Evanston: TriQuarterly 1977. 256 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with tanning to page edges. Work by de Campos Roche Cixous Sollers Brooke-Rose Cage Sorrentino Gass Calvino and many others. Evanston: TriQuarterly unknown books
NY: Viking 1958. First edition. 266 pp w/index. Topstain dull else fine in full green buckram lacking the dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Ellmann. Preface by T.S. Eliot. One of 375 copies published in advance of the first edition as a Christmas remembrance for friends of the Press. NY: Viking, hardcover books
NY: Viking 1958. First edition. 266 pp w/index. Splash marks to top edge else near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few shallow chips. Edited with introduction and notes by Richard Ellman. Preface by T.S. Eliot. NY: Viking, unknown books
Berkeley: University of California Press 1978. First edition. xiii 120 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Berkeley: University of California Press unknown books
NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Top edge a little dusty else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stain at crown of spine. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Reid. NY: New Directions unknown books
NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Very good plus in full cloth lacking dust jacket. Penciled notes inside rear cover. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Reid. NY: New Directions hardcover books
London: Turnstile Press 1948. First edition. 253 pp w/index of authors. One signature improperly trimmed else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two short tears sunning to spine and light edgewear. First book appearance of James Joyce’s “From A Banned Writer To A Banned Singer.†Contributions by Forster Waley Gascoyne Wells Chekov Pritchett L. Woolf C. Connolly V. Woolf Belloc Fry etc. Slocum & Cahoon B28. London: Turnstile Press unknown books
Paris & London: Alyscamps Press 1993. First edition. 41 pp w/references. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Color reproduction of a painting of Joyce as a frontis. Paris & London: Alyscamps Press, unknown books
Unterengstringen & Hamilton: np 1962-1963. First eighteen issues of this long-running periodical- March 1962 to December 1963. Most have light rust-marks near staples else all are near fine or better. At the beginning of issue 18 is printed “With this issue we wind up A Wake Newslitter Old Style and prepare for our emergence in print early next year.†Unterengstringen & Hamilton: (np) unknown books
San Francisco: City Lights 1970. First US edition. 89 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cook 88. [San Francisco]: City Lights unknown books
New York: A New Directions Book 1955. Later edition. Light green cloth binding black lettering to spine. Blue printed paper DJ. Moderate wear to binding rubbing to edges age-toning to textblock. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown. DJ worn and sunned edges clipped. A VG example in an About VG DJ. 6 251 1 blank pp. Black& white photographic images within. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> A New Directions Book hardcover books
London: Longmans Green & Co. 1960. First printing of this revised edition originally published in 1957. 44 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Writers and Their Work No. 91. London: Longmans, Green & Co. unknown books
NY: New York University Press 1998. First US edition. 242 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. NY: New York University Press unknown books
New York: Viking/Studio 1968. Cloth. Photographs. First edition American issue bound up from British sheets. Jacket flaps lightly offset to endsheets otherwise near fine in dust jacket. Viking/Studio hardcover books
New York: Viking/Studio 1968. Cloth. Photographs. First edition American issue British sheets. Near fine in dust jacket. Viking/Studio hardcover books
New York: Viking / Studio 1968. Small quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated. First U.S. edition. Faintly dusty else near fine in dust jacket. Viking / Studio hardcover books
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1986. Sewn printed wrapper. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Wrapper and facing leaves rather foxed and tanned otherwise a very good copy. The Rowfant Club unknown books
New York: G. Schirmer Inc. 1939. Two volumes. Printed self wrappers. Fine. Present are the settings for "Sleep Now" and "I Hear an Army" each issued separately. "Rain has Fallen" was the third piece. Possibly if not probably later printings with three dots in the upper left corners of the upper wrappers. Slocum & Cahoon make no distinctions about printings of sheet music. SLOCUM & CAHOON F21 & F22. G. Schirmer, Inc. unknown books
New York: Harcourt 1956. Pictorial boards. First edition of this excerpt from SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY printed for distribution to friends of the author and of the publisher. Spine tips worn else very good. Harcourt hardcover books
Paris: Shakespeare & Company 1929. Printed wrappers. Very slight typical edge tanning otherwise a very nice copy in an early glassine wrapper which is a bit wrinkled and soiled. First edition regular paper issue. This copy bears an inscription from Sylvia Beach the publisher beneath the ownership signature of Joyce scholar Patricia Hutchins probably executed in the late '40s or early '50s. Includes contributions by Beckett his first appearance in a book Williams Jolas Gilbert McAlmon McGreevy Paul Rodker Budgeon Dixon et al. A passage from WIP which did not make it into the final text of FINNEGANS WAKE is included. SLOCUM & CAHOON B10. WALLACE B11. F&F 1. Shakespeare & Company unknown books
Vienna etc: Herbert Reichner Verlag 1936. Small quarto. Plain wrappers printed label. Lower fore-corner bumped else about fine. First edition of this significant essay examining the currents "that flow through the Joycian world-quotidian of the epoch." quoted from the Jolas translation as "Joyce and the Present Age". DEMING 1027. Herbert Reichner Verlag unknown books
Paris: Les Lettres Nouvelles/Denoel 1975. Gilt cloth. First edition in French translated by Edith Fourneir. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small nick. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Les Lettres Nouvelles/Denoel hardcover books
Paris: Les Lettres Nouvelles/Denoel 1975. Gilt cloth. First edition in French translated by Edith Fourneir. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small nick. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Les Lettres Nouvelles/Denoel hardcover books
New York: Norton 1965. Gilt black cloth. First US edition. Top edge faintly dustmarked otherwise about fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny closed internally mended edge-tear. Norton hardcover books
New York: Harcourt 1944. Cloth. First edition of Campbell's first clothbound publication. Laid is a publication announcement and solicitation for advance orders from the Argus Bookshop. Fine in slightly darkened price-clipped dust jacket. Harcourt hardcover books
Dublin: Gil and Macmillan 1981. Cloth. First edition. Obtrusive ownership inscription on front free endsheet else fine in dust jacket with a bookstore price sticker on lower panel. A reconstructed biography of the fictional character from Joyce's ULYSSES. Gil and Macmillan hardcover books
Zurich: Verlag der Neuen Schweizer Rundschau 1929. 691pp. Printed Japanese tissue wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition in book form. Tissue shows the usual foxing that has offset a bit to prelims and terminal leaves; otherwise very good or better. Verlag der Neuen Schweizer Rundschau unknown books
Washington: Library of Congress 1982. Printed wrappers. Portrait. First edition in this form of this LC lecture. Near fine. Library of Congress unknown books
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 929 1983. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Tiny production crimp in spine otherwise fine. First edition in German translated from the 1982 French edition by Franz-Heinrich Hackel. Foreword by Phillippe Sollers. The US edition was not published until 1985. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 929 unknown books
New York: Vanguard 1948. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait. First edition. Obtrusive ink ownership inscription on free endsheet a couple of corners creased otherwise a very good copy in fair heavily chipped dust jacket. Jolas Budgen Eliot Farrell Kenner Wilson Campbell Gilbert et al. Vanguard hardcover books
London: Butterworth 1933. Cloth. First edition. Pencil note on dedication page otherwise about fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Butterworth hardcover books
London: Butterworth 1933. Cloth. First edition. A fine copy lacking the dust jacket with the 1933 ownership inscription of poet/publisher James Laughlin. Butterworth hardcover books
Paris: Editions du C.N.R.S. 1979. Stapled printed wrappers. First separate printing of this essay from JOYCE & PARIS issued as an author's separate. Fine. Editions du C.N.R.S. unknown books
Np: Extrait des Lettres Nouvelles IX:13 nd. Printed wrappers. First separate printing of this review of Ellmann's biography printed as an author's offprint. Near fine. Extrait des Lettres Nouvelles IX:13 unknown books
Carbondale: SIU Press 1959. Stapled printed wrappers. First separate printing of this brief note about Leon with a selection from his writings issued as an offprint from A JAMES JOYCE MISCELLANY 2nd series. Very good. SIU Press unknown books
New York: Viking 1958. Gilt green cloth bevelled edges. Slight offset from promotional material to front endsheet modest flecking to cloth sizing in a few places but a nice copy without dust jacket as issued. First edition advance issue. Edited by Richard Ellmann. One of 375 specially bound copies issued as a 1957 Christmas gift from the publisher. Review slip and flyer laid in. Viking hardcover books
Ithaca: Cornell 1962. Cloth. Portrait. First edition US issue of the preliminary text printed and bound in the UK. Edited by George H. Healey. About fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few nicks and scrapes at the lower edge. Cornell hardcover books
London: Faber 1944. Gilt brick-colored cloth. Fore-corners lightly bumped foxing to edges and faintly to endsheets otherwise a very good copy in a lightly foxed dust jacket with several small chips. First British edition. With the handsome small bookplate of poet / publisher James Laughlin who published the first edition under his New Directions imprint. Levin's Preface to this edition singles out Laughlin for special thanks. Faber hardcover books
London: Oxford University Press 1961. Cloth. Frontis. First edition. Fine in near fine U.S. dust jacket with mended closed tear. Oxford University Press hardcover books
New York: The James Joyce Society 1957. Printed wrappers. Folding frontis. First edition. Wrappers lightly sunned and soiled tiny adhesion scar on rear wrapper otherwise very good. The James Joyce Society unknown books
Cambridge: Harvard 1957. Cloth. Pencil note on front endsheet see below otherwise near fine in very good tanned and slightly soiled and nicked dust jacket. First edition. Introduction by Denis Johnston. The neatly almost calligraphically written note is signed simply 'R.W." and comments on Manning's background at the Abbey and productions of the play. Harvard hardcover books
Sewanee: Reprinted from the July Number of The Sewanee Review 1953. 6pp. Printed wrappers. First separate printing. Nicely inscribed by Mason on the front wrapper. Wrappers a bit dust tanned otherwise very good or better. Reprinted from the July Number of The Sewanee Review unknown books
Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press 1981. Cloth. First US edition comprised of Irish sheets. Obtrusive ownership inscription on pastedown otherwise fine in dust jacket with residue of price sticker on front flap. Univ. of CA Press hardcover books
Tulsa: Supplement to JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY XXXVIII:3 1991. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Introduction by Robert Spoo. First printing in this format. Fine. Supplement to JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY XXXVIII:3 unknown books
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