ISBN10: 0674387805, ISBN13: 9780674387805, [publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press] Hardcover
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1974]

ISBN10: 0674387805, ISBN13: 9780674387805, [publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press] Hardcover 489 pages. No dj.Here at last is the first volume of the long -awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost J amesian scholar. James was a superlative letter-writer; his cor respondence constitutes one of the greateat self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Mr. Edel, respecting James's view th at only the best of a writer's letters deserve publication, skims the cream of the fifteen thousand letters collected or discovere d, many by the biographer himself, since the novelist's death in 1916. In volume one, the first of a projected four, he provides a general introduction and a necessary minimum of annotation, an d prefaces each section--Boyhood and Youth; Beginnings; The Grand Tour; A Season in Cambridge; Travel and Opportunity; and The Cho ice--with an informative account of James's attitudes and activit ies during the period in question. The volume closes, appropriate ly, with James's decision in 1875, at age thirty-two, to move per manently to Europe. Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar. James wa s a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this editio n Mr. Edel, respecting James's view that ...

Cambridge: Belknap Press, Date: 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Volume one only! Hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, 1974, octavo, 493pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's sticker to front pastedown, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear. 1974. Belknap Press ISBN 0674387805 9780674387805 [US]

ISBN10: 0674387805, ISBN13: 9780674387805, [publisher: The Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover First Edition Xxxvii, 493 Pp. Navy Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine Book In Fine Dust Jacket.
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