Notes for The Ivory Tower

by Henry James (1843-1916)

Versions of Notes for The Ivory Tower include:

• "Notes for The Ivory Tower" in The Ivory Tower (London: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1917)

  — First English book edition

• "Notes for The Ivory Tower" in The Ivory Tower (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917)

  — First American book edition; a small number of copies were bound with front matter identifying it as Volume 25 of The Novels and Tales of Henry James (i.e. the "New York Edition"), and sold exclusively to collection subscribers.

• "Notes for The Ivory Tower" in F. O. Matthiessen (ed.) (1947) The American Novels and Stories of Henry James.

  — "Notes for The Ivory Tower" was unintentionally omitted from the first impression but included in the second.

• "Notes for the Ivory Tower" in F. O. Matthiessen and Alfred A. Knopf (1947) Editor's and Publisher's Note for The American Novels and Stories of Henry James.

  — Separate printing, issued to purchasers of the first impression of The American Novels and Stories of Henry James, from which "Notes for The Ivory Tower" was unintentionally omitted.