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

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on front cover, blue decorative labels and gilt lettering on spine CONDITION: GOOD, ex-library with the usual markings (withdrawn stamp on top edge, label at spine foot, library stamp & corner clipped on front endpaper, and card pocket remnant on rear endpaper o/w worn but sound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

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

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

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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

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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

3 volumes. ix+336 pages; 309 pages; 341 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in full leather with black labels in gilt lettering to spine and blindstamped coat of arms to covers with gilt edge rule. Marbled page ends. (BAL 3838) First English edition. James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, the eleventh of twelve children. When he was one year old, he moved with parents William and Elizabeth to Cooperstown on Ostego Lake in central New York. During Cooper's boyhood, there were few backwoods settlers left and even fewer Indians. However, Cooper's early experiences in this frontier town gave him the background knowledge used in the Pioneers (1923). After boarding school in Albany, Cooper attended Yale College from 1803 - 1805 but was expelled. Apparently his expulsion stemmed from a dangerous prank that involved him blowing up another student's door. There Cooper acquired his lifelong distaste for New Englanders. In 1806, he became a sailor and then a… Read More

2 volumes. i-[x]-251 pages; 234+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with black label to spine in gilt lettering. (BAL: 3844) First American edition. Published in London first in the same year.Cooper was one of the most popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world. While on his death bed, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert wanted most to read more of Cooper's novels. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist and playwright, admired him greatly. Henry David Thoreau, while attending Harvard, incorporated some of Cooper's style in his own work. Cooper was one of the first major American novelists to include African, African-American and Native American characters in his works. In particular, Native Americans play central roles in his Leatherstocking tales. However, his treatment of this group is complex and highlights the tenuous relationship between frontier settlers and American Indians as exemplified in , depicting a captured… Read More

New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [8], 147, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. The contents are: A House on the Plains; Baby Wilson; Jolene: A Life; Walter John Harmon; and Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005). These, like many of his other works, placed fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, with known historical figures, and often used different narrative styles. His stories were recognized for their originality and versatility, and Doctorow was praised for his audacity and imagination. A number of Doctorow's novels and short stories were also adapted for the screen,… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall. Very Good+. 1864. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. iv, 306; iv, 285; iv, 338 pages; Three volumes in publisher's cloth: purple with fine horizontal ribs, elaborate pattern stamped in blind on the covers, a pattern on the spine of raised dots in diagonal rows - leading to a "woven" effect. Lettered in gilt on the spines. Yellow glazed endpapers. Covers unfaded, with only trifling rubbing. Some cracking to the inner hinges, and slight "shadow" on the free endpapers: (a brighter rectangular portion where the bookplates on the paste-downs have kept that portion of the facing endpaper from showing the slight effects of the glue used in the book-binding). Bookplates of Augustine Birrell on each of the three paste-down endpapers. Each of the facing free-endpapers has the neat pencil signature of the subsequent owner in the upper corner: "Simon Nowell Smith, July 1936." Each of the three volumes is housed in a matching… Read More

London: Martin Secker. Printed by The Mayflower Press, Plymouth, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. With a substantial, if somewhat crytic to us, inscription by Machen, in ink, to Walter Richter, dated September 13th, 1923, and signed with Machen's initials. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 309, [3] pp. The inscription reads: "'The stars glides [sic] only in the darkness & vanish away in clearer light.' This is a modified sentence from 'The Hill of Dreams,' and am inclined to think that in its modified form it expresses a [sic] universal truth of the mystic satire. A.M." Unfortunately, we don't know who the recipient, Walter A. Richter, was, or what his relationship with Machen might have been. The novel, of course, is arguably Machen's greatest masterpiece, and certainly among his three or four best works of fiction which still attract non-specialist readers. In the back -- the last two leaves with content -- are publisher's ads, one page devoted to the tales of Henry James… Read More

176 total Library of America books. 167 Library of America volumes in subscriber edition slipcases, including 6 sealed books. Also includes the LoA bonus volume "Philip Roth at 80," 5 LoA leatherbound editions, and 3 LoA Paperback Classics. Full list below.Note that conditions vary; 6 are sealed. Many are new and unread. Some are in rougher shape, including a couple dozen with a stamp from a high school on the outside edge of the pages. Conditions vary with some being ex-library; sold as is. Please inquire if you have a question about the condition of a particular volume.
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1. Herman Melville - "Typee, Omoo, Mardi" | Series no. 12. Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Tales and Sketches" | Series no. 23. Walt Whitman - "Poetry and Prose" | Series no. 34. Harriet Beecher Stowe - "Three Novels" | Series no. 45. Mark Twain - "Mississippi Writings" | Series no. 56. Jack London - "Novels and Stories" | Series no. 67. Jack London - "Novels and Social Writings" | Series no. 78. William Dean Howells - "Novels… Read More

New York, 1979. 26 volumes complete. Black cloth with pastel blue spine label and gilt lettering. . Internally the books are like new, no writing or bookplates.A few of the volumes show light fading, one of the volumes a light stain on the fore-edge. Overall an attractive edition of this scarce complete set of Henry James' complete novel and tales. The titles are: Roderick Hudson, The American, The Portrait of a Lady (part one) The Portait of a Lady (part two), The Princess Casamassima (part one), The Princess Cassamassima (part two),The Tragic Muse (part one),The Tragic Muse (part two),The Awkward Age, The Spoils of Poynton, A London Life, The Chaperon, What Maisie Knew, In the Cage, The Pupil, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Liar, The Two Faces, The Reverberator, Madame Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim, The Madonna of the Future, Louisa Pallant, Lady Barbarina, The Siege of London, An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, A Bundle of Letters, The Point of View,The Lesson… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Hardcover. Very good +. Very Good + copy of the First edition, First Issue, bound from the original parts (without the original wrappers and advertisements found in the original wrappered Parts); with the Publisher's rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p. 297 of Volume with the semicolon present after "Hoggle-Stockians" (missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 370 spelling "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves have been rebound in 3/4 blue leather with coordinated blue cloth, the closed page blocks, the pastedowns, and the facing side of each free endpaper of each Volume is marbled as well. Each volume's binding… Read More

Printer: Cambridge: Riverside Press.Individual title(s): The Spy (550 p.) [1821], The Pioneers (609 p.) [1823], Red Rover (534 p.) [1828], Wish-ton-Wish (483 p.) [1829], Bravo (474 p.) [1831], The Monikins (491 p.) [1835], Home as Found (489 p.) [1838], The Wing-and-Wing (440 p.) [1842], Wallingford (426 p.) [1844], Afloat and Ashore (502 p.) [1844], Satanstoe (461 p.) [1845], The Chainbearer (438 p.) [1845], The Redskins (476 p.) [1846], Ways of the Hour (512 p.) [1850]About this item: 6, 885 Pp. total. 14 of 32 volumes. 3/4 red leather hardcovers, gilt stamped/embossed title and floral design over spines, feature 5 raised hubs, black title labels, matched marble boards/endpapers/full leaf edges. Dimensions: 7 H x 4.75 D x 1 (16 overall) inches.About the author and works: James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the First edition, First Issue, bound from the original Parts WITH THE WRAPPERS FOR EACH PART BOUND IN TO THE REAR OF EACH VOLUME WITH A MULTITUDE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR EACH PART bound between their respective wrappers (excluding the advertisements for Part XXVI for which no seperate advertisements are included); with the Publisher's rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p. 297 of Volume II with the semicolon present after "HoggleStockians" (missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 371 spelling "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves and wrappers… Read More

Paris: Desessart, 1847. Piracy, Banditry and Disorder" Bewitching Beauty Inflames Desires Uncut, in the Original Printed Wrappers SAND, George. Le Piccinino. Paris: Desessart, Éditeur, 1847. First edition. Five octavo volumes (9 1/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 231 x 139 mm.). [4], 315, [1, blank], [1, "Table"], [3, blank] (final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown); [4], 301, [1, blank], [1, "Table"], [1, blank]; [4], 307, [1, "Table"]; 308, [1, "Table"], [3, blank] (final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown); [4, advertisements], [4], 318, [1, "Table], [1, blank] pp. Uncut, in the original yellow printed wrappers, protected by glassine wrappers. Advertisements on rear wrappers. Minimal chipping to wrappers, spines slightly darkened, some light foxing and edge browning, as usual. A wonderful set. Each volume housed in a marbled board slipcase and the five volumes housed together in two quarter dark blue morocco over royal blue cloth clamshell cases, spines with five raised bands ruled in gilt, three… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. First. Fine. SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BINDING of one of the first and most influential detective novels. A beautiful copy. Note: We can find no other examples of the first issue with first state ads in public auction records. After the publication of The Woman in White William Wilkie Collins earned an international reputation as a master of his craft, a pioneer of detective writing and a creator of a new genre. Born in London in 1824, he was the son of a well-known landscape painter and a former governess. When he was twelve his family spent two years in Italy and France and Collins became fluent in French and Italian and learned more "among the scenery, the pictures, and the people, than I ever learned at school." His family returned to England when Collins was fourteen and as a boarding school student he told nightly stories to appease the dormitory bully. He later recalled that "it was this brute who first awakened in me,… Read More