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1979réf. 2222448First edition deluxe issue. Octavo. Title page in red and black. Full gilt stamped red morocco. No dust jacket as issue. Fine as new copy. 44 pages. #42 of 50 signed by Oates on colophon. Lord John Press hardcover books
1908réf. 10952London: Cassell 1908. First edn. Profusely illustrated with colored plates and photographs. Quarto. 2 vol. pp. 772. A very nice set bound in half leather little rubbed. The authors were fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Cassell unknown books
1984réf. 61602Berkeley Los Angeles & London: University of California Press 1984. First edition folio pp. iii-229 1; illustrated throughout some in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker with his ownership signature and date on front free endpaper in red ink. "The Speculum humanae salvationis occupies a unique place in the history of the book. It is the only medieval work that exists in manuscripts in blockbooks and in sixteen later incunabula" jacket blurb. University of California Press unknown books
1972réf. 618753Toronto: Atkinson College 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume 1 Number 1 - Volume 2 Number 1. The first five issues. Octavos. Approximately 800 pages. Light wear and three spines sunned a near fine run of this Canadian literary magazine. Contributions by Seamus Heaney Margaret Atwood Jerzy Kosinski Yehuda Amichai Edmund Wilson published right after his death John Montague Joyce Carol Oates and many others. Atkinson College unknown books
1981réf. 589002London: Bananas / Abigail Mozley 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Number 26. Slim quarto. Illustrated. Light wear and a bit of tanning near fine. Signed by Heaney in blue ink at his contribution. Prints the first appearance of Seamus Heaney's poem "A Summer Night" Brandes & Durkan C333 with additional contributions by Thomas Kinsella Seamus Deane Richard Murphy Anne Devlin Francis Stuart and John Banville as well as "Queen of the Night" a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. Bananas / Abigail Mozley unknown books
1972réf. 546997Iowa City Iowa: Steve Toth 1972. Unbound. Fine. Broadsheet. Edited by Steve Toth. One 8½" x 11" sheet mimeographed on both sides. Illustrated. Folded twice for mailing else fine in the original envelope sent from "MATCHBOOK. Joyce Holland Dave Morice ed. c/o Al Buck" roughly opened at the top. Features poems by Tim Hildebrand Joyce Holland Dave Morice John Sjoberg and George Mattingly as well as couple of unattributed illustrations. OCLC seems to locate no copies. Steve Toth unknown books
1918réf. 517072London: The Egoist 1918. Softcover. Good. No. 2 Vol. V February 1918. Editor: Harriet Shaw Weaver. Assistant Editor: T.S. Eliot. Quarto. 18-32pp. Stapled wrappers. The wrappers are detached as are most of the pages but the issue is complete edgewear with chips and tears to the brittle paper and toning a good only copy. Features the poem "Apathy" by Richard Aldington "On the Intellectual Plane" by Horace B. Samuel and more including an excerpt from "Il Marzocco" an Italian review of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce translated from the Italian into English by Joyce himself Slocum and Cahoon C52. The review is quite positive and enthusiastic one passage reads in part "His book is not alone an admirable work of art and thought; it is also a cry of revolt: it is the desire of a new artist to look upon the world with other eyes to bring to the front his individual theories and to compel a listless public to reflect that there are another literature and another esthetic apprehension beyond those foisted upon us. The Egoist unknown books
1961réf. 511166Milano: Lerici & Scheiwiller 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. First Italian edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound Some Testimonies. Narrow octavo. 15pp. printed on very thin paper. Text in Italian. Stapled self-wrappers. A bit of creasing at the spine base front cover with a small area of very slight discoloration and two tiny foredge nicks a near fine of a delicate pamphlet. Prints remarks on Pound's Cantos by James Joyce T. S. Eliot Ford Madox Ford William Carlos Williams Ernest Hemingway Archibald MacLeish and Allen Tate. First published in English nearly 30 years prior; Pound had been in Italy for about three years when this pamphlet was published almost certainly to advertise the Italian-language publication of his first 30 cantos translated by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz and published by Lerici & Scheiwiller the same year. Reportedly Lerici & Scheiwiller were the first to publish Pound Langston Hughes Antonio Machado Norman Mailer W.H. Auden Henry Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer in Italian. Very uncommon. Lerici & Scheiwiller unknown books
1995réf. 45876Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. Very Good. Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. First Edition. Quarto 25cm; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 168pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit rubbed and worn with long crease across upper cover contents clean and sound. Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by Brooks on title page. Inaugural issue of this literary journal which ran from 1995 through 2004. Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing unknown books
1974réf. 140940971London: Audio Arts Eo Epso Ltd. 1974. First Edition. Cassette in case with folded J-card. Vol. 1 No. 3. NM. Contents: A1 -Margaret Henry "A Question Of James Joyce" A2 -James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake "Anna Livia Plurabella" B -Mark Hayman "Recollections Of C.K. Ogden And Others"; interviewer - William Furlong Audio Arts was a very early cassette magazine launched in the UK in 1973 by Barry Barker and sculptor William Furlong to spread the radical ideas of contemporary artists and composers. Issues are rare. Audio Arts (Eo Epso Ltd.) unknown books
1936réf. 57400London: Gollancz 1936. First Edition. First impression. Octavo 20cm. Black cloth titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp. Faint foxing to text block edges else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper priced 8/6 net on spine panel; slightly dusty and toned with a ca. 1/2" closed tear on rear panel and a shade darkened on spine still Very Good. Cary's third published book based on his own service as a colonial administrator in Nigeria. Gollancz unknown books
1955réf. 423663New York: Columbia University 1955. Softcover. Very Good. Single issue. Winter 1954-1955. 67pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers lightly age-toned and stained internally holes in wrapper near staples small pen mark on rear wrapper still very good. Many interesting literary contributions including Allen Ginsberg's "Last Stanzas in Denver". "Words to a Young Man" by John McAlpin Berryman. "Bureaucrats: Diggers" by Tom Merton. "Serenade and Old Songs" by John Erskine. "Identity" by Mark Van Doren. Other contributors are: Brander Matthews Joyce Kilmer Alfred A. Knopf Guy Sommerville Paul W. Gallico Henry Morton Robinson Irwin Edman Mortimer J. Adler Whittaker Chambers Millen Brand H. Lloyd Frankenberg Ben Maddow Corey H. Ford William Y. Tindall Clifton Fadiman Jacques Martin Barzun Lionel Trilling Eleazar Lipsky Milton Rugoff Herman Wouk James A. Wechsler Ralph de Toledano Daniel G. Hoffman Herb Gold Robert Laguardia John Hollander Richard Howard and Stephen Orgel. Columbia University] unknown books
2021réf. 54796Pennsylvania: Daniel Herman 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Small Oblong Quarto. 319 1pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with red and white lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated half-title signed by Trevor Goring here. "Storyboards The Unseen Art of Hollywood is a retrospective and celebration of the visual art and artists who bring the script to the screen working from the age of charcoal to computers. It's been our pleasure to bring attention to this underappreciated art created for the film industry one of the most influential art forms of our time." Introduction Contains chapters on Dorothea Holt Redmond one of the most talented illustrators in the movie industry and the various types of movies historical films Western war movies drama crime action adventure comedy & musical romance fantasy horror science fiction comic book adaptation and computer generated images. Epilog and short biographical chapters on Trevor Goring and Joyce Kaskey Goring. Beautifully illustrated with striking color and b/w reproductions of storyboards throughout. Among the movies illustrated in the volume are Quo Vadis Gladiator The Passion of the Christ. The Misfits El Dorado Open Range Saving Private Ryan A Tree Grows in Brooklyn To Kill a Mockingbirds The Boston Strangler Jurassic Park Deep Impact High Anxiety 1941 Miracle in the Train The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader Red Riding Hood Blade Runner Rise of the Planet of the Apes Cowboys & Aliens Beowulf among many others. Daniel Herman hardcover books
1949réf. 19400London: Faber and Faber 1949. Cloth. Good /Good . A presentable serviceable copy of the 1949 4th edition. Tight and Good in its light-red cloth with an intriguing full-page inscription on the front free endpaper light offsetting along the spine the pastedowns and the endsheets and mild spotting to the fore-edge. And in a bright price-intact Good example of the chocolate-brown dustjacket with roughly 1/3 to 40% of the spine missing and very light chipping and creasing along the edges. Octavo 628 pgs. of text written between 1922-1939 as stated at the end of the text 18 pgs. at the rear of "Corrections of Misprints in FINNEGANS WAKE Faber and Faber unknown books
1972réf. 46108Garden City NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company Inc 1972. Very Good. Garden City NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company Inc. 1972. First Paperback Edition. Signed by Joyce Ladner without inscription at title page. Mass market paperback 17.75cm; photo-illustrated wraps; 296pp. advertisements. Wear and creasing to edges and joints; soiling and light spotting to rear wrap and edges of text block; pages unmarked; a Very Good autographed copy of sociologist civil rights activist and editor Joyce Ladner's first book a study of black womanhood. Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1967réf. 31708New York: The Vanguard Press 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press 1967. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; viii440pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with dark green and white lettering to spine; red topstain. Jacket rubbed and creased along edges with a few shallow closed tears sunning to spine and scuffs and tears to head and tail; scattered foxing to verso with tape reinforcement at head. Boards faded along edges with some scuffs and dust-soiling to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. A bit of fading to topstain. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in at front. Oates' second novel — the first in her Wonderland Quartet and a finalist for the 1968 National Book Award. The Vanguard Press unknown books
1924réf. 462872New York: B. W. Huebsch 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second American edition. 154pp. Quarter green cloth gilt brown paper boards with embossed and gilt titles. Small attractive bookplate of Robert J. Lilley light age-toning on the boards near fine lacking the dustwrapper. The second edition was printed in very small numbers. B. W. Huebsch hardcover books
1955réf. 615981New York: The Viking Press 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sixth printing. Small quarto. 643pp. Some bumping at the spine ends near fine in very good dust jacket with toning to the spine and front panel scrap with a tear to the edge of the spine and small nicks and tears to the edges. The Viking Press hardcover books
1955réf. 318453New York: Viking 1955. sixth. hardcover. very good/very good-. 4 643 pages. Thick 8vo gilt-lettered red cloth d.w. edgeworn and with a few chips. New York: Viking 1955. Sixth printing. Cloth lightly worn at extremities still very good in very good- dust wrapper. This edition includes a list of corrections of misprints as prepared by the author after publication of the first edition. Viking unknown books
1955réf. 577466New York: The Viking Press 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sixth printing. Page edges lightly toned near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and rear panel and a chip and tear at the crown. The Viking Press hardcover books
1950réf. 279987Paris: Gallimard 1950. First. hardcover. near fine. Traduit par J.S. Bradley. 16mo cream boards with Art Deco design in brown black & gilt by Paul Bonet. Paris: Gallimard 1950. First French edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. An attractive book. Gallimard unknown books
1932réf. 512072London: Faber and Faber 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. 12mo. 45pp. Paper-covered boards. Covers are moderately soiled and faded a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A37. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1957réf. 11760London: Faber and Faber 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Chipping to dj clipped dj to inner flap closed tears minimal shelfwear evenly toned throughout particularly on ffep else very tight bright and unmarred. Gray cloth boards. 8vo. 437pp. Illus. b/w. Faber and Faber hardcover books
réf. 11939Hardcover/Wrappers. Very Good/VG. Hardcover/Wrappers. Books include. Signed by Oliver Sacks. The Poems of John Donne by Sir Herbert Grierson 1950. DJ clipped and chipped. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Reprint 1943. DJ clipped and chipped. THe Poetical Works of Robert Browning in two volumes with portraits 1943. Reprint. No dj. Receipt laid in. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections a shipping surcharge may be calculated upon packing. Any shipping cost increase will be submitted for approval before the order is processed.". Various states of wear mostly bumped corners scuffing to edges toning overall. Moderately shelfworn chipped and toned with elements of dampstaining. Mostly 8vo. illus b/w. All signed or stamped by former owner dj -dj wrappers. hardcover books
1970réf. 41276London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1970. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. xiii 385 xi 387-821pp. Original illustrated dustjackets over blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The impact of Joyce's writing has provoked an overwhelming quantity of critical response. Professor Deming has selected for these two volumes as many divergent points of view as possible to provide a near-complete spectrum of the contemporary reaction to Joyce." Publisher. With contributions by George Russell Arthur Symons Italo Svevo Ezra Pound W. B. Yeats H.G. Wells among many others as well as numerous published reviews of Joyce's works. DJs with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Minor discoloration of bindings along edges. DJs and binding in overall good to good interiors in very good condition. Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover books
