Search Results: The Novels and Tales Of Henry James, Volume 4 by Henry James

276 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with red labels to cover and spine with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by Willard R Task. First edition. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1963) Scribner's facsimile reprint of 1909 edition 500pp, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2, black cloth, gilt signature on front cover, blue decorative labels and gilt lettering on spine CONDITION: GOOD, ex-library with the usual markings (withdrawn stamp on top edge, label at spine foot, library stamp & corner clipped on front endpaper, and card pocket remnant on rear endpaper o/w worn but sound condition, spine somewhat slanted, very light damp staining on covers and moderate wear at corners

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1923. Very Good. The stories in this volume did not appear in the New York edition of his works. They are Watch and Ward, longstaffs Marriage, Eugene Pickering, Benvolio and The impressions of a Cousin. Blue boards with gold embossing to front and spine,spine embossing worn, corners slightly bumped,front board inset with owners bookplate AB4

Palala Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: August 1920, Volume CXLI, Number DCCCXLIIISize and Page Count: 6.5 X 10" Tall, approx. 200 pages, includes advertisements and the back cover with statement of Harper's New Monthly MagazineCondition: Good, binding good, front and back covers are loose with small tears and foxing, spine cover with small tears, pages with untrimmed edges are browning on edge, some pages have small watermark stains, pencil markings on front cover and content page, Complete.Illustrations Information: approx. 40 illustrations and many vintage advertisements! ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian----Articles and information:An Old Chester secret: A story in three parts (part I) -By Margaret Wade Campbell DelandPoem: Old trees -By Mary Brent WhitesideMarseilles, the bridgehead of the Levant -By Herbert Adams GibbonsNew nonsense novels: The split in the cabinet, or the fate of England (an English… Read More

Palala Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,coloured flower freized borders/edges on pink background illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges or corners - no nicks or tears present - a few minor indentations to both upper+ rear wraps.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal - contents bright,tight and clean apart from page-edge toning, bright,clean,air-force blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12+18-319pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list,Pts 1-3,an epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp96/7 and pp224/25 respectively and an appendix (four poems for Emily Dickinson). The second volume of Rumer Godden's… Read More

An outstanding Four Volume collection of the unearthly from the pen of a masterHenry James was a notable American author who lived and worked in England for forty years of his life-becoming a nationalised British subject shortly before his death. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of Americans abroad and for the creativity and freedom he displayed within his diverse literary perspectives. His novels remain highly regarded and continually read. Among them are Washington Square, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors and others. In any list of James' notable achievements one title frequently appears first-just as in every list of the most highly regarded supernatural fiction a James work is also certain to appear. That story is, of course, the novella, 'The Turn of the Screw'-a tale of creeping supernatural threat, terror, polluted innocence and inevitable tragedy. It is a deserved classic of supernatural fiction and true to the nature of such things subordinates James's other work in the genre… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A pocket-sized edition of James' historical novel. George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860) was a writer of novels and histories, serving as British Historiographer Royal for King William IV. His most famous work was 'Richelieu: A Tale of France'; 'Darnley' was his third novel, published after 'Richelieu', originally in three volumes. 'Darnley' takes Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1557) as its subject, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.This edition is complete in one.Illustrated with a full plate frontispiece. In a half calf binding. Externally a trifle rubbed, particularly to the spine and raised bands with a little loss to the leather. Internally firmly bound, pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot more prominent to the first pages, a small tear of about an inch to the title page. Very Good

Volume three-of four-of the ghostliest of Henry James' fictionHenry James was a notable American author who lived and worked in England for forty years of his life-becoming a nationalised British subject shortly before his death. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of Americans abroad and for the creativity and freedom he displayed within his diverse literary perspectives. His novels remain highly regarded and continually read. Among them are Washington Square, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors and others. In any list of James' notable achievements one title frequently appears first-just as in every list of the most highly regarded supernatural fiction a James work is also certain to appear. That story is, of course, the novella, 'The Turn of the Screw'-a tale of creeping supernatural threat, terror, polluted innocence and inevitable tragedy. It is a deserved classic of supernatural fiction and true to the nature of such things subordinates James's other work in the genre almost to obscurity.… Read More

London: Strahan and Company, 1869. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $425. NOW $100. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in book form bound in three-quarters brown leather and marbled boards, and with the leather having inner borders decorated with double gilt lines, the spines being lettered and decorated in gilt with the title, author name, volume numbers being on green leather blocks, and the top edge of each volume's close page block in gilt as well. The leather shows some modest rubbing at the edges and Volume I is bound without a half-title. The work is illustrated with sixty-four (64) illustrations by Marcus Stone (thirty-two being full plates printed separately and thirty-two being vignettes printed with the text and incorporating the initial letters to the thirty-two chapters they head. [In Volume I, the List of Illustrations calls for the Plate titled "The Full Mood at St. Diddulphs" at page 256 but it is… Read More

Tan leather binding with gilt edging on both boards. Brown title plate with raised banding and gilt lettering and emblems on the spine A very clean edition of a significant work
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) is a narrative poem in six cantos with copious antiquarian notes by Walter Scott. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, it is represented within the work as being sung by a minstrel late in the 1600s. "The Poem, now offered to the Public, is intended to illustrate the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the Borders of England and Scotland. ...As the description of scenery and manners was more the object of the Author than a combined and regular narrative, the plan of the Ancient Metrical Romance was adopted, which allows greater latitude, in this respect, than would be consistent with the dignity of a regular Poem. ...For these reasons, the Poem was put into the mouth of an ancient Minstrel, the last of the race, who, as he is supposed to have survived the… Read More

Tan Leather binding with green title plate, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Brown marbled boards. part of a set.
A great copy. Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the period of Swiss involvement in the Burgundian Wars, the main action ending with the Burgundian defeat at the Battle of Nancy at the beginning of 1477. In May 1823, when Scott had just finished Quentin Durward, he expressed his intention to 'try in a continuation' the deaths of Charles of Burgundy & Louis XI. Five years later he began Anne of Geierstein, which ends with Charles's death at the battle of Nancy and Louis in the background picking up the territorial spoils. The novel was written between September 1828 and April 1829. Scott was able to draw on his historical sources for Quentin Durward, notably the Mémoires of Philippe… Read More

Tan Leather binding with green title plate, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Brown marbled boards. Part of a set.
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer is the second of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural but changed his mind soon after starting. The book was a huge success, the first edition selling out on the first day of publication. Scott began the composition of Guy Mannering in the last days of 1814, immediately after completing his last long narrative poem The Lord of the Isles. Writing with remarkable speed, he finished it by mid-February 1815. Guy Mannering appeared in three volumes in Edinburgh, published by Archibald Constable and Co. The print run was 2000, and the selling price one guinea (£1.05). The London publishers were Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, who had to wait some days before receiving their consignment of 1500… Read More

Tan Leather binding with green title plate, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Brown marbled boards. Part of a set.
Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. Scott began composing Woodstock at the very end of October 1825. He appears to have made rapid progress at first, but there were many interruptions during December and the second volume was not finished until 11 February 1826. He completed the final volume on 26 March. The History of England by David Hume (1754‒62), which Scott admired above all others, gave… Read More

High Quality leather binding. Gilt entwined edging on both boards. Front board has a gilt Oxford Local Examinations emblem. Red title plate with gilt lettering and ornate decoration on the spine.
Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. At the time it was written, the novel represented a shift by Scott away from writing novels set in Scotland in the fairly recent past to a more fanciful depiction of England in the Middle Ages. Ivanhoe proved to be one of the best-known and most influential of Scott's novels. Set in 12th-century England, with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Ivanhoe is credited for increased interest in chivalric romance and medievalism. John Henry Newman claimed that Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the Middle Ages", while Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin likewise asserted Scott's great influence upon the… Read More

Full tan calf. Red and green title plates with gilt lettering and floral decoration on the spine.
An excellent cherished set pertaining from the family of a very good man These books deserve to be read Christopher North was the penname of John Wilson, Scottish essayist, poet, fiction writer and editor.
John Wilson of Elleray FRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1820–1851. Wilson was born in Paisley, the son of John Wilson, a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died in 1796, when John was 11 years old, and his wife Margaret Sym (1753–1825). He was their fourth child, and the eldest son, having nine sisters and brothers. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and entered the University of Glasgow aged 12 (14 being the usual age at that time), and continued to attend… Read More

Tan leather half binding with blue and white marbled paper boards. Raised banding with gilt title on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A very clean and readable edition of Gil Blas Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was translated into English by Tobias Smollett. Gil Blas is born in misery to a stable hand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. He becomes a valet and, over the course of several years, is able to observe many different classes of society, both lay and clerical. Because of his occupation, he meets many disreputable people and is able to adjust to many situations, thanks to his adaptability and quick wit. He finally finds himself at the royal court as a favourite of the king and secretary to the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Henry James (1843-1916) wrote this most intriguing of the late novels just prior to "The Wings of the Dove" and "The Ambassadors." This tale of sexual energy baffled many of the earlier critics, but now receives more serious scrutiny. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition, which precedes the English version. Not common. Smooth tan cloth binding, ruled and lettered in gilt. Clean text; 319 pages. There is a bookplate on the front paste-down and a signature/stamp opposite the Title Page, else a Fine copy. There is no dustjacket; rather, this copy is protected by a custom slipcase with a leather spine; ruled, with four raised bands, all filled with gilt. The open side of the slipcase and the head and foot of the spine have some rubbing; still, an attractive item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.