About this title: Originally published in 1949, The Complete Plays of Henry James revealed how the novelist, after repeated attempts to succeed on stage, used his dramatic experience to create his major novels written after 1900. This masterful new edition by prize-winning biographer Leon Edel now charts James's posthumous success in the modern media. Through examination of the plays themselves, Edel brings to light the irony of James's dramatic novels--novels that achieved the kind of success in video and film that James had desperately sought in the theater of the 1890s. Corrected and carefully updated, this ...
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, U K.
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Stated first edition, first printing....HARDCOVER EDITION....nice copy...binding is solid...text unmarked....lacking d.j.....spine slightly faded/stained....literature, case. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hart-Davis
Date Published: 1949
Description: Acceptable. No Jacket. Ex-Library reserve stock. cloth. 846pp. Wobble to rear hinge but netting intact. Light shelf marking to outer fore-edges, inner pages clean and tight. Reference plate to endpapers. Usual Reference Stamps. read more
Edition: REPRINT Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford U.P., New York, NY
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195043792ISBN:0195043790
Description: Frontispiece. VG+/VG+ W/Dust Jacket 846pgs(Index) DJ spine area (NOT letters) just slightly faded, owner name embossment on front endpaper, Half Title Page, small ink date. Stamp, number, word inside rear endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & very tight. DJ not chipped, torn, etc. Rest of book Like New. ISBN 0195043790. read more
Description: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Edited by Leon Edel. Slight bumping at the extremities of this bulky book else a near fine copy in DJ with a few small edge tears, some superficial staining at the extremities. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195043792ISBN:0195043790
Description: As New in Very Good jacket. PLAYS. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. VII + 846 PAGES. Includes preface, foreword, notes, acknowledgments, a note on the texts, klnotes, & index. With b/w illustrations. Name of previous owner on ffep. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa
Date Published: 1949
Description: VERY GOOD+ in GOOD dustjacket; octavo; 846 pp (including index and notes); price clipped, moderately sunned, small chips/nicks along edges with several small closed creased tears, rubbed with nicks and quiet minor smudges and soil spots; else clean tight copy in protective mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, London
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good/No Jacket. Used First edition with twelve photographic plates. Good condition; binding slightly worn, light soiling to pages. Original price and owner's name on FEP. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195043792ISBN:0195043790
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" Text clean & bright; binding tight; moderate wear to dustjacket; vertical crease across dustjacket's spine. 846 pages. Illustrated. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195043792ISBN:0195043790
Description: Fine. 0195043790 THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. THE BOOK AND DUST JACKET ARE IN FINE/FINE CONDITION, LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia and New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Near Fine in Good jacket. 8vo-9-1/4" x 6-1/8" As edited by Mr. Edel. Brick red cloth, beige cloth backstrip, gilt-stamped lettering & decorative rules on brick red panel on spine, brown top edge dye, frontispiece photo of Mr. James ca.1895, 846pp, page notes, index, a note on the texts [cited]. First Edition stated. Yellow dust jacket with blue bordering top & bottom, biographical sketch of Mr. Edel on back panel. No price on front flap top corner, although there is evidence of price sticker ... read more
Description: No date (c.1949). Rupert Hart-Davis. Hard cover. Book-VG, gilt titles on spine. 9.5x6.5. 846pp. 12 b/w photos inc frontis. Ex College library. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very Good. B000LOHVU2 hardcover in dustjacket. stated first edition. very good condition. moderate rubbing and edgewear to jacket, corners of front flap torn off. previous owner's name on title page. pages browning. binding tight and square. a nice solid copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: RUPERT HART-DAVIS
Date Published: 1949
Description: Published by RUPERT HART-DAVIS in 1949, 846 pages, hardback with D/J, medium size, wear to edges, hinges weak, page edges foxed, some pages foxed, wear to head & tail of spine, spine sunned & faded, index, notes & refs. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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