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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DEFINITIVE: INTIMATE: FASCINATING: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1987) First Printing: FINE virtually AS-NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT w/ inside-front bottom-right flyleaf corner neatly price-clipped on the diagonal, NEW cover w/ durable black fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.0" onto front & back panels covered in EXCELLENT matching black paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & Henry James autograph gold-stamped at bottom left of front panel & w/ titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior BUT w/ top-edge slightly shelf-dust-soiled, IMMACULATE pale-teal card-stock end-papers BUT w/ name neatly printed at front top-right, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & b-w-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.26" x 9.50" x 2.0" x ", 1.08 kg, xxx+633+ix (672) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "The Complete Notebooks of Henry James" opens a wide, clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist, the architect of modernism in fiction. It is a volume that deserves to be called DEFINITIVE. Assembled and edited by Leon Edel, James's much-acclaimed prizewinning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James' letters to Edith Wharton, this book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947; these have been considerably UPDATED and ANNOTATED to correct the identification of stories developed by James from his various notes and to reveal many noted Victorians James concealed through use of their initials. Certain omitted portions of the notebooks have also been restored. This volume is especially noteworthy for the body of new material that it contains. It includes a series of James' pocket diaries in which, amid appointments & luncheon dates, he jotted down observations & ideas for his fiction & commented on his personal relations. Also here are some fugitive dictated notes, in which James offered an autobiographical meditation on the "Turning Point" in his life & the "working out" of a story based on a passion murder by an American acquaintance in the south of France. James' long out-of-print statements for his unfinished novels "The Ivory Tower" & "The Sense of the Past", scenarios for unfinished plays, the writer's deathbed dictation--all these are here as well. An appendix includes a substantial fragment of a story James never completed, & the book even provides insight into James' "cash accounts." Everywhere throughout the collection, in writings never intended for the public eye, the artist is seen at work. his private prayers to his Muse & exhortations to himself make exhilarating reading. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Leon Edel is the author of "Life of Henry James" which received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, & the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Arts & Letters. Lyall H. Powers is Professor of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan & author & editor of several critical studies of Henry James. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: FINE LOA First edition hardcover (Orig. 1984) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ double-rule gilt borders & gilt LOA-logo on front panel, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan distinctive LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.84", 0.88 kg, 1408 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 2.04", 0.98 kg * CONTENTS: Literary Criticism: French Writers (1), Other European Writers (901), The Prefaces to the New York Edition (1035); Chronology (1343), Notes on the Texts (1359), Notes (1371), Index (1383). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Henry James, renowned as one of the world's great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, & masterly critics of modern times. This is one of two LOA volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, w/ many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along w/ more general essays & the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published between 1907 & 1909. The collection attests to James' nearly unparalleled creative energy & to the reach of his theoretical & interpretive curiosity. His unique authority as a commentator draws upon the European-American contrast that is a central circumstance of his own fiction. A member of intellectual circles on both continents, he became the foremost interpreter to American readers of the literary & cultural life of Europe. More than 100 reviews and essays are gathered by author, so that readers can trace the development of James' complex, meditative, & highly volatile attitudes toward a wide spectrum of literature. James reviews the formidable Honoré de Balzac (w/ his "huge, all compassing, all desiring, all devouring love of reality"), Gustave Flaubert ("a pearl-diver, breathless in the thick element while he groped for the priceless word"), & Ivan Turgenev, the Russian visitor in Paris, w/ whom James felt great personal affinity, even though Tugenev "lacked the immense charm of absorbed inventiveness." James delivers his critical judgments w/ great elegance & point, especially when he discusses the performance of other critics like Hippolyte Taine & Augustin Sainte-Beuve, &, of course, he can be wonderfully acerbic. An early moralistic essay on Baudelaire finds Poe "vastly the greater charlatan of the two, and the greater genius." James brings his critical zest, exhilaration, & independence of judgment to bear on writers as diverse as Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier, J.W. von Goethe, & Gabriele D'Annunzio. Readers will find, in the complete collection of the Prefaces, one of literature's most revealing artistic autobiographies, a wholly absorbing account of how writing gets written, & a vision of the possibilities for fiction which critics & novelists of later times will find immensely instructive & liberating. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Leon Edel (1907-1997) was emeritus professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His 5-volume biography of Henry James received both a Pulitzer Prize & a National Book Award. Mark Wilson, associate editor, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: FREE Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xxvi, 486 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Printing. Would Be Near Fine Butr Extensive Pencil And Ink Note Underlining And Notes By Henry James Scholar Martha Banta, And With 2 Pp Of Her Notes.

HARD BACK GREY. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: TATTERED DJ. some pencil underling at end of book DATE PUBLISHED: 1953 EDITION: 607.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1987. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of the First American Edition. Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind other than a red star (remainder mark?) on the top edge. The Binding is black quarter cloth to black boards, colors uniform throughout, with the author's signature in bright gilt to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked green endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Jacket. See the photos. xxix, 633 pages. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". An authoritative, scholarly collection of all of the author's notes and fragments. Edited with Introduction & Notes by Leon Edel & Lyall H. Powers. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1,040 grams / 36.6 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0195037820 / ISBN 13: 9780195037821.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New American edition. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, very good being Professor and Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly and his underlining throughout, in a good only edgeworn and torn dust jacket with tape repair along the extremities.

Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very good+ in like dust jacket. First impression. Very good+ in like dust jacket. DJ a little darkened and worn. A touch of foxing to extremeties. 384pp.