14 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, title-pages printed in light blue and black; 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces; lithographic frontispieces and numerous illustrations after Grant, numerous facsimile reproductions. (Slight offsetting and marginal toning.) Contemporary red crushed levant, spines gilt-ruled, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 3, gilt-decorated in 4, top edges gilt, others uncut and partially unopened (some minor staining, some light wear to joints and a few joints just starting, a few endpapers slightly creased). Provenance: Eva Roberts Stotesbury (bookplates).
LIMITED EDITION, number 177 of 1075 sets of the “Memorial Edition,” and "Edition de Luxe," SIGNED BY GRANT AND THE PUBLISHER in vol. I. A complete set of works by American author O. Henry, known for plot twists and romanticizing American life in short stories, which were often set in New York City.