A rare first edition novel The Bostonians by Henry James. Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1886. Hardcover, original red and salmon colored cloth, gold lettering on the spin. Henry James, 1843 to 1916, was an American-born British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. Rare And Antiquarian Books, Library Specimen For Collectors, Future Incunabula Printed Edition.