The Novels and Tales of …

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. The Large Paper New York Edition. One of only 156 sets. Photogravure frontispieces by Alvin Langborn Coburn. 26 vols. 8vo. Original quarter buckram and brown boards, uncut. The usual soiling to the white buckram spines, some labels very slightly chipped, overall very good. Bookplates of Katharine McBride. A nice set, comparative bright and fresh. The Large Paper New York Edition. One of only 156 sets. Photogravure frontispieces by Alvin Langborn Coburn. 26 vols. 8vo. The most essential and important edition of James, who selected the novels and tales, ordered them, and wrote the famous 18 prefaces for each novel (truncated) and each volume of tales. The soft focus photogravure images by Alvin Langborn Coburn are evocative. The set was issued two volumes at a time between 14 December 1907 and 31 July 1909. Edel notes that the first printings of Vols. I-X consisted of 1500 copies each; subsequent volumes consisted of 1000 each; in April of 1918, two posthumous volumes, comprising The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, were issued by the publisher in uniform format and binding. Large paper sets are rare. BAL 10665; Edel 64.2.0 (noting a set in Jaffe catalogue, March 2000) (Inventory #: 370094)