(JAMES, HENRY.) James, William; editor. The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James.

(JAMES, HENRY.) James, William; editor. The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, spine faded, top joints cracked with (loosely repaired) separation of section of backstrip; hinges cracked; contemporary obituary of Henry James tipped to front endpaper. Boston, 1885

scarce first edition. inscribed and signed by james to grace norton "with affectionate regards, William James." Grace was Charles Eliot Norton's youngest sister; she lived most of her life with her brother, helping to raise his children, but in the early twentieth century she published several studies of Montaigne. She and Henry James maintained a lengthy and intimate correspondence from 1868 to the end of his life; none of her letters to him survive, though several of his letters to her have been published. James edited this collection of writings of his famous essayist and philosopher father three years after Henry died.