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1969Best.-Nr. 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
2014Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 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
1916Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1972Best.-Nr. 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
1918Best.-Nr. 508502Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition issue with wove endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. A fine copy with text partially unopened in about fine publisher's unprinted tissue dust jacket with very slight wear. Slocum & Cahoon A5- issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 311572New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition LIMITED ISSUE number 450 of 800 numbered copies from an edition of 850 fifty copies were printed on Japan Vellum and signed. Frontispiece portrait after a crayon drawing by Augustus John original tissue guard preserved. 66 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original publisher's white boards decorated in blue blue silk page marker. Stain to top and bottom of spine. John Augustus. First Edition LIMITED ISSUE number 450 of 800 numbered copies from an edition of 850 fifty copies were printed on Japan Vellum and signed. Frontispiece portrait after a crayon drawing by Augustus John original tissue guard preserved. 66 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. This collects 'Chamber Music' 'Pomes Penyeach' and 'Ecce Puer' the last of which is published for the first time. Slocum & Cahoon A44 The Black Sun Press unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 328305Paris: Shakespeare & Co 1927. hardcover. very good. Thick 8vo 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards gilt top. Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1927. 9th printing. The binding is rubbed at the joints pages lightly tanned but a sound copy . Shakespeare & Co unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 447978Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A free adaptation for the theater by Mary Manning. Ownership signature of actor Michael Clarke-Laurence. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with faint toning on the spine. Letter laid in from director and screenwriter Mary Bute on the stationary of Expanding Cinema to Michael Clarke-Laurence offering him a part in the adaptation. Bute eventually directed the film in 1966; it was awarded as Best Debut at the Cannes Film Festival; Clarke-Laurence did not appear in it. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1914Best.-Nr. 229230First edition first issue. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; light soiling; rubbing; edges reinforced with paper tape on verso. Very good. 75 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown polished leather with gilt stamped red leather spine label over brown cloth slipcase with folding fleece lined chemise. Laid in loose is a facsimile of the Autograph Manuscript of Joyce Kilmer's beloved poem "Trees" in the collection of Thomas F. Madigan with a printed Christmas letter of thanks Christmas 1935. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 504080New York: Vanguard Press 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Tall narrow quarto. Spiral bound yellow printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled with slight surface wear a very good copy of this proof usually prepared in very small numbers in this format. Vanguard Press unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 629423Windsor Ontario Canada: Orange Bear Reader 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First editions. Edited by Juanita Galle Michael Galle John Bedford and Steven Osterlund. Eight of nine handprinted broadsides each measuring 10" x 13" save one that is a bifolium in printed paper sleeves. Broadsides and sleeves are fine housed in toned and soiled publisher's envelopes with cardboard stiffeners. Each broadside handprinted in an edition of 500 copies. Poems by Paul Goodman Joyce Carol Oates "'Woman is the Death of the Soul'" Douglas Blazek "The Door my Hand Remembers is Handleless" Irving Layton "For Anna" Greg Kuzma Alex Gildzen George Bowering Lewis Warsh. The first eight apparently only nine were printed. Orange Bear Reader hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 8016New York: Black Sun Press 1936. First edition. Very Good . One of 800 copies this being copy sixty-four. A Very Good copy. 165 x 115 mm. lxv 1 p. Complete with the frontisportrait of Joyce. Publisher's white paper boards stamped in dark blue with a floral border and floral device. Toning to edges of boards. A bit of foxing mostly to endpapers and some toning due to removed tape to lower endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership signature of Anne Goodwin Smith to upper free endpaper. A couple leaves unopened. Lacking the ribbon bookmark. The Collected Poems of James Joyce compiles thirteen poems including the previously unpublished "Ecce Puer" which Joyce wrote to commemorate the birth of his grandson in 1932. The collection also includes the eleven "Poems Penyeach" which had not previously been published in the United States and "Chamber Music" which had been previously published by the Viking Press. Very Good . Black Sun Press unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 018276The Viking Press 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition.Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$5.00 On Flap. Rare In This Condition. Joyce's Classic.Beautiful Fresh Copy.Very Scarce. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1914Best.-Nr. 008161George H. Doran Company 1914. Book. Fine. Cloth. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy Small tape repair at Crown. First Edition First Issue "Without Printed in the USA" on Copyright Page. Presentation Copy."To Amelia Josephine Burr from Joyce Kilmer November 1914." Signed in Year of Publication. Very Scarce. Excellent Copy. George H. Doran Company Hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 56589New York: Pach Brothers 1978. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. Mount slightly chipped image fine. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. A fine early portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio the Pach Brothers. Oates won the National Book Award in 1970 for her novel THEM and the photograph was probably taken around the time of her emergence as a major literary figure. An unusual image of Oates in formal pose WITHOUT THE GLASSES and rarely seen. Pach Brothers unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 339303London: Egoist Press 1917. First. hardcover. good. Small 8vo olive green cloth slightly skewed extremes of spine & corners rubbed; small gift inscription on flyleaf. London: Egoist Press 1917. Second Edition. Joyce's first novel was published in America by Huebsch from whom Harriet Weaver purchased "not more than 750 sets of sheets" to be published in 1917 actually issued in 1918. This is the first English edition printed on English sheets. Egoist Press unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 66327Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1930. First edition one of 500 copies on handmade Vidalon Royal paper of which this is number 218. Small folio 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 282 x 190 mm. Original wrappers printed in black and green glassine and publisher's green and gold slipcase. Pages unopened. Tiny chip to bottom of spine some wear and splitting to slipcase edges. Otherwise fine. Slocum and Cahoon A41. HBS 66327. $1000. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 48657Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Very good plus. Ninth printing of James Joyce's masterpiece one of the great works of literature in English. ULYSSES first saw print in the modernist literary magazine THE LITTLE REVIEW edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. Midway through their serialization issues of the magazine were seized and the editors were brought to trial in the fall of 1920. When they were convicted ULYSSES was abandoned only about half of it published. This disaster led to the now iconic publication of the book by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Company of which this copy is a ninth printing. 8'' x 6.25''. Later blue cloth boards. 736 pages. Leaves with a touch of toning light edgewear. Firm. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 576248New York: Vanguard Press 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Thick octavo. Green printed wrappers. One corner a little creases a little toning and a short tear on the spine very good or better. The author's fourth book and breakthrough novel published in a small print run when the publisher had given up on Oates's as a commercially successful proposition. National Book Award-winning novel. Very scarce in this format. Vanguard Press unknown books
