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1922réf. 140944847London: The Egoist Press 1922. First British edition. First British edition. Published by John Rodker in London October of 1922 following the Paris printing in February the same year. Technically printed in France but for British private distribution. vi 732 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps on handmade paper. Copy #275 in a limitation of 2000. Near Fine with the fragile wraps in truly excellent shape; very rarely found unsophisticated with such little wear especially on the spine which typically has much much more chipping and wear; no restoration done to it. Typical toning to contents bump to bottom right corner with a hint of creasing. A literary milestone in wonderful shape. The Egoist Press unknown books
1935réf. 140946387New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1500 signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown. Fine with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1939réf. 12362FINNEGANS WAKE Faber & Faber 1939 first edition some faint grey specks along the spine else a tight vg copy. Of 425 specially bound copies this is 1/125 copies of the English issue SIGNED by the author. Among the most controversial and important 20th century works of literature. Faber & Faber unknown books
1930réf. ST15753bParis: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE. No. 24 OF 100 COPIES ON IRIDESCENT HANDMADE JAPON SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies. 283 x 191 mm. 11 1/8 x 7 1/2". 72 2 pp. Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine leaves untrimmed and UNOPENED IN THE ORIGINAL GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPPER. The whole in the original slightly rubbed three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper. Without the original slipcase. Title printed in green and black initials and headlines printed in green. Inside front cover of folder with bookplate of John Kobler see below. Slocum & Cahoon A-41. Corners just slightly bumped one small faint brown spot to tissue cover but AN OUTSTANDING COPY the very fragile and always-torn glassine entirely intact and the text with no signs of use most of it never having seen the light of day. This luxury version of an excerpt from "Finnegans Wake" is printed on especially pleasing handmade paper that glows like a pearl. In his book review for the New York Times 11 January 1931 Herbert Matthews says this fragment is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics which is not without its profit and amusement." However he admits "after an honest and patient effort backed by a previous reading of all of Mr. Joyce's work 'Haveth Childers Everywhere' still remained absolutely incomprehensible" and he expresses concern that "Mr. Joyce has gone a little further on the path he is hewing for himself toward what seems to be complete linguistic chaos." Perhap our previous owner found it equally rough going for this copy has obviously never been read. That owner could well have been the prolific biographer John Kobler 1910-2000 who wrote biographies of among others Al Capone John Hunter and John Barrymore and who contributed regularly to the New Yorker Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Fountain Press unknown books
1928réf. 140948801New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. #472 of 800 copies signed by James Joyce on the copyright page. A presentation copy with Sylvia Beach's handwritten note "from Mr. James Joyce" on her Shakespeare and Company stationary mounted to front pastedown. xviv 1 61 pp. printed on watermarked wove paper. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind and gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and faint staining around tail of spine. Contents lightly toned with occasional foxing more pronounced on endpapers and evidence of bookseller ticket removal to back pastedown. Slocum & Cahoon 32. The first separate publication of this fragment of Finnegans Wake which was published in installments over seventeen years before being issued as a complete book in 1939. Sylvia Beach the owner of the legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. had published Ulysses in 1922 and continued to foster Joyce's career during the following decade. She wrote in her 1959 memoir that Anna Livia Plurabelle gave her some trouble. She and Joyce tried to get the piece published in various literary periodicals with limited success. The Calendar accepted it only to be thwarted by its own printers who refused to set up a passage they found obscene. The printers at Princeton University Press which printed this luxurious limited edition for the New York bon vivant Crosby Gaige apparently had no such qualms. Crosby Gaige unknown books
1939réf. 1402430London: Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press 1939. Limited Edition #122/425. Hardcover. Octavo 628 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's brick red buckram spine stamped in gilt. Uncut and unopened as issued. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase stamped "Made in England" inside of the case. With very light edgewear. A few preliminary leaves and final leaves apparently reinforced with cloth tape a bit over-opened. Slipcase sturdy but with some wear and staining cloth beginning to detach in one corner. MC Consignment. Shelved case 2. References: Slocum & Cahoon A49. A letter from the Viking Press September 9 1947 states: "We also brought out and sold a limited edition of 310 copies the sheets of which were imported from the English publisher Faber & Faber. Our limited edition is identical with that of the British publisher and bears both imprints. The covers for the limited edition were made in England but the actual binding was done in the United States." 310 copies were sent to the United States instead of the 300 noted in the statement of limitation Slocum & Cahoon. 1402430. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press hardcover books
1927réf. 140946444London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Good. First trade edition first printing. A fantastic association copy signed by legendary publisher Sylvia Beach with a contemporary inscription dated Paris August 18 1928 opposite rear paste-down. Bound in publisher's pale green boards faded to tan with errata slip tipped in at rear. Good with cracking at spine leaving binding very fragile cup ring to upper cover. Joyce's second book of poetry a slim volume containing 13 poems. Sylvia Beach was an American ex-pat known for her iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company where she published James Joyce's Ulysses 1922 and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book Three Stories and Ten Poems 1923. While autographed copies of her book Shakespeare and Company published in 1960 are often available on the market Joyce titles with Beach's contemporaneous inscriptions from the heyday of the Lost Generation era are extremely uncommon and desirable. A fragile yet very important copy. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1930réf. 1282461930. First Edition. Signed. JOYCE James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. Slim folio original printed paper wraps uncut and unopened original glassine original gilt chemise and green cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $17500.First edition number 50 of only 100 signed copies on ÒImperial Hand-Made Iridescent JapanÓ paper out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy.This is one of several fragments from Work in Progress published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake that Joyce issued to raise money while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers Jack Kahane who idolized Joyce had originally asked Sylvia Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead she introduced Kahane to Joyce who then agreed to let him publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. The effort nearly ruined Kahane and only by selling the American rights to the work were he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy. When Faber and Faber was preparing the first London editions of Anna Livia Plurabelle and Haveth Childers Everywhere 1930 and 1931 respectively ""Joyce wrote rhymes for the 'blurb' on the dust jacket. The Haveth Childers verse is quoted in this description headlineÉ He was a little annoyed when the publicity departmentÉ used them only on a mimeographed publicity release to which they prefixed a note: 'The Sales department puzzled as such departments are wont to be have sought some light on the two James Joyce contributions to Criterion Miscellany. Below the explanations offered are passed on that you may be able to derive similar enlightenment"" Ellmann 617n. Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful fine copy in a slightly worn slipcase. paperback books
1922réf. 7586Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition. Very Good . One of 750 copies on handmade paper from the wider first edition limitation of 1000 copies. Based on Sylvia Beach's records it has been asserted that out of the three issues of the first edition this one was sent out first. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with some marginal restoration a few small unrestored closed tears to preliminary leaves a little occasional foxing a few gatherings a little roughly opened. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell case. A Very Good copy. Arguably the key text of the Modernist movement. "Joyce not to mince words is Ireland's Shakespeare its Goethe its Racine its Tolstoy" John Sutherland. The book also proved to be a major test case for laws of freedom of expression. "Forced underground by censors this was a cryptoclassic already before it was read a subversive colossus" Sherry. Provenance: Giles Gordon was a literary agent and writer working for publishers Secker & Warburg and Gollancz the latter as Editorial Director before representing writers such as Peter Ackroyd and Vikram Seth. Slocum and Cahoon A17. 7586. Very Good . Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1939réf. 140948664London: Faber and Faber 1939. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition signed limited issue. Number 334 of limited 425 copies signed by James Joyce. 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. In original yellow cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with trivial fading to spine. Foxing and soiling to slipcase light edge wear. A handsome copy of Joyce's final linguistically complex novel that took him seventeen years to complete; scarce. Slocum & Cahoon A49. Faber and Faber unknown books
1916réf. 69673New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. Full Description: JOYCE James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Octavo 7 5/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 182 x 125 mm. 4 299 1 blank pp. Original blue cloth title blind-stamped front board gilt-lettered spine. Gilt still bright. With some very light wear to head and tail of the spine and corners. Some very minor soiling to edges of text block. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. An about fine copy. "James Joyce novelist born at Rathgar a suburb of Dublin and educated at Irish Jesuit colleges. Dissatisfied with the intellectual atmosphere of Dublin he left Ireland in 1902 and spent most of the remainder of his life abroad chiefly in Trieste Zürich and Paris contending for many years with poverty suffering latterly from severe eye trouble and struggling to obtain the publication of his works." The Oxford Companion to English Literature 421-422 "A largely autobiographical novel. it portrays the childhood school days adolescence and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus later one of the leading characters in Ulysses. Stephen's growing self-awareness as an artist forces him to reject the whole narrow world which he has been brought up. rather than following a clear narrative progression the book revolves around experiences that are crucial to Stephen's development as an artist; at the end of each chapter Stephen makes some assertion of identity. Through his use of stream of consciousness technique Joyce reveals actual materials of his hero's world the components of his thought processes." Benét 822. Slocum and Cahoon A11. HBS 69673. $20000. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1914réf. 69705London: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers 1914. Full Description: JOYCE James. Dubliners. London: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers 1914. First edition. One of 746 copies bound for Richards another 540 were sent to the United States. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 192 x 125 mm. 278 2 blank pp. Complete with half-title. Publisher's crimson cloth. Spine and front board lettered in gilt. Some spotting to fore-edge and prelims. Spine slightly darkened. Cloth with some very light rubbing. Some minimal soiling to front and back free endpaper. Overall an about fine copy of this legendary rarity and epochal work in modern literature. "'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers resisting their demands to remove swear words real place names and much else including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'. Joyce's aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death an encounter an opportunity not taken a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation." Good Reads Slocum and Cahoon A8. HBS 69705. $25000. Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers unknown books
1914réf. 365353London: Grant Richards Ltd 1914. First edition one of 746 bound for Richards 1250 copies printed. 278 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark red cloth gilt stamped lettering on the spine and front cover some light fading to spine with slightest rubbing along top edge front cover with some bubbling; marks to endpapers from former protective cover bookplate on front pastedown slight cracking to text block at p. 144. First edition one of 746 bound for Richards 1250 copies printed. 278 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The rocky publishing history of Dubliners is well documented: finished in 1905 it was rejected by 15 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. Richards' printers refused to set some of the type - inaugurating Joyce's lifelong struggle with censorship - and Joyce refused most of Richards' changes. It was then taken up by Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin who eventually came to a similar conclusion. Maunsel even burned all but one of the copies of the sheets which Joyce managed to wheedle out of him and it was given back to Richards who set the type from the lone Maunsel sheet saved from the flames. Joyce subsequently added "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead" - possibly his most famous single story - to the collection. Slocum and Cahoon A8 Grant Richards Ltd unknown books
1988réf. 1734961988. MOTHERWELL Robert. Ulysses. By James Joyce. 838 pp. With 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell of which 20 are in colour. Thick folio 322 x 240 mm. bound in original publisher's white half-pigskin over blue patterned silk over boards in original blue patterned silk box. San Francisco: Arion Press 1988. A fine copy of one of the seminal books produced in America in the twentieth century. Robert Motherwell 1915-1991 a founder of Abstract Expressionism counted Joyce as his favorite modern author and drew upon his writing for titles to his paintings drawings and prints throughout his career. The project was four years in planning and a year and a half in production. Copies with the white pigskin still in fine condition are extremely rare. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by Motherwell on the statement of limitation. The type is Monotype and handset Perpetua printed by letterpress on French mouldmade Johannot. The intaglio printing was done by R. E. Townsend Inc. Georgetown Massachusetts in black and 19 colours on heavier-weight Johannot. Slipcase with a little fading else fine. Arion Press 27. hardcover books
1935réf. 140947396New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First illustrated edition of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece. One of a limited 250 copies signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse from an edition of 1500 total the majority of which were only signed by Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown; housed in the original tan cardstock slipcase with spine stamped in brown. 363 p. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to spine ends corners and gilt at raised relief on upper board. In a Very Good slipcase with soiling and light wear and a short repair to the seam at the opening along the bottom edge. A wonderful copy housed in a custom brown cloth solander case with morocco spine label stamped in gilt. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. Slocum & Cahoon 22. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1917réf. 140947159London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First British Edition. Very Good. First English edition printed from English sheets preceded by a first American edition and an English edition that was bound using the American sheets because English printers would not accept responsibility for printing it. Signed by James Joyce on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Baron Ambrose Ralli "in grateful remembrance of 21 June 1915" signed in Trieste on 8 November 1919. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with slight lean to binding fading to spine with fraying to crown light soiling to cloth and crease to bottom corner of rear board. Occasional pencil annotations and corner creases; front hinge a bit tender and offsetting and foxing to endpapers. An important presentation copy to a friend of Joyce's Baron Ambrose Paul Ralli 1876-1938. Here he his thanking Ralli for his crucial role in helping his family flee Italy during World War I. When Italy declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in May 1915 Joyce was compelled to flee Trieste. Baron Ralli and Count Francesco Sordina provided essential support during this perilous time. The date of remembrance June 21st is likely the day Joyce escaped. The Baron championed Joyce's literary career and was the sole subscriber to Ulysses in Trieste. Slocum & Cahoon 13. The Egoist Ltd unknown books
1936réf. 140945626London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1936. First Edition Thus. Near Fine. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies from a total edition of 1000 copies this copy unnumbered printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum. This copy was reserved for presentation by the author unnumbered at the colophon with the words "Presentation Copy" inscribed in calligraphy below the limitation. The only other copy of this edition of 100 that we could locate that bears the presentation inscription this copy also unnumbered was from Joyce's private library now housed in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. They also hold two other copies of the Bodley Head Ulysses 1/900 that also bear the words "Presentation Copy" on the edition statement: one having been owned by Joyce and the other by Sylvia Beach. Bound in publisher's original full calf vellum with gilt Homeric bows designed by Eric Gill on the upper and lower cover and titles in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's original patterned slipcase which is also correctly sans number matching the presentation copy's blank. Near Fine with light discoloration and light rubbing to the vellum spine slightly darkened and with light mottled foxing foxing to textblock extremities. Slipcase is rubbed and a little worn with several small stains; Foxing to interior of slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in. John Lane the Bodley Head unknown books
1916réf. 140946344New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition utilizing English sheets first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a national identity was raging. The country was at a cultural crossroads which Joyce felt was responsible for a collective paralysis. He conceived of Dubliners as a "nicely polished looking-glass"held up to the Irish and a "first step towards their spiritual liberation." Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in green; one of 504 sets of sheets which were imported by Huebsch from the British publisher Grant Richards. Title page is a cancel printed on laid paper with "Utopian" watermark. 278pp. Near Fine textblock edge lightly dust-soiled and with a faint stain to the bottom edge pages tanned. In the incredibly rare original dust jacket Near Fine tanned and lightly edge worn with several short closed tears several droplet stains to spine panel with chipping to ends lightly rubbed. A beautiful example entirely free of repair or restoration. A major work of twentieth-century literature seldom if ever seen in jacket. Slocum & Cahoon 9. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
