Posted by Joffre on 23/9/2009, 13:11:32, in reply to "Re: All the information required on the book cover"
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: If you remember Henry James' The Ambassadors, there
: were a few references to "the yellow." They
: were talking about these books. The hero liked buying
: NRF books. Although, I don't think they are
: "yellow," they are more beige.
Are you sure about this? Is there a note in your edition? I interpretted this differently. I didn't know anything about NRF. The most famous yellow book in fiction is surely the one from The Picture of Dorian Gray. I imagine you know that book is presumed to be Huysman's A rebours. I do not think Strether was necessarily carrying A rebours, but from wikipedia, "such books in Paris were wrapped in yellow paper to alert the reader to their lascivious content." Just a bit later, there was a quarterly review called The Yellow Book. It was associated with aestheticism. Aubrey Beardsley was it's first art editor.
