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1939réf. 3275New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition. Joyce's last major work a challenging work of fiction significant for its experimental style and use of language. Fragments of the work first appeared in 1924 in the pages of literary journals Transition and Transatlantic Review; the UK and US editions were published simultaneously on May 4 1939. Slocum & Cahoon 48; Connolly 100. First Printing one of 6000 copies. Octavo 24.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; teal topstain; dustjacket; vi6282pp. A Fine copy with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.00 showing pinpoint wear to extremities and four tiny edge tears; very Near Fine entirely unfaded and unrestored. The Viking Press unknown
1934réf. 835111934. JOYCE James. The Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies. A Fragment from Work in Progress. Orig. printed wrappers in publisher's slipcase. The Hague: The Servire Press 1934. Slocum and Cahoon A43. First edition first issue. Limited to 1000 copies this being no. 198. The cover image initial and tailpiece all designed by Joyce's daughter Lucia. Spine toned slipcase worn at top of spine else a very good unopened copy. unknown
1929réf. 208857Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. Softcover. VG-. Glassine has some thumbnail sized chips along the spine and is a little toned. Otherwise clean. Etched abstract Brancusi portrait of Joyce. #291 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Large Octavo. Softcover. Cream wraps with red and black titles with glassine jacket. 4 preliminary leaves XV 1 55 pages 2 unnumbered leaves 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustration ; 22 cm. The Black Sun Press paperback
1977réf. 15347JNew York: Garland 1977. First Edition. Two large volumes complete in slipcase. Inscribed on the first blank to the eminent publisher Peter du Sautoy Chairman of Faber & Faber by three of the editors. Publisher's quarter green cloth over blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. In blue cloth slipcase. Full facsimile edition of Joyce's holograph manuscript. Fresh and clean copies. Top of spines slightly bumped else fine minor marks to slipcase. A rare collectors set of a book printed in a quantity intended for research libraries. Garland hardcover
1934réf. 2206068Random House 1934. first. hardcover. very good/good. First US edition as stated on copyright page. In first issue dust jacket "Reichl" on front bottom corner of dj. Book very good minor soiling to covers gutter cracked at title page some spots at foredge small water mark at corner of bottom edge and foredge. Dust jacket good front flap detached some pieces missing spine hinge to front has tear as well as rear flap at hinge. Random House unknown
1939réf. 140937376New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding lettered in gilt. Fine with fading to topstain near spine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with several tiny edge-tears and very light soiling. A striking copy of a book and jacket typically found in much lesser condition. The Viking Press unknown books
1934réf. 2206068Random House 1934. first. hardcover. very good/good. First US edition as stated on copyright page. In first issue dust jacket "Reichl" on front bottom corner of dj. Book very good minor soiling to covers gutter cracked at title page some spots at foredge small water mark at corner of bottom edge and foredge. Dust jacket good front flap detached some pieces missing spine hinge to front has tear as well as rear flap at hinge. Random House unknown books
1929réf. 208857Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. Softcover. VG-. Glassine has some thumbnail sized chips along the spine and is a little toned. Otherwise clean. Etched abstract Brancusi portrait of Joyce. #291 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Large Octavo. Softcover. Cream wraps with red and black titles with glassine jacket. 4 preliminary leaves XV 1 55 pages 2 unnumbered leaves 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustration ; 22 cm. The Black Sun Press paperback books
1911réf. 92792New York: The Baker & Taylor Company 1911. First edition first issue of Joyce Kilmer's first book of verse. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow poet and literary critic Thomas Walsh "To Thomas Walsh With appreciation of his roast of this book and the sincere admiration of Joyce Kilmer June 20 1913 Brooklyn NY." A scholar of Latin American and Spanish literature Thomas Walsh published four books of poetry and wrote many short articles and reviews including several for the New York Times. With Walsh's bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. A nice association and uncommon signed as Kilmer was killed in World War I. American poet Joyce Kilmer would later write of his first book of verse Summer of Love that ".some of the poems in it those inspired by genuine love are not things of which to be ashamed and you understanding would not be offended by the others." Kilmer gained immense popularity in 1913 with the publication of his best known poem Trees which was later published in book format the following year in a collection which also introduced the popular poem "The House With Nobody In It". The Baker & Taylor Company hardcover
1916réf. 268174New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's half brown cloth and boards. Near fine in orange pictorial dust-jacket with clown holding flaming circus hoop jacket toned at spine panel with some chipping to extremities of jacket. With obituary and other contemporary notices and poem pasted in to preliminaries and final leaf and with manuscript poem "Joyce Kilmer" by George Steele Seymour on half-title. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With a fine Autograph Letter signed "Joyce Kilmer" to Miss Olson written from the front. Headquarters Co. 165th Infantry A.E.F. France n.d. but after Nov. 1917. 1-1/2 pages tipped in after title-page. "It was kind of you to send me the book of tickets and I am honored by thus becoming the guest of the Chicago Woman's Club . I'm more homesick for Chicago than for any other city in America you see Larchmont Manor isn't a city . I think you will like my poem 'Rogue Bouquet.' I am a sergeant now and never expect to go any higher. For to get a commission I'd be obliged to go to school away from the Regiment for some months and when school was over I'd be sent - whether or not I had gained a commission - not back to this Regiment but to some strange outfit. And I'd rather be a sergeant in the 69th than an officer in any other Regiment ." Kilmer was proud of his position in the "Fighting Sixty-ninth" though by his time known as the 165th Infantry and had requested permission to join its ranks. Kilmer was killed in action 30 July 1918 while scouting German machine-gun positions near the Ourcq River. BAL 11108 Laurence J. Gomme unknown
1916réf. 268174New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's half brown cloth and boards. Near fine in orange pictorial dust-jacket with clown holding flaming circus hoop jacket toned at spine panel with some chipping to extremities of jacket. With obituary and other contemporary notices and poem pasted in to preliminaries and final leaf and with manuscript poem "Joyce Kilmer" by George Steele Seymour on half-title. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With a fine Autograph Letter signed "Joyce Kilmer" to Miss Olson written from the front. Headquarters Co. 165th Infantry A.E.F. France n.d. but after Nov. 1917. 1-1/2 pages tipped in after title-page. "It was kind of you to send me the book of tickets and I am honored by thus becoming the guest of the Chicago Woman's Club . I'm more homesick for Chicago than for any other city in America you see Larchmont Manor isn't a city . I think you will like my poem 'Rogue Bouquet.' I am a sergeant now and never expect to go any higher. For to get a commission I'd be obliged to go to school away from the Regiment for some months and when school was over I'd be sent - whether or not I had gained a commission - not back to this Regiment but to some strange outfit. And I'd rather be a sergeant in the 69th than an officer in any other Regiment ." Kilmer was proud of his position in the "Fighting Sixty-ninth" though by his time known as the 165th Infantry and had requested permission to join its ranks. Kilmer was killed in action 30 July 1918 while scouting German machine-gun positions near the Ourcq River. BAL 11108 Laurence J. Gomme unknown books
1924réf. 15929London: Jonathan Cape Ltd 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket unclipped 7s. 6d. net generally rubbed and soiled some chips at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound sparsely foxed at the edges toned at the endpapers clean otherwise. The first Cape edition of Joyce's classic novel of Stephen Dedalus. Jonathan Cape Ltd hardcover
1924réf. 15929London: Jonathan Cape Ltd 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket unclipped 7s. 6d. net generally rubbed and soiled some chips at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound sparsely foxed at the edges toned at the endpapers clean otherwise. The first Cape edition of Joyce's classic novel of Stephen Dedalus. Jonathan Cape Ltd hardcover books
1939réf. 075 - 479 - 805First impression of Joyce's final novel in the original dust jacket Publisher and Year: London: Faber and Faber Limited 1939 Edition: First edition first impression trade issue. The publisher produced 3400 sets of sheets but bound only 2450 of them and destroyed the remaining 950. Original first-issue dust jacket retaining the price of 25s net on the bottom of the front flap. Released simultaneously with the signed limited edition Faber and Faber and the first American edition New York: The Viking Press. Slocum & Cahoon A47 Condition and Description: Quarto burgundy cloth stamped in blind and gilt yellow topstain edges uncut 628 pp. Clean cloth with trace handling marks only. Secure hinges and binding. Remains of pencil note to the front free endpaper. Tanning to the first and final blank leaves as usual owing to the acidity of the endpapers. Mild vertical crease to the preliminary leaves up until p. 7 and then a shorter crease to about p. 17. The notoriously fragile dust jacket has some nicks short tears and small chips to the extremities and spine ends; and two larger areas of loss to the rear panel. Preserved in an archival mylar cover. - "riverrun past Eve and Adam's" Finnegans Wake is James Joyce's final novel the culmination of seventeen years of experimentation that carried modernism to its outer limit. Conceived as a single night's dream encompassing all of human history it transforms the lives of a Dublin publican his wife and their children into an endlessly recursive myth of fall and renewal. Written in a polyglot language that fuses English with fragments from dozens of tongues the book compresses folklore theology and gossip into a dense musical weave that dissolves the boundaries between story song and history. Emerging after Ulysses as both its sequel and inversion Finnegans Wake rejected the realist novel entirely recasting fiction as a linguistic symphony meant to be heard as much as read. Its publication in 1939 divided critics and bewildered readers yet it soon became one of the central monuments of twentieth-century literature studied for its innovations in language structure and sound. Once dismissed as unreadable it has since shaped the methods of Beckett Burgess and Pynchon and remains unmatched in its ambition to encompass the whole of human speech within a single book. Inventory ID: 075 - 479 - 805 Faber and Faber Limited
1926réf. 24099Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1926. The first printing of Ulysses to have the type entirely reset work accomplished with Joyce’s participation the 8th printing overall and one of the key Shakespeare and Company printings very early and desirable. Small 4to in a handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter dark-blue morocco over blue cloth boards the spine divided by bands ruled in gilt one compartment lettered in gilt. The original blue wrappers printed in white as issued by Shakespeare and Company in Paris are bound in at the front and back. 6 735 pp. A very desirable copy in contemporary binding the paper still quite fresh and all very sturdy and sound. A handsome book with only light evidence of age. ONE OF THE KEY PRINTINGS BY SYLVIA BEACH’S SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY OF THIS LANDMARK OF 20th CENTURY LITERATURE. It is the first reprinting of the work to use entirely reset type. The work was accomplished with Joyce’s participation. The copy is bound as is often found on printings of the period in a simple style designed to draw little attention to itself due the controversy of the text within. In all a highly collectable copy. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf John Dos Passos William Faulkner Samuel Beckett Malcolm Lowry and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute consciously or unconsciously to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of the century and he was not alone in that opinion. At the beginning of the present century the Modern Library placed ULYSSES in the number one spot on their 100 best books of the 20th century list. Shakespeare and Company hardcover
1934réf. COLLECTI007623INEW YORK NY: RANDOM HOUSE. VG/VG. PUB 1934. FIRST EDITION. BOOK IS VERY NICE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT BUTWITH THE SPINE LIGHTLY TANNED. D.J. IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE CORNERS CHIPWORN AT THE SPINE CORNERS SHALLOW CHIPS TO THE SPINE HEEL SLIGHTLYAFFECTING THE PUBLISHER'S NAME SPINE PANEL IS SOILED/TANED WITH A FEWEDGE TEARS AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE COPY. THIS COPY ALSOINCLUDES THE RARE POSTER WHICH MEASURES 22" X 16" PRESENTED WITH THECOMPLIMENTS OF RANDOM HOUSE AND TITLED "HOW TO ENJOY JAMES JOYCE'SULYSSES". Keywords: IRISH LITERATURE NOVEL INVISIBLE ABCDEF. RANDOM HOUSE unknown
1936réf. 21246351936. London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1936. Tall 8vo. Original green linen buckram lettered in gilt to spine Eric Gill's Homeric bow illustration in gilt to upper board top edge gilt other edges untrimmed; pp. xiii 3 765 3; cloth discoloured especially at extremities and stained spine sunned extremities and text block rubbed; light foxing internally but generally clean; a good copy.First UK edition no. 341 of 900 copies on japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram from a total edition of 1000.The Bodley Head edition of Ulysses the first published in the United Kingdom includes the first Joyce bibliography as well as appendices concerning the obscenity case that had kept the work from British printers. Unsurprisingly for a book with such a chequered publication history there are a number of typographical differences from earlier editions. Despite Joyce correcting the proofs while on holiday in Copenhagen in early 1936 several mistakes were later spotted. The bibliography by Peter Pertzoff had been submitted without further corrections or acknowledgment from Joyce. Pertzoff was apparently surprised to see it appear inaccuracies and all in this edition.The typography and design was overseen by Allen Lane and Joyce's representative Paul Leon. Eric Gill was commissioned to design the binding of this edition with its iconic Homeric bow on the upper board.Slocum & Cahoon A23. hardcover
1939réf. 18252London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full marroon cloth with a Good dust jacket. A few chips and tears to jacket including one tear the full height of the jacket at spine; jacket presents well in new mylar sleeve. Toning to interior. Text is unmarked. Royal 8vo 9 3/4"h x 6 1/2"w. Uncommon First Edition in jacket. Finnegans Wake is groundbreaking work of modernist literature that challenges conventional narrative forms and explores the complexities of language history and the human psyche. he novel breaks down traditional linguistic structures creating a text that is both elusive and rich in meaning. The story is presented in a cyclical structure reflecting Joyce’s view of history as repetitive and fluid while its dream-like quality mirrors the erratic flow of consciousness. Drawing on a vast array of cultural literary and historical references Finnegans Wake engages with profound philosophical questions about the nature of language identity and reality. This intertextual and experimental novel defies simple interpretation inviting readers to explore its layers of meaning and challenging the boundaries of what a novel can achieve. A cornerstone of 20th-century literature Finnegans Wake has had a lasting influence on both literary theory and creative expression making it a pivotal work for those interested in the intersections of language philosophy and narrative innovation. Faber and Faber hardcover
1989réf. 290816New York: Whitney Museum 1989. Limited. hardcover. fine. Gober. 2 vols. bound in crushed white leather with diary-style gilt clasps and enclosed side by side in the publishers 4to lavender silk box. New York: Whitney Museum 1989. Limited Edition. This beautifully conceived artist's book of a short story concerning a pair of twins was designed by Robert Gober along with the hand-written text & lithographed end-papers. One of 140 copies signed by Oates and Gober. As new in a very lightly stained box. Whitney Museum unknown
1989réf. 290816New York: Whitney Museum 1989. Limited. hardcover. fine. Gober. 2 vols. bound in crushed white leather with diary-style gilt clasps and enclosed side by side in the publishers 4to lavender silk box. New York: Whitney Museum 1989. Limited Edition. This beautifully conceived artist's book of a short story concerning a pair of twins was designed by Robert Gober along with the hand-written text & lithographed end-papers. One of 140 copies signed by Oates and Gober. As new in a very lightly stained box. Whitney Museum unknown books
1977réf. 21550Paris Le Soleil Noir 1977 In-12, broch, couverture illustre. Embotage in-4 dont le premier plat ajour laisse voir travers un rhodod les gravures originales de Camacho (embotage de l'diteur).Edition originale, orne de 5 illustrations hors texte de Camacho. Tirage limit 1.899 exemplaires numrots. Un des 99 premiers exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches dans la srie Livre-objet, seuls tre placs dans un livre-tableau qui renferme 5 eaux-fortes originales sur vlin de Rives, justifies et signes par l'artiste.
1977réf. 36910Paris Le Soleil Noir 1977 In-12, broch, couverture illustre; embotage in-4 dont le premier plat ajour laisse voir travers un rhodod les gravures originales de Camacho (embotage de l'diteur).Edition originale, orne de 5 illustrations hors texte de Camacho. Tirage limit 1.899 exemplaires numrots. Exemplaire dartiste, identique aux 99 premiers exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches dans la srie "Livre-objet" qui se prsentent sous la forme d'un "livre-tableau" renfermant 5 eaux-fortes originales sur vlin de Rives, justifies et signes par l'artiste.
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
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
1934réf. 149451New York: Random House 1934. First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt signature of Joyce to the front panel gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. "Within a month of the publication the first printing of Ulysses Shakespeare and Company Paris 1922 was practically sold out and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world… Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways" de Grazia 27. In this edition the text of Joyce's great work is preceded by a foreword synopsis of the District Court decision and letter from Joyce to his publisher Bennett Cerf all discussing the extraordinary controversy surrounding the book's publication. In 1929 an unauthorized American edition of the novel appeared a piracy of the legitimate ninth printing of Shakespeare and Company. "This Random House edition was set up from the text of a copy of that pirated edition incorporating most of its typographical errors and adding a few new ones" Slocum A21. The United States' ban on Ulysses was not lifted until December 6th 1933; one month later the first authorized American edition was delivered to the public. Joyce's "novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" Grolier Joyce 69. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. Random House hardcover
