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1934réf. 140949980New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First authorized American edition first printing. xvii 768pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored cloth lettered in black an red over beveled boards top edge stained red. Near Fine with light wear and toning to cloth two bookplates to front paste down. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with designer's name Reichl to bottom corner of front panel spine darkened and extremities toned a few closed tears archival tape to verso reinforcing the ends of the spine and flap folds and the entire front flap fold. Slocum 21. A nice copy of the novel that was sued in the Southern District of New York in 1933 in the famous trial named United States vs. One Book Called Ulysses. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and attorney Morris Ernst arranged a deliberate legal challenge. The U.S. government brought an in rem action a lawsuit against the physical object to seize a copy of Ulysses under tariff and obscenity laws. Federal Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not obscene effectively lifting the ban and permitting its publication in the United States. Random House unknown books
1934réf. 333702New York: Random House 1934. First. hardcover. very good/good. Thick 8vo cream colored cloth lettered in red & black. d.w. N.Y.: Random House 1934. First Authorized American Edition. The first issue dust wrapper with "Reichl" on the front cover & the $3.50 price is lightly tanned & edge-chipped. Ownership name on end-paper. Random House unknown books
1929réf. 22621Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in original glassine nicked with some minor loss. Brancusi Constantin. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The three fragments are entitled; "The Mookse and the Gripes. The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump. The Ondt and the Gracehoper." Binding by Andrea Kohler. The three fragments comprise pp. 152-159 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of "Finnegans Wake." The image by Brancusi is a graphic work. THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960" notes: "A portrait as abstract as the author's text." This was one of the last books printed at the Black Sun Press. Crosby committed suicide in December 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. Kohler binding in fine red velvet and gold framed slipcase housed in fine black leather spine folding box lettered in red and black. Black Sun Press hardcover books
1934réf. 72391New York: Random House 1934. First U.S. edition to be authorized. Preceded by a 1929 piracy printed in New York for Samuel and Max Roth Slocum & Cahoon A21. In first-issue dust jacket with designer's name on front panel. "Complete and unabridged" this U.S. edition adds a foreword by Morris Ernst the "historic decision by Judge John M. Woolsey" that removed the U.S. federal ban on the book and Joyce's letter to publisher Bennett Cerf expressing his hopes for an American publication. 8vo rough beige cloth boards lettered in black and red; top edge brown; 768 pages. Near fine with subtle soiling and touch of light foxing to upper boards; in very good to near fine dust jacket with light professional repair to edges and folds and spot of soiling affecting few words in publisher's ads on rear panel. Random House unknown books
1989réf. 13275HEAT Whitney Musem 1989 first edition 2 volumes complete very fine in like cloth tray case. Bound in full leather and produced as clasp-locked hand-written diaries with illustrations by Robert Gober. Limited to 140 copies and SIGNED by both author and artist. A Fine Press item to be sure. Whitney Musem hardcover books
réf. 3206631970. Silver print on medium paper stamped. 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Silver print on medium paper stamped. 14 x 11 inches. Photographed in Berenice Abbott's Paris studio the iconic image of Joyce wearing a hat. According to Abbott who relied on natural light for her Paris portraits of the 1920s Joyce wore the hat because of the extreme sensitivity of his eyesight. unknown books
1916réf. 2940New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One innovation is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1939réf. 6104London: Faber and Faber 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded minor chips and tears mostly a the extremities and some smudges to the jacket panels. Among the most influential and complex Modernist works Finnegans Wake "blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive of the novel inspired by the 18th century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico is that history is cyclical.the novel's plot is nearly as complex as the linguistic tactics deployed by Joyce who combined a number of languages and utilized complex sonic implications to create an atmosphere of wordplay and hidden meaning throughout the entirety of Finnegans Wake" Britannica. A natural progression from his earlier masterpiece Ulysses Finnegans Wake shows Joyce pressing his ability to weave together numerous languages cultural mythologies and national literatures to defy boundaries and binaries we so often lean on to understand the world. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Faber and Faber unknown books
1925réf. 140948862Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1925. Early Reprint. Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. 736 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps lettered in white. Housed in a custom teal blue cloth clamshell case with green morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning and wear to the notoriously fragile wraps. Light creasing to spine light chipping to ends to ends small closed tear to rear joint at foot with tiny abrasion to rear cover. Light corner creases from prelims to 112 p. A nicer than usually found copy of Joyce's epic modern novel. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1916réf. JJ046New York: Huebsch 1916 First edition first printing. Publisher's blue cloth blind-stamped front cover and gilt spine. A very good copy with a slight lean to spine and wear to spine ends some light spotting to cloth and rubbing to board edge a slight mark to fore edge of pages 45-48 binding slightly cracked between pages 28 and 29 otherwise sturdy. Internally free of any writing or bookplates. Lacking the scarce original dust jacket. Overall a solid copy of the author's first novel. Slocum & Cahoon A11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's second book and first novel. With the assistance of Ezra Pound the semi-autobiographical text was first published serially in twenty-one monthly installments in the British literary magazine The Egoist from February 1914-September 1915. Readers' critical reactions and fear of obscenity laws led many British publishers to initially reject publication and it was first published in book form in America in 1916. The book which is a virtual rewrite of his abandoned novel Stephen Hero tells the story of the young artist Stephen Daedalus Joyce's fictionalized alter ego. The name alludes to both the Christian martyr Saint Stephen and the Greek mythological inventor Daedalus. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a Künstlerroman a subset of the bildungsroman genre. The novel is written in Joyce's characteristic style of free indirect speech; Joyce's writing style matures along with Daedalus' own consciousness so that the sophistication of the narrator's voice mirrors the protagonist's level of awareness. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Huebsch hardcover books
1916réf. 3926New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good . A Very Good copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good . B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1929réf. 299582Paris: Black Sun 1929. Limited. paperback. fine/fine. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition. Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon A-36. Black Sun unknown books
1966réf. 140604Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film and the first cinematic adaptation of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction. Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema unknown books
1918réf. 7836New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Published simultaneously with the English edition on May 25 1918 see Slocum & Cahoon 14 and 15. A Fine copy of the book in Near Fine dust jacket. vi 154 pp. Publisher's green cloth over tan blindstamped boards. A touch of foxing to edges and top edge dusty otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket rubbed and a bit foxed with just a few short tears to the rear panel. Overall a very appealing copy of Joyce's only play. Exiles captures the romantic dramas of Richard and Bertha a common-law couple recently returned to their home country of Ireland and the complex dynamics that play out between them Richard's cousin Robert and Robert's wife Beatrice. "The play was not especially popular at the time and is commonly regarded as one of Joyce's weaker works. However much of the initial criticism may have had to do with the play's provocative themes: unconventional relationships jealousy weakened national ties to Ireland and exile. All of these topics resonate with Joyce's personal life making Exiles a partly autobiographical work" James Joyce Foundation. After W.B. Yeats refused to stage the play Joyce unsuccessfully attempted to interest theatrical companies throughout England Ireland and the United States. Exiles eventually debuted in German translation in Munich in 1919. Of the premiere Joyce wrote: "Complete fiasco. Row in theatre. Play withdrawn. Author invited but not present.Thank God" Morgan Library. The play was not performed in English until a staging at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in 1925. Slocum & Cahoon 15. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. B.W. Huebsch unknown books
1934réf. 334890New York: Random House 1934. hardcover. fine. Thick 8vo handsomely rebound in full beige morocco red leather spine labels. New York: Random House 1934. First Authorized American Edition. Fine. Slocum & Cahoon 21. Random House unknown books
réf. ST15816-12Dublin: Lilliput Press 1997. No. 3 OF 100 SPECIAL COPIES of the "Illegal" First Dublin Edition bound in quarter leather and signed by Rose and Banville from a total edition of 1000 numbered and 26 lettered copies. 240 x 158 mm. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4". 4 p.l. v-lxxxiii 1 739 3 pp.Edited by Danis Rose. With a foreword by John Banville. Publisher's quarter blue morocco over navy cloth boards smooth spine with silver lettering. In a blue buckram slipcase. In mint condition. This is the first printing of Joyce's masterpiece actually to be done in Ireland--75 years after its initial publication. Generally recognized as the most important 20th-century novel in English Joyce's chronicle of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin excited much controversy upon publication in 1922 and was for years a target of censorship especially in the U.S. and U.K. The present edition also met with some animosity when it was discovered that the editor prominent Joyce scholar Danis Rose used some language from the original manuscripts without permission from Joyce's estate. A lawsuit for copyright infringement was issued and this work subsequently became known as the "Illegal Edition." Despite the unpleasant dispute Rose's "Ulysses" was lauded for its readability and was described by the Irish Times as "a landmark edition for first-time readers and life-time fans." Founded in 1984 and still in operation today the Lilliput Press has published more than 600 titles of Irish interest and is regarded as one of Ireland's most esteemed small publishers. This strictly limited edition of 100 rarely appears for sale: we could trace just one auction appearance at PBA Galleries in 2005 where a copy was sold for $1495 all in. Lilliput Press unknown books
1937réf. 2884Paris: np 1937. Very Good. POWERFUL IMAGE OF JAMES JOYCE BY SURREALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER JOSEF BREITENBACH. A remarkable set of circumstances had to come together to this photograph of James Joyce by German born photographer Josef Breitenbach to first exist and then to survive. Throughout the summer of 1937 as he experienced increasingly painful flashes in his right eye Joyce pored over early proofs of Finnegan's Wake then known only as "Work in Progress". Perhaps he was preoccupied with correcting the inevitable and myriad errors in his pun-flecked stream of consciousness prose or perhaps he was overcome with pain but we know from Breitenbach's pocket diary that Joyce canceled four times before the two exiled artists finally met. James Joyce's relationship with Ireland was famously complex and included self imposed exile. He and Nora Barnacle his future wife left Dublin in 1904 for mainland Europe never returning to his homeland after 1912. On the other hand photographer Josef Breitenbach was a Jewish German refugee who fled the rising Nazi's. Both his Jewish background and prior involvement with the short-lived revolution of 1918 made him an early target of the Brownshirts who knocked on his Munich studio door one day in 1932. Thinking on his feet Breitenbach was able to use his portrait of then Vice-Chancellor Papen whom he had photographed the year before together with a letter of thanks from Papen for his work in order to claim that he was under Papen's protection. Seizing the brief vacuum created by his subterfuge Breitenbach immediately packed his bags and within days departed for Paris. Once in Paris Breitenbach mingled with the Surrealists showing in gallery exhibitions alongside Man Ray Henri Cartier-Bresson and Brassai. Over time he developed a reputation for landscapes nudes and photo-journalism. By the time Breitenbach photographed James Joyce in July 1937 he had built a portfolio of portraits of artists such as Max Ernst Emile Bernard and Bertold Brecht. Studio portraits like this print of Joyce were often bathed in a soft seductive glow both flattering and intriguing. Here Joyce sits in profile with clasped hands behind him are blurred rows upon rows of bookshelves. The message is clear: despite failing vision Joyce remained a bright and vibrant writer. Meanwhile history marched on. Two years later in September 1939 Breitenbach was placed with other German and Jewish exiles in a French internment camp. His survival skills still intact he volunteered for a rural labor force that saved him from deportation to a concentration camp. With the help of friends in England and the United States Breitenbach once again fled the Nazi's arriving in New York in June 1941. To his enormous relief his entire oeuvre of photographic prints and negatives including the Joyce pictures had been smuggled out of Paris by another friend and sent to the States by way of Havana. As Breitenbach once again built a life for himself in a new country he turned to his pre-war work. Among the first negatives he developed were those of Joyce - an homage to the writer who had died months before at age 59 in Zurich. Silver gelatin photograph. Taken in 1937; printed later. With "Estate of Josef Breitenbach" stamp on verso. Very faint corner crease only noticeable on verso. Image approx 9x7 1/2 in / 23 x 19.2 cm; with margins 9 3/8 x 7 7/8 in / 23.8 x 19.9 cm. A beautiful evocative image. Rare. References: Michael Shnayerson Josef Breitenbach: James Joyce 9 Portraits. Dublin The Towers 2004. np unknown books
1916réf. 345922New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover. Some rubbing spine ends and slightly on corners one scratch to front cover near spine not affecting blind stamp; very clean internally. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards publisher of Dubliners Secker and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on the book if Harriet Weaver who had serialized the novel in The Egoist in 1914 would arrange for 750 copies to be published in London. It was published first in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January with the American sheets and a cancel Egoist title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11 B.W. Huebsch unknown books
1907réf. 140946996London: Elkin Mathews 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of James Joyce's first trade book and one of 509 copies originally printed. Second issue with thick wove endsheets. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth foxing to endsheets and preliminary matter contents tanned. A beautiful copy of this collection of poems with the title being derived from the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot. Slocum & Cahoon 3. Elkin Mathews unknown books
1920réf. 021432Paris 24 November 1920. Letter. Close to Fine. Small 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Joyce" to Madame Yasushi Tanaka Louise Gebhard Cann on blue paper integral with envelope which is addressed in Joyce's hand and postmarked on the verso. In full: "Dear Madam In reply to your letter I shall call on you on Sunday afternoon next as it seems to be the most convenient time for you. Sincerely yours James Joyce." Louise Gebhard Cann was a prominent writer and art critic in early 20th century France. At Ezra Pounds suggestion Cann wrote to Joyce requesting an interview with him for an article on writers in France set to appear in an upcoming issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Following publication of the "Nausicaa" episode of ULYSSES in THE LITTLE REVIEW the previous year Joyces writing was deemed obscene. This particular issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW was effectively banned in the United States and it is believed that because of the controversy the editors then decided to omit any mention of Joyce from the finished article published in the March 1921 issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Ellman JAMES JOYCE LETTERS III: 32. unknown books
1932réf. 69434New York: Berenice Abbott 1932. JOYCE James; ABBOTT Berenice. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Bernice Abbott 1932. Full Description: JOYCE James. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Berenice Abbott n.d. taken 1928. Original gelatin silver print portrait of Joyce taken by Abbott. Signed by the photographer in pencil in the lower right hand corner of the photograph. Mounted on stiff board. Abbott's stamp with her "50 Commerce Street NY" address on the verso of the mount. Image size: 13 x 10 1/8 inches; 330 x 260 mm. Some minor sunning around the perimeter of the photo. A tiny bit of scuffing to top and bottom edges. Otherwise about fine. This is the largest photo we can find of Joyce for the Commerce St. address. Swann Galleries who has had this photo before states "Circa 1932." This is a lovely and well-know portrait of author James Joyce. He is seated in Abbott's studio with a cane wearing a hat and his signature round-framed glasses. "Abbott photographed Joyce on two occasions the first in 1926 at his home in Paris and the second two years later in her studio. At the time of the sitting Joyce was struggling with teeth and eye problems and was struggling through completion of one of his best-known works Finnegan's Wake." "Berenice Alice Abbott July 17 1898 - December 9 1991 was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s." Wikipedia Abbott lived at 50 Commerce St. in NYC with her partner the influential art critic Elizabeth McCausland from 1935 to 1965. HBS 69434. $6000. Berenice Abbott unknown books
1922réf. 72310London: Egoist Press 1922. First UK edition. Printed in France from the plates of the original Shakespeare and Company edition just nine months after the first. Number 1299 of 2000 numbered copies. Finely re-bound in large 8vo gilt-stamped full blue leather with edges slightly trimmed by approximately 5 mm and the original paper covers bound in. The separately published 7-page errata that would have originally been laid in is not present here but facsimile copy is provided. Very good to near fine with original paper covers showing small amount of edge wear minor damp staining to bottom tips of several leaves and covers toned to light brown on spine and along edges. Slocum & Cahoon A18. Egoist Press unknown books
1936réf. 018988New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened. Light soiling mostly to the rear; spine darkened. Near Fine. Small octavo 4-1/2" x 6-5/8" in publisher's cream-white boards spine lettered in blue front cover stamped in blue with floral ornaments. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. Copy #576 of 800 numbered copies. A Presentation copy with Joyce's engraved visiting-card INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso in green ink: "Avec mes meilleures/voeux pour Noël et/la Nouvelle Année. Paris '37 James Joyce." On the recto Joyce has scored through his name in green ink and there is a green ink blot in the upper left corner. The Black Sun Press hardcover books
1936réf. 72353London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1936. First UK edition to be printed in England and eighth edition overall. Number 317 of 900 copies from a total edition of 1000. Small 4to or tall 8vo green linen buckram with gilt-lettered spine and gilt-stamped bow design by Eric Gill on front; text on Japon vellum; top edges gilt; 766 pages including appendices. Near fine with light crease to base of spine minor rubbing to corners and hint of foxing to endpapers; in about very good dust jacket with internal archival-tape repair to spine ends and corners where old tape was removed from verso. Jacket shows a bit of rubbing rumpling and soiling but only minimal edge wear. Relatively scarce in dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A23. John Lane the Bodley Head unknown books
1929réf. 2621Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. First edition. 194 pp. Original printed wrappers with cover design by Sylvia Beach. Top edge uncut and unopened. Some slight overall soiling to the wrappers slight chipping to the lower edge of the spine. Chemised in a custom slipcase. One of 96 numbered copies on Verge d'Arches the numbered copies are twice as thick as the ordinary edition due to the paper used. Various tributes and studies of Joyce's Work in Progress which was published ten years later as Finnegans Wake. As Beach wrote "these were writers who had been watching Work in Progress from the beginning each seeing it from his own angle but interested in Joyce's experiment and friendly towards it." Beckett's first appearance in book form with texts by Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. With letters of protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Federman & Fletcher 1. Wallace B11. Shakespeare and Company unknown books