendak who later acquired the book. Best known for his immensely popular illustrated children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak’s career was launched in 1952 with the publication of Ruth Krauss’s A Hole Is to Dig. Their author-illustrator collaboration, facilitated by Harper & Row publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books Ursula Nordstro...

  Price: $12,000.00     Item Number: 135623

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