ISBN10: 1931082308, ISBN13: 9781931082303, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover First Edition CLASSIC: NEW (sealed in LOA shrink-wrap) First Edition hardcover, (Orig. 2003) First Printing: NEW cream paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA logo at top center, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE handsome white-on-dark-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smythe-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 unblemished acid-fee Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.28", 0.65 kg, 1035 pp. Slipcase: 5.30" x 8.46" x 1.50", 0.74 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1896-1899: The Other House (1), The Spoils of Poynton (211), What Maisie Knew (395), The Awkward Age (651); Chronology (1011), Note on the Texts (1026), Notes (1030) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume collects 4 novels written by Henry James in the period immediately following his unsuccessful 5-year-long attempt to establish himself as a playwright on the London stage. Hoping to convert his "infinite little loss" into "infinite little gain," James returned to the novelistic examination of English society with a new appreciation for what ...