THE PORTABLE HENRY JAMES, (Viking Portable Library Series #55)
by James, Henry; edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a tan spine with gilt and dark brown lettering over blue boards in a good dust jacket with some edgewear, a bit of /tan spine with gilt and dark brown lettering over blue boards in a good
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
"He is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." —Graham GreeneHenry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces of cities, the nuances of speech, dress, and manner, and, above all, the microscopic interactions, hesitancies, betrayals, and self-betrayals that are the true substance of relationships. The entirely new Portable Henry James provides an unparalleled range of this great body of work: seven major tales, including Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner"; a sampling of revisions James made to some of his most famous work; travel writing; literary criticism; correspondences; autobiography; descriptions of the major novels; and parodies by famous contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87074
- Title
- THE PORTABLE HENRY JAMES, (Viking Portable Library Series #55)
- Author
- James, Henry; edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a tan spine with gilt and dark brown lettering over blue boards in a good dust jacket with some edgewear, a bit of
- Jacket Condition
- tan spine with gilt and dark brown lettering over blue boards in a good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1951.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
Terms of Sale
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
About Bookfever.com, IOBA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...