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

J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Single volume 5 only (issued in 12 volumes). Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 414 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding 1s solid, paper is creasm white, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good minus. Single volume 2 only (issued in 12 volumes). Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 446 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding 1s solid, paper is cream white, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket with some foxing primarily to the blank reverse, with the original price present.

London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Single volume 2 only (issued in 12 volumes). Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 446 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear, but the spine is slightly canted; hinges and binding 1s solid, paper is lightly yellowed. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, chipped at the fold edges with the original price present.

J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Single volume 6 only (issued in 12 volumes). Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 444 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding 1s solid, paper is cream white, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust but color faded dust jacket, with the original price present.

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front cover, blue decorative labels and gilt lettering on spine CONDITION: GOOD, ex-library with the usual markings (withdrawn stamp on top edge, label at spine foot, library stamp & corner clipped on front endpaper, and card pocket remnant on rear endpaper o/w worn but sound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

Hardback. New. In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James's call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work. The aging James had agreed to revise his novels and tales into the twenty-four-volume New York Edition.

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

Palala Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. 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

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

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

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

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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

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