Autobiography: Including in One Volume: 'A Small Boy & Others', Notes of a Son & Brother', and 'the Middle Years'

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good+. 1983. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows a couple of fine creases to the backstrip; mild wear to the extremities; the faintest creases to a couple of the corners: the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, but showing very mild wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. NOT Remainder, Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches) . Notes. Index. Edited and with an Introduction by Frederick W. Dupee. Language: English. Weight: 22.7 ounces. Attractive blue and cream toned self-wraps with blue titles at the front panel and backstrip. First published as a set in 1956 by Criterion. Paperback. Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years. Begun when James was sixty-eight years old, it was written at a time when his great critical mind was actively devoted to the understanding of his existence in its complicated wholeness. The reader will come away from the book with a picture of the man within the novelist--the intimate basis of James's themes and methods. The three books are comparable in importance to 'The Education of Henry Adams' and Hawthorne’s 'The Custom House' and form a significant contribution to America’s autobiographic literature. It is a highly personal account of the great novelist’s discovery of Europe and of his artistic vocation, as well as a fascinating story of the life of one of the most remarkable families of the nineteenth century, the members of which experienced, in James’s own words, "the classic years of the great Americano-European legend." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 622 pages .