Port Tarascon: the Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.
Price: $80.00
Hardcover. First edition, preceding the French edition. Translated by Henry James, his only translation. Small, neat, and contemporary owner stamp on the front fly else fine in boards. A handsome copy.
Item #57397
Henry James
birth name: Henry James
born: 4/15/1843
died: 2/28/1916
Biography
American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in conflict with the corruption and wisdom of the Old. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore