Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1907).
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Hardcover. Second impression. Tall octavo. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with paper spine label. Some rounding of the corners, tears on the edges of the boards, a very good copy. The author's own copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Additionally the book is Inscribed to Noyes by American impressionist artist Charles Vezin: "To Carleton Noyes, a copy marked by Charles Vezin who has found in this book renewed faith in Art and Life. Dec. 1918." Vezin has marked the text of the book - underlining, scoring in the margins, and a few relatively short comments, in pencil.
Also laid in is: 1. Typed unsigned commentary on "emotion" on Vezin's stationary, 2. Typed Letter Signed by Vezin (with envelope dated in 1925) addressed to 15 prize-winners who are to receive marked copies of the book (with an autograph note to Noyes, that he is sending copies to the prize-winners). 3. Three page Autograph Letter Signed by William James ("Wm. James") to Noyes (with envelope) dated in 1908 (folded as mailed with modest tears at the fold) providing praise to the book, suggesting that: "I think you repeat the same thing too often, and the last half of the book, especially, would in my opinion be much improved by being considerably abridged."
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