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1974ref. 576426Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Blue Cloth. Fine in an about fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket with slight rubbing. Autographed edition limited to 50 copies. Black Sparrow supplements 13 to 24 bound together and Signed by the authors at their contributions. Work by Larry Eigner Robert Creeley Bobbie Louise Hawkins Michael McClure Tom Clark Clayton Eshleman Joyce Carol Oates Robert Kelly Diane Wakoski Gerard Malanga Antonin Artaud Jerome Rothenberg. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1941ref. 148690Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 690 and copy No. 140 both rubber stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. John T. Bromley Joseph Allen a young man from high society is physically humiliated by a prizefighter William Haade before his socialite sweetheart Jenny Killian Brenda Joyce. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a rematch. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 140 and production No. 690 dated OCT. 23 1941. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 23 1941 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Walter Bullock. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/27/41 and 11/11/41. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971ref. 141803Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1971. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film. The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet" preceded by "Student Nurses" 1970 and followed by"Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. Also the second film released by Corman's New World Picutres. Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded. Very Good plus with minor starting the intersections of the folds and light soil. New World Pictures unknown books
1918ref. 32085NY: Huebsch 1918. First American edn. 8vo pp. 154. Bound in cloth backled boards end papers foxed a very good tight copy. Slocum & Calhoon 15. Published the same day as the British Edition and likely in very small numbers as the publisher stated in 1921 that only 388 copies had sold. The play was staged unsuccessfully in Munich in the year of its publication but not performed in England until 1926 by which time Joyce was already widely recognized as a major literary figure. Huebsch unknown books
1958ref. JJ048London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1958 First unlimited edition eighth printing 'Cheap Edition" to dust jacket flap. Publisher's green cloth with the Homeric bow device designed by Eric Gill stamped in blind to front board spine lettered in gilt; in the original pale green dust jacket lettered in black with the Homeric bow on the spine with an advertisement for James Joyce by Herbert Gorman on the rear panel. Very good book with moderate spotting to first few pages and edges of text block boards square and spine bright; very good or better unclipped dust jacket with top edge lightly worn upper and lower edges of flaps somewhat faded and very faint spotting to right edge of front panel barely noticeable. Overall a crisp and bright copy of Joyce's masterpiece. Considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature Ulysses was first published serially in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 at which time copies of the magazine were seized and the magazine's publishers were taken to trial due to the sexually explicit nature of the novel. Because of the controversy surrounding Ulysses Joyce was unable to find a publisher for the book until his friend Sylvia Beach the American owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris agreed to publish it. The stream-of-consciousness novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus through Dublin on an ordinary day June 16 1904-notably the same day that Joyce first went on a date with Nora Barnacle who would later become his wife. The book is heavily fragmented and allusive with a structure that loosely parallels Homer's The Odyssey. Regarding the book's complexity Joyce said "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant and that's the only way of ensuring one's immortality.". First Unlimited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
1980ref. 404542New York: Albondocani Press 1980. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in marbled self wrappers. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Copy letter Y of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Albondocani Press unknown books
1974ref. 31042NY: Vanguard Press 1974. First edition first prnt. Review Copy with the publisher's slip and glossy illustrated announcement card laid-in. Signed by Oates on the front free endpage. Cloth spine ends with faint beginning toning not immediately apparent and dustjacket flap edges with beginning toning. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates' second published volume of criticism. Discusses Beckett James Lawrence Mailer Plath et al. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Vanguard Press Hardcover books
1981ref. 582604Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewart 1981. Hardcover. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. Octavo. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Fine. Copy letter B of 26 lettered hardbound copies Signed by the author. There were also 100 numbered copies bound in wrappers. William B. Ewart hardcover books
1977ref. 583279Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Slight rubbing on bottom edge of boards else fine in fine acetate dust jacket. Copy 11 of 60 copies Signed with an original ink drawing by the author. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1987ref. 404445Northridge California: Lord John Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Green cloth. Fine. Copy number 1 of 150 copies Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1976ref. 577564Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper in about fine slipcase. This is one of 50 numbered copies handbound by Earle Gray Signed by Oates. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1991ref. 1070727NY: Dutton 1991. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Oates on the half-title page. "to Gregg Joyce Carol Oates." Afterword by Oates. Small scuff on the bottom edge; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Among the scarcer Oates titles especially signed and/or inscribed. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dutton Hardcover books
1969ref. 148004New York: NR Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play which opened on March 26 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database. Parishioners at St. Thomas' on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues. Set in Westwood Connecticut. Orange Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers with credits for playwright Tom LaBar. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for playwright Tom LaBar. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. NR Productions unknown books
1974ref. 13267Sparrow 13-24 Black Sparrow Press 1974first edition fine in just about fine plastic dust-wrapper. 1/50 copies of these monthly issued pamphlets specially bound in cloth each being SIGNED by the author. The contributors for this volume are Larry Eigner Robert Creeley Bobbie Louise Hawkins Michael McClure Tom Clark Clayton Eshleman Joyce Carol Oates Robert Kelly Diane Wakoski Gerard Malanga Jerome Rothenberg & Antonin Artaud. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1980ref. 11541DARK FORCES Macdonald 1980 first English edition just about fine in fine color pictorial dust-wrapper. Original anthology edited by Kirby McCauley with contributions by Stephen King Ray Bradbury Joyce Carol Oates Robert Bloch Edust-wrapper ard Gorey Ted Sturgeon Robert Aickman Joe Haldeman Gene Wolfe Richard Matheson Manly Wade Wellman Ramsey Campbell Clifford Simak et.al. WORLD FANTASY AWARD winner. This copy SIGNED by contributors Joe Haldeman Ramsey Campbell Lisa Tuttle Dennis Etchison & Karl Edust-wrapper ard Wagner in the year of publication. Macdonald unknown books
1909ref. 508897Dublin / London: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd. / Henry Frowde Oxford University Press 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thick paper issue. Edited by John Cooke. Octavo. 804pp. Green cloth gilt. Owner's early bookplate dated 1915 on front pastedown endpapers a little foxed and crown very slightly worn a very good or better copy. Contains three early poems by James Joyce. This issue printed on heavy stock paper is an unrecorded variant not cited by the bibliographer with the following differences: sheets bulk 1 3/8 inches instead of 9/32 inches top edge gilt instead of all edges gilt lower spine has publisher's name in two lines instead of three cited by Slocum and Cahoon B3. Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd. / Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press hardcover books
1918ref. 27818New York: B. W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Bookplate. Edges slightly rubbed spine just slightly mottled two small nicks on top edge else a fine copy. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1950ref. 285381Paris: Gallimard 1950. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First French edition. Small nick at the base of the spine else near fine in near fine original glassine dustwrapper. Copy number 3 of 1050 numbered copies on Alfama paper. Gallimard unknown books
2022ref. 10997London: Faber & Faber 2022. Fascimile. Hardcover. Fine In Fine Box. Fascimile. Hardcover. "Finnegans Wake is a novel by James Joyce written in 1939. It is considered one of the most complex books in English literature as well as being unique in its experimental writing style. The purpose of the work is to visually display this complexity. Using a classic 1965 edition by Faber and Faber the book was disbound woven and rebound respecting the original order of the pages and preserving the same cover. The new edition consists of 4 volumes covering the four parts and 450 pages of the original edition." Artist Statement Concept and weaving by Ximena Pérez Grobet. Unbinding and rebinding by Poncho Martínez. Assistant Teresa del Junco. The unique copy was placed in 2020 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Before it was sent off Ximena had the work carefully documented leaf by leaf volume by volume. She then sought to have an edition produced that might make the monumental work more accessable to a broader audience. Thus this edition embodies as much as can be captured of the original maintaining the four volumes mirroring Joyce's sections and housed in a pictorial flapped slipcase the inner flap of which contains a printed description of the project. Tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps housed in a matching flapped slipcase. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Numbered limited edition of 300. Signed by the artist. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1934ref. 69989Shanghai China 1934. Two leaves three pages on Joyce's stationery 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. approx. 375 words and an addressed envelope rubber stamped in the upper right corner "State Steamship Co. Shanghai Nov. 10 1934. Received." Accompanied by a printed Christmas card bound with green ribbon and a printed image of a green flag and ribbon for C.P.S. Wenhsing on the cover a printed sentiment on the verso and a black & white snapshot 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. of a ship tipped in. Five other black & white snapshots 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. or slightly smaller are laid in loose each captioned on the verso in Joyce's hand. Joyce writes from the Preventive Cruiser "Wen Hsing" although the return address on the envelope is for the Chinese Maritime Customs Revenue Dept. Customs House Shanghai. The letter to Capt. Dyer of the S.S. General Sherman States Steam Ship Co. Hamilton House Shanghai encloses the Christmas card and several photos Joyce presumes will interest him: "I am sorry I haven't more or better ones but my camera is too big to take around in the motor boat." One image is of the Preventive Cruiser Wen Hsing similar to the tipped in image in the card; two are of traditional Chinese Junks one captioned in some detail as a 5 masted Shantung junk; one of a fortified compound on a hill described on the verso: "we have a guard here as it has been threatened by Pirates;" and one of two captured pirates aboard ship tied up by their wrists and several others lying bleeding on the deck. Joyce goes on to respond to Dyer's questions about obtaining Chinese furniture. He notes that it is not easy to get anything ready-made and that the best recourse is to have articles made to suit. He advises the Captain to put in an order with a local company and provide a sketch of what he wants. He also reports on mutual acquaintances and says he has heard some reassuring words of praise "from uptown" for Capt. Dyer's work which he quotes: "your friend Captain Dyer is in very good repute with the line. Everything seems to go well on his ship." T.W. Joyce an American served with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from Jan. 4 1934 until Jan. 12 1941 according to records of the China Families database of men and women who worked in China between the 1850s and the 1940s sponsored by the University of Bristol. Beginning with the Treaty of Nanking in 1843 British merchants were involved in the opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade and as such were interested in the security of their ships. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service originally established in 1854 as the Imperial Maritime Customs "was a foreign-administered agency of the Chinese government. Across the nearly one hundred years of its existence some 22000 men and women but mostly men from many different nationalities served in the Customs. Half of those listed were Chinese a quarter were British. The rest included French German Japanese Americans Russians Norwegians Italians and many more." The growing international population resulted in the creation of the Shanghai International Settlement an area under international control. Joyce was in Shanghai at a volatile time. Pirates regularly attacked merchant ships along the China coast often boarding as passengers before taking over the boat robbing fellow travelers and escaping with goods and occasionally hostages. One such incident is recorded in June 1934 for the China Navigation Company's merchant ship "Shuntien." In her second voyage she was taken over by pirates who beached her along the coast between Tientsin and Chefoo taking hostages and disappearing inland. Some of the crew left behind were told the pirates were retaliating for the Chinese Maritime Customs having stationed an extra customs cruiser in Shantung Bay interfering with their smuggling routes. see: A.D.Blue's article "Piracy on the China Coast" in the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 5 1965 p. 83 In addition to dealing with piracy the increasing dominance of the Japanese in Shanghai elevated tensions with the Chinese population and resulted in the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and the Battle of Shanghai in that same year. unknown books
1993ref. 50902New York: Laura Geringer / HarperCollins 1993. Fine. Signed limited first edition of this fantastic North Pole adventure specially bound and with original slipcase - with additional Santa sketch and signature by Joyce to front fly leaf. In this beautiful picture book three children from Texas are summoned to the North Pole by SANTA himself for a magical romp. This is a scarce signed special edition of the fanciful story bound in festive red cloth. 11'' x 10.75''. Original red cloth boards with large color pictorial paste-on and gilt lettering to spine. Teal green endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout with two liftable flap letter facsimiles to rear. Typography by Christine Kettner. 21 leaves. Signed by Joyce with Santa sketch dated 94 to front fly leaf. Signed by Joyce to limitation page numbered 188 of 250. In original red cloth slipcase with gilt lettering and color pictorial paste-on. A touch of edgewear. Laura Geringer / HarperCollins unknown books
1969ref. 278343Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Oates' first book of poetry. A beautiful as new copy and scarce thus. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1980ref. 30910Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1980. First edition. Association Copy. Precedes the Dutton trade edition. "Special Message" by Oates for this edition. Illustrated by Joseph Ciardiello. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Inscribed by Oates on the front free endpage. "for John R. Hawkins - with warm regards and very best wishes - Joyce Carol Oates Princeton 6/5/02." Hawkins was Oates' editor for her Franklin Library publications. Boards with a touch of shelfwear and few small rubs not immediately apparent. Unread copy in Near Fine condition. The first of Oates' Gothic Saga series of novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Franklin Library hardcover books
1983ref. 573203Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1983. Hardcover. Fine. First edition hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paste paper boards. Fine. One of 40 hardbound copies Signed by both the author and the designer of the volume Gillian Tyler. This is a presentation copy designated for bookseller and publisher George Bixby. William B. Ewert hardcover books
1977ref. 368306Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Very slightly bowed else about fine in fine acetate dustwrapper. Copy 28 of 60 copies Signed with an original ink drawing by the author. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
