{"product_id":"to-2026-086","title":"Gabrielle de Bergerac","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJAMES, Henry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabrielle de Bergerac.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall octavo. 153 pp. Cream cloth spine over green paper-covered boards with dark green lettering and decoration, in the original printed publisher's dust jacket. Slight darkening to the spine, else fine in a fine dust jacket. BAL 10701.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Henry James's earliest tales, gathered into book form only after his death. James wrote \u003cem\u003eGabrielle de Bergerac\u003c\/em\u003e at twenty-six; it ran serially across three 1869 issues of the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (July–September) and was never collected during his lifetime. The story is one of the very few James set before his own century: pre-Revolutionary France around the 1750s, an aristocratic young woman and her brother's tutor, a love divided by class, and the shadow of the Terror to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition carries a further point of bibliographical interest: it was issued as the first volume of Boni and Liveright's \"Penguin Series,\" and the jacket flap presents it as such — a short-lived American imprint unrelated to, and predating by nearly two decades, Allen Lane's British Penguin Books of 1935. Original printed jackets on trade fiction of this period are uncommon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-104\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459953381537,"sku":"TO-2026-086","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-086_01.jpg?v=1783744600","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-086","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}