[Literature/American Authors]. 6 Titles (15 Vols). 8vo. Half/full leather. Some vols of Oliver Wendell Holmes have cracked front hinge. Otherwise good to near fine. Condition variation must be expected within large group lots. ++ Henry James. THE BOSTONIANS: A Novel. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1886. [half title leaf], [full title leaf], [divisional title leaf], [3]-449, [i], ads [451]-[452] pp. Base of p449: “Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.” 1st single-volume edition. Recto of ads leaf advertises books for $1.50 each (see the reference to “dollar advertisements” provided by Edel & Laurence). 3000 copies of the first single-volume edition were sent to the United States, and 2000 were sold in Britain beginning 2 months later. BAL (10575) argues that the ads leaf was probably excised from those single-volume copies sold in Britain, but Edel & Laurence (A28) assume that it was retained. ++ THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Household Edition. 10 Vols. Bos: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887-1888. ++ THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. Household Edition. (1892). ++ THE BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. Edited by Sherwin Cody. 1906. ++ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. HYPERION: A Romance. 1892. ++ H. L. Mencken. IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN. 1922.