We introduce the concepts of Pełczyński's property ( ) of order and Pełczyński's property ( * ) of order . It is proved that, for each 1 < < ∞, the James -spaces enjoys Pełczyński's property ( * ) of order and the James * -spaces * (where * denotes the conjugate number of ) enjoys Pełczyński's property ( ) of order . We prove that both 1 ( ) ( a finite positive measure) and 1 enjoy a quantitative version of Pełczyński's property ( * ).
K E Y W O R D SPełczyński's property ( ) of order , Pełczyński's property ( * ) of order , quantitative Pełczyński's property ( * ) of order M S C ( 2 0 1 0 ) 46-B