Complete 1925-1933 6 volume collection and one-volume 1935 edition, all in VG condition with clean deckled pages & firm bindings (specifics below). 'First written by poet, noblewoman & lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century, The Tale of Genji (aka Genji Monogatari) is considered one of the world's first novels, and the first written by a woman to gain global recognition. First translated to modern Japanese in the 20th century In her 1925 review of the first volume for Vogue, Virginia Woolf wrote "Unhasting, unresting, with unabated fertility, story after story flows from the brush from the brush of Murasaki. Without this gift of intervention we might well fear that the tale of Genji would run dry before the six volumes are filled. With it, we need have no such foreboding. We can take our station and watch, through Mr Waley's beautiful telescope, the new star rise in perfect confidence that it is going to be large and luminous and serene" -The Tale of Genji (1925 1st E