What Maisie knew / by Henry James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Contributor:

H.S. Stone & Co., Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of divorced parents--Fiction.

Remarried people--Fiction.

Governesses--Fiction.

Girls--Fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Old Style types (Type evidence)

Laid papers (Paper)

Watermarks (Paper)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1897.

Physical Description:

470 p. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; New York : H.S. Stone & Co., 1897.

Summary:

An innocent young girl who is caught between her divorced parents attempts to understand life and its injustices.

Notes:

Originally appeared simultaneously in the Chap-book, January 15 to August 1, and in the New review, February to July, 1897.

"Printed by University Press, Cambridge, in Modernized Old Style type on laid paper with watermark "Stone & Kimball | New York"--Kramer.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: "Bound in dark grey cloth; stamped on sides with rule border in blind, lettering and florets in gold; on spine with rules, lettering and strapwork ornament in gold (Fig. 31)--Kramer.

Athenaeum copy: T.p. stamped: "Received Nov 8 1897 The Athenaeum"

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2936

BAL, 10627

Kramer, S. History of Stone & Kimball, 138