JAMES, Henry.
Italian Hours.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1909.
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"the luxury of loving Italy": First Edition of Henry James' Italian Hours
First edition of this book of travel writing, wonderfully illustrated by Joseph Pennell. Quarto, original cloth, gilt pictorial stamped to the front panel, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell with color plates, with tissue guards. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
In these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself. James's enthusiastic appreciation of the unparalleled aesthetic allure of Venice, the vitality of Rome, and the noisy, sensuous appeal of Naples is everywhere marked by pervasive regret for the disappearance of the past and by ambivalence concerning the transformation of nineteenth-century Europe.
Italian Hours.
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