- "A Light Man" in The Galaxy 8 (1) (July 1869): 49–68.
- — First publication in any form; the original "magazine text".
- "A Light Man" in Stories by American Authors (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884) 5: 5–53.[1]
- — First American book edition; the original "first book text".
- "A Light Man" in Stories Revived (3 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1885) 1: 199–245. (transcription project)
- — First English book edition; the original "revised book text".
- "A Light Man" in Stories Revived (2 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1885) 1: 199–245.
- — Reprint of the first English book edition; uses the "revised book text".
- "A Light Man" in Master Eustace (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920): 147–200.
- — A posthumous publication; uses the "magazine text".
- "A Light Man" in The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A New England Winter, The Path of Duty, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 192?): 211–249.
- — Volume 25 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the "revised book text".