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1989rif. 212892New Orleans LA: The Contemporary Arts Center 1989. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 4 through April 1 1989. Features a text by Lew Thomas a statement by Joyce Neimanas and with the text of an interview of Heinecken by Clarie Peeps. Includes images by Robert Heinecken Lutz Bacher Warren Neidich and Joyce Neimanas. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some bumping/creasing to the bottom right corner.Includes a laid in handwritten and signed letter from Joyce Neimanas to a gallerist. Uncommon. The Contemporary Arts Center unknown books
1967rif. 578685London: Universal Edition 1967. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Prints musical settings by Hugh Woods for three separate chorus: The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes; Sirens by James Joyce from Ulysses and All We by Edwin Muir. Universal Edition unknown books
1951rif. 15928New York: The Viking Press 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Limited to 1900 copies. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket unclipped $5.00 unevenly toned a closed tear at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter cream cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain clean internally. The Viking Press hardcover books
1984rif. 60457Columbus: The Thurber House. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. 1/100 bound copies total edition was 600. Nice inscription on title page from Rosemary Joyce. Nice condition. . The Thurber House hardcover books
1969rif. 009291New York: The Vanguard Press 1969. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First US Edition First Printing of the author's 6th book the 1970 National Book Award winner. Fine in Very Good Plus dust jacket 1/2" closed tear bottom edge rear panel bump with small hole an inch up along rear spine fold light rubbing at edges. The Vanguard Press Hardcover books
1933rif. 58387The Hague Holland: The Servire Press 1933. First Edition. Large octavo pictorial wrappers cover art by Hans Arp 179 pages plus ads illustrated reproducing work by Hans Arp. Contains the first appearance of Joyce Not in Slocum & Calhoon . Covers little loose toned and nicked at extremities. This was writer Dudley Fitts copy with his signature on the cover. A very good copy. from Wikipedia: "Transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist expressionist and Dada art and artists. It was founded in 1927 by poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald and published in Paris. They were later assisted by editors Elliot Paul April 1927- March 1928 Robert Sage October 1927-Fall 1928 and James Johnson Sweeney June 1936-May 1938. The literary journal was intended as an outlet for experimental writing and featured modernist surrealist and other linguistically innovative writing and also contributions by visual artists critics and political activists. It ran until spring 1938. A total of 27 issues were produced. It was distributed primarily through Shakespeare and Company the Paris bookstore run by Sylvia Beach The Servire Press unknown books
1936rif. 15069ADVANCE COPY THE AFRICAN WITCH Morrow 1936 first American edition very good to very good plus in wraps. Advance reading copy with the publication date and price lightly stamped on the f.e.p. Scarce thus. The authors most sought after title. Morrow paperback books
1980rif. 10626LECTURES ON ULYSSES Bruccoli / Clark 1980 first edition as new in like glassine dust-wrapper. 1/500 copies indeed the entire print run consisting of a facsimile of the authors manuscript. Bruccoli Clark unknown books
1936rif. 52662London: Gollancz 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm.; black boards embossed in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp.; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; spine ends gently pushed; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with faint soil to front panel and light toning to the jacket spine; Near Fine. Author's third novel set in Nigeria between the wars. Gollancz unknown books
1942rif. 130419Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final script for the 1942 film. A lighthearted drama centering on a female stamp collector obsessed with a government mail sack of undelivered letters that has turned up after missing for 50 years. The AFI Catalog notes that all the title cards for the film's opening credits are handwritten on envelopes postmarked 1889. A studio press release asserted that producer Ralph Dietrich got the idea for the film from a newspaper story concerning "the discovery in Philadelphia some months ago of a mail bag apparently the loot of a robbery some seventy-five years before." The story reported that the mail would be delivered by the post office to the addressees or their heirs. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 70 and production No. 768 dated April 1 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated April 1 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Braus. 122 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/1/42 and 5/1/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1990rif. 31433Toronto: Exile Editions 1990. Very Good /Very Good . Toronto: Exile Editions 1990. First Edition. Slim octavo 23 cm; 188pp. Publisher's red illustrated dust jacket with price intact $23.95. Boards full bound in bright red cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Black endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed rubbed and bumped with superficial scratches to surface. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends with minor bowing inward to boards. Binding slightly cocked but firm. Top edge toned and dust soiled. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket. Bookplate signed by Oates loosely laid in at half title. A collection of sixteen 16 short stories all of which first appeared in the Canadian literary magazine Exile. Exile Editions unknown books
1920rif. 140941506New York: George H. Doran Company 1920. Fine/Very Good. Early printing but not first with "Printed in the United States of America" on copyright page. 75 pp. Publisher's brown cloth ruled in blind with title labels on front and spine. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with some closed tears and creases sunning to spine. The bestselling poetry collection with its famous titular poem which begins "I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree" and a great dust jacket design that can only be described as a proto-psychedelic barber's pole. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1945rif. 141104Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1945 film. Remake of the 1934 Universal film "Advice to the Lovelorn" that also starred Lee Tracy. Both films were based on West's novel "Miss Lonelyhearts." Lee Tracy plays a radio announcer born with the inability to shut up both a blessing in terms of finding fame in the radio business and a curse in terms of constantly talking over his singer girlfriend while she is performing. He is eventually demoted to the position of writing a newspaper column for the lovelorn. 22 x 28 inches folded. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1975rif. 162161N.p.: Cinema International 1975. Six vintage lobby cards for the 1975 French film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An experimental film loosely based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" about a young woman in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks refuge from a violent civil war in an abandoned château. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 571. Cinema International unknown books
1972rif. 578948Cambridge Massachusetts: Pomegranate Press 1972. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Illustrated by Karyl Klopp. Measuring approximately 11" x 16½". Fine. One of 250 numbered copies. Pomegranate Press unknown books
1972rif. 315684Cambridge Massachusetts: Pomegranate Press 1972. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Broadside. 11" x 16.5". Illustrated by Karyl Klopp. Tiny spot in top margin still easily fine. One of 250 numbered copies. A very nice copy of an elusive broadside. Pomegranate Press unknown books
1968rif. 1406462New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 308 pages. In Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Spine black red and white with white lettering. Dust jacket has moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers and shelfwear to edges price uncut: "$5.95". Shelfwear to rear cover impacting author photo. Boards full bound in red cloth with shelfwear to edges of boards and black discoloration to head and tail of spine and upper edges of boards. Text block has mild age-toning to exterior edges mild scuffing to upper and lower edges and very minor foxing to fore edge. Flat signed by author on first free front end paper. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1406462. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Vanguard Press, Inc hardcover books
1993rif. 404522New York: Dutton 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a small smudge. Inscribed by the author to Herb Yellin who published several limited editions by Oates at his Lord John Press. Basis for the 1996 film starring Hedy Burress Angelina Jolie and Jenny Lewis. Dutton hardcover books
1987rif. 565904Northridge California: Lord John Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarter morocco and marbled papercovered boards. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies specially bound and Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1973rif. 31022London: Victor Gollancz 1973. First UK edition first prnt. Signed by Oates on the title page. Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates' third book second story collection. Less commonly available signed in the UK edition than the US edition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Victor Gollancz Hardcover books
1950rif. JJ047Milan: Officine Grafiche "Esperia" 1950 Translated by Stanislaus Joyce. First edition first printing. One of 1600 copies 1500 of which were for New Directions this being number 1307. Publisher's stiff cream wrappers lettered in black; original pictorial dust jacket with Man Ray's 1922 photo of Joyce head in hand to front panel and a photo of Svevo looking at the camera to rear panel. Near fine book with toning to page margins and to spine and spine ends lightly wrinkled; very good dust jacket with very shallow chipping to spine ends and light wear to edges and a tiny closed tear to top of rear panel. Overall a sturdy copy of this quaint Christmas keepsake. This volume presents the newly-translated text of Italo Svevo's heartwarming and thoughtful 1927 lecture on James Joyce. Svevo considers Joyce's experience in Trieste where the two first met while examining Joyce's body of work particularly Ulysses. These friends met in 1907 when Ettore Schmitz-better known by his pseudonym Italo Svevo-took English classes from Joyce an expatriate 20 years his junior. The two developed a friendship largely built upon mutual support of each other's literary endeavors. It was Joyce who urged Svevo to continue writing and Svevo who served as a primary model for Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. With the help of Joyce and his new literary fame Svevo's most celebrated work La Coscienza di Zeno was published in 1923. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Milan: Officine Grafiche "Esperia" paperback books
1933rif. 912London: Faber and Faber 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. First U.K. edition after the original Shakespeare and Company edition in 1927. Near fine in blue paper-covered wraps priced at 1/- net lightly sunned. Square and firmly bound with string a bookplate from William Ayer Peters affixed to the front flap. A collection of thirteen poems which contains the popularly-anthologized "Tilly" "A flower given to my daughter" "On the beach at Fontana" and "Bahnhofstrasse. Faber and Faber paperback books
1972rif. 1405801Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1972. Hardcover. Octavo Four volumes only. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jackets. Spines are blue with orange print vols. 1-2 or brown with white print vols. 3-4. Dust jackets have light edge wear. Prices unclipped: “£3.25 net” vols. 1-2 “£5.00 net” “£7.50 net”. Boards in blue cloth. Text blocks of vols. 1-2 have bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portraits plates genealogical table facsimiles portraits some folded. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. 1797-1792 Letters 1-39 1972; ISBN 0198114982 lxxv 261 pages — Vol. 2. Courtship and Marriage 1793. Letters 40-121 1972; ISBN 019812421X xxxv 256 pages — Vol. 3. Great Bookham 1793-1797 Letters 122-250 1973; ISBN 098124198 368 pages — Vol. 4. West Humble 1797-1801 Letters 251-422 1973; ISBN 0198124325 581 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-volume Section. 1405801. FP New Rockville Stock. The Clarendon Press hardcover books
1930rif. 012599Faber & Faber 1930. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy First Edition Criterion Miscellany No 15 Light Staining to Brown Boards Name Mark Out on Front Paste Down. Excellent Copy. Faber & Faber Hardcover books
1978rif. 018332G.P.Putnam's Sons 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation & Association. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$8.95 On Flap.First Edition.Rare Presentation Copy & Association To Great Bookseller Burt Britton.Johnson Was Jack Kerouac Girlfriend. Excellent Copy. G.P.Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
