Daisy Miller, A Study (Signed copy)

Limited edition, signed by the illustrator Gustave Nebel

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Printing Details

First edition thus. Limited edition, this being number 456 of 1500. Hardback, full red leather in slipcase. Four raised bands and gitl titling and decorations to spine, gilt HJ to upper board. Top edge gilt. 18.5 × 12.5cm, xvi + 92pp.

This copy has been signed to the limitation page by Gustave Nebel.

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition, with a little light wear to the slipcase.