Impressions by Loti, Pierre 1850-1923

Archibald Constable, 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering, velum spine. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Front endpaper has been removed. Hinges are cracked, with some exposed netting and a loose binding. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed and spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, New York: Brentano's, 1900. Hardcover. VG- (Some wear to cloth and vellum). Green cloth over boards; White vellum at spine; 189 pp.; Illustrated title page and text decorations, but no other illustrations. Introduction by Henry James.

New York: Brentano's. Very Good+. 1900. First US Edition. Hardcover. Vellum spine, green decorated boards; introduction by Henry James; light soil on corners, endpapers lightly foxed, nice firm attractive copy .

London: Archibald Constable and Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition (Second binding). Hardcover. Clean dark green cloth covered boards, head/tail of spine chipped, corners bumped. clear titling/decs to front cover. Rough cut pages. Offsetting to endpapers. NO INSCRIPTIONS. 187pp. Illuminated title letters. Brightly illustrated title page with red flowers. Intro by Henry James. Includes; The Passing of A Child; Easter Holidays; At Loyola; The Mayor of the Sea; Midnight Mass; The Passing of the Procession; The Sword Dance; Cathedral Impressions; The Passing of the Sultan; The Moth; Profanation; For Those at Sea; Carmencita; The Opposite Wall; The Old Missionary of Annam; Three Days War in Annam; On Land: In the Camp of the Sailors of The Atalante. Night of August 20th. Loti joined the navy at a young age, travelled extensively and wrote over forty books inspired by memories of places he had visited. In the introduction Henry James says that : "What touches deepest… Read More

Westminster: Constable, 1898. First Edition. hardcover. very good(+). With an Introduction by Henry James. Woodcut illustrated title page in red & black; woodcut initials. 8to, parchment backed cloth, (spine mottled) stamped in gilt & green. Westminster: Constable, 1898. First Edition.<br/> <br/>

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1898. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 189 pp. With a 21-page introduction by Henry James. Largely uncut, some darkening to spine, corners bumped, else a very good copy. Tissue guard for title-page is still intact.

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1898. First edition of Pierre Loti's Impressions. Octavo, original green pictorial buckram, woodcut pictorial title page, woodcut initials. In near fine condition. James writes of Loti in his introduction to the present volume, "I may as well admit in the outset that in speaking of Pierre Loti I give way to an inclination of the irresistible sort, express indeed a lively obligation. I am conscious of owing him that amount and that kind of pleasure as to which hesitation resides only in the difficulty of statement. He has been for me, from the hour of my making his acquaintance, one of the joys of the time, and the fact moreover of his being of the time has often, to my eyes, made it seem to suffer less from the presence of writers less delightful yet more acclaimed.