In 1996 the AMS awarded Goro Shimura the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his "important and extensive work on arithmetical geometry and automorphic forms." His seminal work has resulted in the "many notations in number theory that carry his name and that have long been familiar to workers in the field." These 4 volumes contain 103 of his most important papers, beginning in 1954 and continuing up through the present.
From the reviews:
"This book is the first in a row of four announced volumes. It covers the period 1954-1966 during which Goro Shimura produced more than thirty publications. ... Important contributions concerning the zeta function of an algebraic variety and automorphic functions are featured. ... the mimeographed 1964 lecture notes by Shimura appear in a final form. They are completed by fascinating historical notes and comments made by the author ... ." (Jean-Paul Pier, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1008, 2003)