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1979ref. 55041Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1979. Limited Signed Edition. Full-Leather. A Fine Limited edition signed by Joyce Carol Oates; Winner of the National Book Award Them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. A novel about class race and the horrific glassy sparkle of urban life them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy riotous Detroit slums. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded sewn in pages and ribbon marker simply superb quality Franklin Library at its best; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; xx 601 5 pages; Signed by Author . Franklin Library hardcover books
1994ref. 17626New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525938362 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel tells the story of a woman who is forced to reckon with the choices she's made in her life. After a life of privilege and ease she is faced with the consequences of her choices as she battles cancer. What I Lived For is a compelling and thought-provoking book that will stay with you long after you finish it.; 8vo . Dutton hardcover books
1975ref. 9001490Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1984ref. 9671Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Privately printed and personally signed by the author for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Bound in publisher's original brown composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Franklin Library hardcover books
1995ref. 193536Austin Texas: University Of Texas Press 1995. Hardcover. VG light scuffs to boards; edge-wear to lower boards. spine ends crinkled. light rubbing to corners. dustjacket scuffed & smudged; light wear. black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 284 pgs w/ bw illustrations 12 color plates. glossy illustrated dustjacket w/ color illustrations. "Describes the cave site of Naj Tunich in the southeastern Petén region of Guatemala. Includes an analysis of the cave painting style and iconography and with Barbara MacLeod of the hieroglyphic texts that accompany some of them. A survey of cave paintings from other parts of the Maya world and elsewhere in Mesoamerica provides a broad comparative context"--WorldCat. University Of Texas Press hardcover books
1972ref. 003464New York: Peter H. Wyden 1972. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. First Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Dr. Joyce Brothers on front endpage "To June Miller- warm good wishes. I hope I can call you a friend. Joyce". At bottom edge front endpage in different ink from the inscription is the address "305 E. 86th St. N.Y.C. 10028" Near Fine top edge lightly dusted in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with small dampstains along top and bottom edges. Peter H. Wyden Hardcover books
1944ref. 60181New Directions 1944. First edition. 8vo pp. 234. Paper over boards stamped in gilt pulled at the top off the spine. Poet Barbara Howes' copy with her signature on the endpaper and bookplate laid in. New Directions unknown books
1975ref. 12046BITCHES & SAD LADIES Harper's 1975 first edition some soiling to covers else vg in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Scarce thus with contributions by: Joyce Carol Oates Cynthia Ozick Ann Beattie Mary Betts Edna O'Brien Mary Sexton Grace Paley Ursula Leguin Anne Godust-wrapper in et.al. Edited by Pat Rotter. Harper's paperback books
2017ref. 168508Santa Barbara CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2017. Hardcover. VG. Beige cloth with red and white paper illustration black lettering on spine. 183 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Published for the exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 17-Decemer 31 2017 and the Phoenix Art Museum March 24-July 15 2018. Santa Barbara Museum of Art hardcover books
1987ref. 184978Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press 1987. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Age toning to pages. Text is otherwise clear. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dj with red lettering bw illustration mylar cover; v 320 pp bw map. "There is by now a considerable academic literature concerned with matters such as the development of the labour process labour history and the sociology of work."- dj. Contents: The historical meanings of work: an introduction / Patrick Joyce -- Mythical work: workshop production and the compagnonnages of eighteenth-century France / Michael Sonenscher -- Women's work mechanisation and the early phases of industrialisation in England / Maxine Berg -- The property of skill in the period of manufacture / John Rule -- 'L'ouvrière! Mot impie sordide . ': women workers in the discourse of French political economy 1840-1860 / Joan W. Scott -- The languages of factory reform in Britain c.1830-1860 / Robert Gray -- Time to work time to live: some aspects of work and the re-formation of class in Britain 1850-1880 / Keith McClelland -- 'A time to every purpose': an essay on time and work / Richard Whipp -- The 'work ethic' and 'leisure' activity: the hot rod in post-war America / H.F. Moorhouse. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1958ref. 15491New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition 8vo pp. xxii 266; 2 portraits on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine copy in the jacket. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings preserved by Stanislaus" jacket blurb. Viking Press unknown books
1983ref. 017458Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Small tear at the bottom of the front cover; slight strip of sunning to the front edge. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in tall 10-3/4" printed green wraps. First Prize went to Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing." Publication date and price in ink on the front cover. Doubleday & Company, Inc. paperback books
1958ref. 31276NY: Viking 1958. First edition. xxii 266 pp w/index. Topstain dull else near fine in full green buckram with some foxing to the one b&w plate and opposing leaves. No dust jacket as issued. 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
1967ref. 89690NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Light soiling to top and bottom edge else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read. NY: New Directions unknown books
1950ref. 5982New York: Gotham Book Mart 1950. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. A Proceeding of the James Joyce Society delivered at the Meeting of November 18 1948. Minor shelf/edge wear touch of sun at the spine booksellers stamp at the rear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps black ink lettering. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. b/w plates. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
2003ref. 420208Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press 2003. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Glossy pictorial self-wrappers. Fine. Affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by Irving Adler. University of the West Indies Press unknown books
1952ref. 160124London: Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film noir. A woman and her younger sister flee London after their father is murdered by a dictator. When she returns seven years later she comes across her old lover who is planning to kill that same dictator. Audrey Hepburn's first significant role. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some wear to the finish and some minor creasing along the edges. Grant UK. Selby UK. Selby US. Spicer UK. Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures unknown books
1993ref. 104226Chapel Hill NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1993. First edition. Her first novel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Barrett to Oprah Winfrey: "For Oprah Winfrey Thank you for all you do to help educate people to the realities of emotional illness. Sincerely Joyce Durham Barrett July 4 1994." A terrific association copy. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill unknown books
1981ref. 127468Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Bruce Dern a psychologically unstable tattoo artist becomes obsessed with a model at a photo shoot determined to use her body as a canvas for "his masterpiece." Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with light creasing pinholes to the corners a cello-tape repair to the top center crease and a contemporary label obscuring the rating. Grant US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1994ref. 57855NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994. First Edition third printing. Inscribed "Warm wishes" by Brothers on the front endpaper. 8vo. boards in dust jacket; 255 pages. Fine covers nice; contents clean & tight; very nice d/j. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1995ref. 95163San Diego CA: Taggerzine Specials 1995. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine copy in printed self-wrappers. Inscribed by Farley who has also signed each poem he wrote. OCLC locates just one copy. Taggerzine Specials unknown books
1953ref. 80109London: Michael Joseph 1953. First edition. 286 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Cary on the title page. London: Michael Joseph unknown books
1961ref. 505466Texas: The Texas Quarterly 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Small quarto. 11pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Wraps with a bit of soil and wear near fine. Written for Cary's novel A Fearful Joy as the opening chapter it was abandoned when the author decided it did not fit into the finished book. "Reprinted from The Texas Quarterly. Special Issue: Britain 2 Autumn 1961. The Texas Quarterly unknown books
1881ref. RCROWIL00araJuvenile Instructor Office 1881. Very Good. Crocheron Augusta Joyce. Wild Flowers of Deseret. Salt Lake City Utah: Juvenile Instructor Office 1881. 240pp. 8vo. Dark red pebbled leather with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with rubbing. Endpages have light water damage to bottom. Previous owner's name written on front free endsheet. Title page is torn from binding and laid in. Juvenile Instructor Office hardcover books
1970ref. 611325New York: World Publishing Company 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 247pp. Fine in bright blue and purple boars in near fine lightly toned dust jacket. A 32-year-old woman with four ex-husbands "a Jew a Protestant a Catholic and a Negro" suddenly find herself ignored by all the men in her life including her father. Craziness ensures. Uncommon in this condition. World Publishing Company hardcover books
