Signed; Henry James - Henry James Reference Works (first and limited editions) - 1920-1994

Henry James Reference Works:

1 "A Bibliography of the writings of Henry James" by LeRoy Philips - Coward McCann, New York - 1930 limited edition no 147 of 500 copies, signed by author Leroy Philips - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, all plates present

2 "Pardon My Delay: letters from Henry James to Bruce Richmond" - Foundling Press, 1994, Limited edition of 350 copies, this being no 259 printed on Monotype Baskerville on Zerkall mould-made paper

3 "The Library of Henry James" compiled and edited by Leon Edel - UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor - 1987 first edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: Very good in dustwrapper

4-5 "The Letters of Henry James" by Henry James and edited by Percy Lubbock - Charles Scribner's, NY - 1920 first American edition - complete in 2 volumes - 20cmx15cm - condition: good, some rubbing to boards, portraits of Henry James as frontispieces

Henry James OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to Impressionist painting