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1926ref. 345989New York / Birmingham England: J. Fischer & Bro 1926. First edition Low B No. 5774 issue. 4 pp. 4to. Unbound folio wrappers with small chip at lower corner circa one-quarter inch in blank margin of corner only former ownership in black ink on top right original seller's stamp at lower right rear cover has one small tear with a small ink blot at upper blank margin toning at upper fore-edge else a very good copy. First edition Low B No. 5774 issue. 4 pp. 4to. A scarce early James Joyce sheet music. OCLC lists a single holding British Library. J. Fischer & Bro unknown books
1944ref. 371012London: Michael Joseph 1944. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brick cloth stamped in silver. Fine in very good plus dust jacket tiny chip at foot of spine panel two short closed tears in front panel. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The great wartime novel by Joyce Carey a dark comedy featuring the adventures of artist Gulley Jimson. Filmed in 1978 with Alec Guiness and Kay Walsh. Michael Joseph unknown books
1985ref. 108769Minneapolis:: Word Weavers. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. 0961560509 . Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout. First edition paperback. Light shelf wear small corner crease to rear cover else very good in oversize pictorial wraps.; 181 pages . Word Weavers, paperback books
1977ref. 55740Portage Indiana: The Compulsive Printer 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 50/75. Quarto. Unpaginated 32 leaves. Original burgundy velvet clamshell with gilt relief serigraph inset housed in red paper-covered clamshell box with black lettering on red label of spine. Signed and numbered in pencil by D'Ambrosio on all three block print title pages and colophon. Here also signed by the printer Elmore Mundell. The Mookse and the Gripes is Joyce's retelling of Aesop's fable of 'The Fox and the Grapes.' It was originally published in 1939. This edition is illustrated with numerous block prints and serigraphs in color and b/w. This edition of The Mookse and the Gripes limited to seventy-five copies and five artist proofs has been set in 18 point Bulmer and printed on Rives BFK paper by the Compulsive Printer Portage Indiana on a No. 3 Vandercook proof press. All serigraphs blockprints and binding by D'Ambrosio. Cover relief-serigraph gilded with 23 K gold. The story is taken from 'Two Tales of Shem and Shaun.' This edition published by Joseph J. D'Ambrosio 3824 Alta Vista Terrace Chicago Illinois 60613. This copy is number 50/75 and signed by the artist and printer. Outer clamshell box with light wear two small closed tear at head and tail of front edge of spine. The Compulsive Printer hardcover books
1916ref. 309232New York: Laurence J.ames Gomme 1916. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Cloth and boards. Very Good. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Signed on ffep "Joyce Kilmer Christmas New York 1916." The earliest copy listed by BAL is at UVa and inscribed Nov. 24 1916. BAL 11108 Laurence J.[ames] Gomme unknown books
1916ref. 020418New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear and spotting to the spine mild wear to corners. Very Good lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Earliest issue without publisher Mitchell Kennerley's plate on the front pastedown. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Father Philbin/from/Joyce Kilmer/Nov. 22 1916/For punctuality/and good conduct." A delightful inscription by the devout poet soldier who was killed at the Second Battle of Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. Laurence J. Gomme hardcover books
1975ref. 185651975. The letters to Stephen Schwartz then editor of the surrealist review "Antinarcissus" 1967-75. touch on her personal life habits health with discussion of surrealism and various surrealists politics poetry etc. Joyce Mansour 1928-1986 born in England to Egyptian-Jewish parents spent her childhood in Cairo and moved to Paris in the 1950s where she became identified with the surrealist movement. unknown books
1977ref. 404426Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Fine in modestly rubbed near fine acetate dustwrapper. Copy number 1 of 3 copies for presentation Signed and with an original ink drawing by the author tipped-in as issued. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1925ref. 29280Paris 1925. 1 "Mon jour terreste diminue" a setting of Paul Claudel's poetry for voice and orchestra. Six pages musical partition in red and black ink with hand written cover and a formal dedication to Adrienne Monnier. Signed at the end and dated June 1920 and 2 "Finale des Choeurs pour un exposition Coloniale. A la mémoire de Joseph Conrad et ses navigateurs" Six pages musical partition in pencil with title and annotations in ink. 350 x 270 mm. Inscribed by Benoist-Méchin to Adrienne Monnier. Before becoming a politicianthe young Benoîst-Méchin tried his hand as a composer. He was not yet 20 years old when he wrote the first piece. At Adrienne Monnier's request he also translated the "Penelope" section of Joyce's "Ulysses" for which he supplied musical notation that Joyce had photographed and used in print. When he was an official in the Vichy government Benoîst-Méchin was able to use his influence to have Sylvia Beach released from internment. unknown books
1939ref. 403164New York: The Business Bourse Publishers 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 324pp. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Frederick at a later date: "To Charles Paoly Sea Isle Hotel Miami Beach with appreciation of the author J. George Frederick President Gourmet Society. New York N.Y. 10/28/83." Frederick's recipes edited by Jean Joyce. A beautiful copy. The Business Bourse, Publishers hardcover books
1930ref. 353066Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. First edition 368 of 500 on pure hand-made Vidalon Royal. 73 1 pp. 4to. Printed wrappers in glassine glassine with loss at bottom rear portion. Fine. First edition 368 of 500 on pure hand-made Vidalon Royal. 73 1 pp. 4to. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake; a fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press unknown books
1997ref. 1400882Dublin: The Lilliput Press 1997. Limited Dublin Edition #496/1000. Hardcover. Octavo 739 pages. In Good plus condition. Housed in publisher's mildly worn black cloth slip case. Bound in publisher's green-blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Staining and light sunning to spine. Fraying to end of bookmark. Enumerated on tipped-in limitation page near front of textblock. Shelved in Case 2. 1400882. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Lilliput Press hardcover books
1997ref. 50725Dublin: The Lilliput Press 1997. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Copy #297. Edited with a Preface by Danis Rose. Introduction by John Banville. Cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine in cloth-covered slipcase. Satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. The first edition of this title produced in Ireland. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Lilliput Press hardcover books
1925ref. 459674New York City: Samuel Roth 1925. Softcover. Very Good. First American printing. Four quarterly issues in printed wrappers. Volume 1 Nos. 1-4 September 1925; December 1925; March 1926; June 1926. Contains the first four of five installments of an unauthorized serial appearance of Finnegans Wake reprinted from European publications. One of 500 copies printed. Small ownership signature of a noted American psychologist in ink on the first page of each issue. The back cover of issue no. 1 also has a small presentation in ink to the psychologist. Toning and light dust soiling to the printed wrappers some creasing and short tears to the spines very good housed in two cloth slipcases covered with brown paper tape. The first four consecutive issues of Samuel Roth's Two Worlds containing a scarce pirated American printing of Finnegans Wake a 20th Century literary highspot. Slocum and Cahoon C65; Burgess 99 and Connolly 100 one of only three titles on both lists. Samuel Roth unknown books
1914ref. 337054New York: Doran 1914. First. hardcover. very good-. 75 pages small 8vo light brown cloth extremes of spine chipped; bookplate. New York: Doran 1914. First Edition. Autographed by Kilmer on the flyleaf. First. or early issue with Cortez for Cortes on p. 22 and copyright page without "printed in the U.S.A." Only one blank terminal leaf instead of four. Doran unknown books
1969ref. 596823New York: Vanguard Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. The author's fourth book and breakthrough novel published in a small print run when the publisher had given up on Oates as a commercially successful author. A superior copy of this National Book Award-winning novel. Vanguard Press hardcover books
2014ref. 9032668London: Folio Society 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. First Folio Society edition. Edited by Rose and O'Hanlon prefaces by Rose O'Hanlon and Deane introduction by Greetham illustrated by Lord with an introduction. Bound in publisher's original blue black and silver illustrated cloth with blue and silver leather spine label. Top edge silver. Comes with black paper-covered board slipcase stamped in illustrated silver. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout by Lord. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. 492 pages plus introductions and plates. Folio Society hardcover books
1947ref. 2580Camp Lee Va. and various locations in and around Fukuoka Japan 1947. Very good. Sixty-four vernacular photographs and five professional photographic postcards between 2.25 x 2 inches and 8.75 x 11 inches plus two documents and a canceled check. Minor occasional wear to images. A small but informative archive of photographs and documents pertaining to Private Fred N. Joyce's service in Occupied Japan at the conclusion of the Second World War. Joyce served in the Third Platoon of the 93rd Quartermaster Training Company stationed at Camp Hakata in Kyushu Japan. The two documents present here include a "Letter of Merit" given to Joyce while in training at Camp Lee Virginia in August 1946 and his "Honorable Discharge" granted in November 1947. Between those dates Joyce spent his short career in Japan documented with over sixty candid shots some of which are captioned in manuscript on the verso. The vernacular shots show a variety of subjects and settings including American serviceman on base at work and play in both Virginia and Japan portraits of Joyce's fellow soldiers numerous street scenes in Japan one manuscript caption reads "One of the modern Jap theatres on Main Street in Fukuoka" elevated views of the city of Fukuoka one taken from the Red Cross Building a shot of three Japanese "Janitors that work here in Battalion Headquarters" and other locals an image of Joyce with several Japanese children captioned on the verso "'Me' and some other little 'Japs'" and more. Three of the largest images present here are aerial photographs of Camp Hakata one with numerous buildings captioned in manuscript in the image area and keyed to a printed list on the verso. The other larger photograph is a professional group photograph of Joyce's Third Platoon with all members identified. Six commercial photographic postcards round out the collection which depict scenes in Japan with English printed captions beneath the images. unknown books
1971ref. 152448N.p.: N.p. 1971. Shooting Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Sunshine Ladies." 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. George Armitage's directorial debut and the second film released by Corman's New World Pictures. Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 2 1971 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 84. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1927ref. 140939125London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First trade edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original pale green paper-covered boards lettered in dark green. Near Fine with toning to covers light wear to spine with minute loss at head and tail. Small previous owner bookplate to front paste down and light toning to pages. A lovely copy in much nicer condition than as normally found in. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1969ref. 576249New York: Vanguard Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Very warmly Inscribed by the author. The author's fourth book and breakthrough novel published in a small print run when the publisher had given up on Oates as a commercially successful author. A superior copy of this National Book Award-winning novel. Vanguard Press hardcover books
1978ref. 461461978. LANCASTER Joyce Wilson. A Child's Garden of Verses. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 114 4 pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts 36 woodcut initials and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. Large 8vo. 250 x 160 mm bound in half morocco over boards title in gilt on spine. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1978. Nine poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. The book is a combination of colourful initials vignettes and full-page plates designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and skillfully printed by her husband the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson in Centaur and Arrighi types. One of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. hardcover books
1916ref. 777Laurence J. Gomme 1916. KILMER Joyce. THE CIRCUS AND OTHER ESSAYS. NY: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. 16mo. brown cloth & tan boards in dust jacket. First Edition earliest issue without the Mitchell Kennerley plate on the front pastedown. Kennerley eventually took over publication of the book and affixed its own publishing house plate on later copies. Signed presentation from Kilmer on the front endpaper to author and editor Ethel M. Colson: "To Ethel M. Colson from Joyce Kilmer. November 1916 New York City." Colson and Kilmer were undoubtedly acquainted with Colson being much involved with poetry particularly supporting Amy Lowell and the Imagist Movement. Very Good; little wear & soil small chip near Kilmer's name on the spine d/j. A nice copy!! $875.00. Laurence J. Gomme unknown books
1939ref. 562588New York: The Viking Press 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Large octavo. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Near fine in a moderately worn very good dust jacket that is about 1/8" shorter than the book with shallow chipping at the crown a small faint tape shadow on the front panel and a couple of longer tears at the extremities. A nice presentable copy of the first American edition. The Viking Press hardcover books
1972ref. 152995Hollywood: Marimark 1972. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Supergirl." Copy belonging to story writer John Burrows with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. An attractive free-spirited flight attendant with boyfriends in New York Miami and Los Angeles unwittingly becomes involved in an in-flight robbery. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/72 noted as Revised Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Gary Crutcher. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 10/20/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Marimark unknown books
