the Henry James
Tales in collections index
tale : The last of the Valerii
(11100 words, 1874)
variants :
(source details) 		magazine text
first book text
revised book text
The novels and stories of Henry James : new and complete edition / [edited by Percy Lubbock]. – London : Macmillan, 1921-23,   Vol. 26,   pages 3 - 40
text state not known
Ten short stories of Henry James / selected, with an introduction, by Michael Swan. – London : John Lehmann, 1948,   pages 17 - 43
[ first book text ];   introduction
The ghostly tales of Henry James / edited, with an introduction by Leon Edel. – New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1948 [not collated]
text state not known;   introduction
The complete tales of Henry James / edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. – London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-64,   Vol. 3,   pages 89 - 122
first book text;   brief introduction
The madonna of the future, and other early stories / by Henry James, with a foreword by Willard Thorp. – New York : New American Library, 1962. – (Signet classics ; CD105),   pages 223 - 253
magazine text;   introduction, bibliography
Selected short stories / Henry James, edited with an introduction by Michael Swan. – Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1963. – (Penguin modern classics). – ISBN 0-14-001919-7,   pages 13 - 42
first book text;   introduction
Stories of the supernatural / Henry James, edited and with a new introduction and headnotes by Leon Edel. – London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. – A revised edition of The ghostly tales of Henry James (1949). – t.p.v. has invalid ISBN 0-214-68277-7   [imperfect copy collated],   pages 70 - 102
revised book text;   introduction
The tales of Henry James / edited by Maqbool Aziz. – Vol. 1-3 : 1864-1879. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1973-84. – ISBN 0-19-812457-0, 0-19-812572-0, 0-19-812573-9,   Vol. 2,   pages 259 - 283
magazine text, variants in first book text and revised book text;   introduction, notes
Tales of art and life / Henry James, selection and introduction by Henry Terrie. – Schenectady, NY : Union College Press, 1984. – (Signature series). – ISBN 0-912756-12-8
[also includes two tales by Guy de Maupassant, The necklace and The jewels, and The Venus of Ille by Prosper Mérimée, in translations by Frank Gado],   pages 17 - 43 		in print
£ 5.50, $ 6.75
first book text;   introduction
Complete stories, 1864-1874 / Henry James. – New York : The library of America, 1999. – (The library of America ; 111). – ISBN 1-883011-70-1,   pages 798 - 827 in print
$ 40.00
first book text;   notes

known etexts for
The last of the Valerii

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first book text American none Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 (scan and instant-OCR only, search for Henry James’ ‘A passionate pilgrim’ volume)
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