Which of Henry James’ books do you own? Let’s see those shelves.
Do you have any signed, first editions, or covers you adore? Volumes with memories attached - to a college or high school class, a teacher, a family member who gifted it to you? To a time in your life when James helped - or hurt - you?
He can absolutely do both.
Without further ado, here is the list of all the James I own, including the publisher and year:
Confidence Riverside 1880 (first edition)
Daisy Miller Harper 1892
Daisy Miller Modern Library 2002
Daisy Miller Penguin Classics 1986
Daisy Miller Complete Penguin 1947 (I adore this cover)
Essays, American and English Writers Library of America 1984
Italian Hours - Ore Italiane Brilli 2020
Nathaniel Hawthorne Harper 1880 (first edition)
The Ambassadors Penguin Classics 2003
The American Macmillan 1879 (first edition)
The American Scene Harper 1907 (first edition)
The Awkward Age Harper 1899 (first edition)
The Awkward Age Oxford World's Classics 1984
The Finer Grain Scribner's 1910 (first edition)
The Golden Bowl Penguin Classics 1985
The Outcry Scribner's 1911 (first edition)
The Portrait of a Lady Riverside 1963
The Portrait of a Lady Norton Second Ed 1995
The Portrait of a Lady Cambridge Edition 2016
What Maisie Knew Oxford World's Classics 1996
Books about James, his family, and his work, also correspondence:
A Bibliography of Henry James Edel, Laurence, Rambeau
A Companion to Henry James ed. Zacharias
A Thing Divided: Representation in the Late Novels of Henry James Landau
Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction, and Film Raw
Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James McCall
Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915 ed. Powers
Henry James and the Mass Market Jacobson
Henry James five volume biography (paperback), Edel
Henry James Framed Anesko
Henry James: A Life in Letters ed. Horne
Henry James: Letters vol IV 1895-1916 ed. Edel
Henry James: Selected Letters ed. Edel
Henry James: The Conquest of London 1870-1884 Edel (2 copies)
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius Kaplan
Henry James: The Middle Years Edel
Henry James's New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship ed. McWhirter
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family Fisher
Letters, Fictions, Lives Anesko
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James Miller
The Author's Empty Purse Hepburn
The Correspondence of Henry James and the House of Macmillan ed. Moore
The House of Blackwood Finkelstein
The Image of Europe in Henry James Wegelin
The James Family: A Group Biography Matthiessen
The Jameses: A Family Narrative Lewis
The Library of Henry James Tintner
The Twentieth Century World of Henry James Tintner
I have a smallish wish list on Bookshop because I could only find a few titles there I’m after having. If only AbeBooks allowed for shareable wishlists . . . because someone out there is absolutely dying to send this to my door.
A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature. Read or listen to An Eye for Genius today.
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My few surviving, battered paperbacks (Penguin editions) of James' novels don't match up to your impressive bookshelf. An itinerant life and a couple hasty departures from places I never went back to have diminished my book collection overall, along with the need to fit myself into a tiny Tokyo apartment. That's why I no longer have the Edel Life, either.
Dig James. Dig a list. So think this is pretty cool.