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Best.-Nr. BN107275Hisarlik Pr. The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature Hisarlik Pr unknown
Best.-Nr. 6498631Clarendon Press . Hardback. New. pp. 452 Clarendon Press hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. Manohar-9780415678148Routledge 2013. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. Manohar-9780415678148Routledge 2013. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. 325215Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine AS NEW IN SHRINKWRAP. Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded bottom and side edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; Signed by Joyce Carol Oates.; Signed First Edition; Signed by Author. Easton Press hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. 939T90London: Faber and Faber 1965. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10" by 7.5". Gerald Rose. A superb first edition of this brightly illustrated short story for children from Irish writer James Joyce. First edition. Illustrated with ten full colour pages and numerous in-text images. Not typically considered a writer of children's stories Joyce wrote this work as a letter to his grandson Stephen. He retells the story of the cat of Beaugency a town on the Loire and the difficulties the town experienced when the Devil came to stay. Written by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce an Irish novelist poet and literary critic. Illustrated by Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose a British illustrator of children's books. In the original full paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine Faber and Faber hardcover
2006Best.-Nr. __3110121522Walter De Gruyter Inc 2006. Paperback. New. facsimile edition. 333 pages. Latin language. 15.00x10.50x1.00 inches. Walter De Gruyter Inc paperback
1970Best.-Nr. 55494Paris: Mercure de France 1970. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1970 15 x 21 cm broché First edition in French one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper the only deluxe copies. The correspondence is expanded with Pound's essays on Joyce. Handsome copy. Mercure de France unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 62685Norfolk Connecticut:: New Directions 1929. First American edition from the French sheets. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Tiny line of sunning at top and bottom of spine; otherwise a fine copy in a bright jacket with a little rubbing and slight use to the spine. . 12mo. New Directions, hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 008638London: John Baillie 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Very Good or better. Decorated cloth. The second of only two issues of this annual to be printed. Includes "Two Songs" by James Joyce preceding his first book CHAMBER MUSIC by two years. Other contributors to this annual include Arthur Symons Alice Meynell Oliver Gogarty and illustrators J. McNeil Whistler Frank Brangwyn Arthur Rackham and J. S. Sargent. Two of the minor illustrations lacking in this copy. John Baillie hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 516873Guanajuato Gto. Mexico: Casa Salmans 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Rothwell Bouillon aged twelve; Henry Fournier aged thirteen; and Robert Fournier aged eleven. Thin octavo. 44pp. Green cloth stamped in black. Front fly neatly excised else a near fine copy. A collection of stories written in English by an eleven-year old author with illustrations by three young illustrators aged eleven through thirteen. Author's first book.Text in English. Blank eventually wrote adult fiction. Rare. No copy located by OCLC but which does locates three titles in Spanish that the author published as an adult in 1970's through 1990's. Casa Salmans hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 516873Guanajuato Gto. Mexico: Casa Salmans 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Rothwell Bouillon aged twelve; Henry Fournier aged thirteen; and Robert Fournier aged eleven. Thin octavo. 44pp. Green cloth stamped in black. Front fly neatly excised else a near fine copy. A collection of stories written in English by an eleven-year old author with illustrations by three young illustrators aged eleven through thirteen. Author's first book.Text in English. Blank eventually wrote adult fiction. Rare. No copy located by OCLC but which does locates three titles in Spanish that the author published as an adult in 1970's through 1990's. Casa Salmans hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages. Set in Dublin and shot there on location. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. Continental Distributing unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages. Set in Dublin and shot there on location. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. Continental Distributing unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 157813New York: Vanguard 1963. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Richard / Joyce Carol Oates." The author's first book. Jacket spine lightly faded and rubbed else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Vanguard unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 157813New York: Vanguard 1963. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Richard / Joyce Carol Oates." The author's first book. Jacket spine lightly faded and rubbed else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Vanguard unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 538236New York / Santa Cruz: The Viking Press / The Cowell Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition of this excerpt. 12mo. 34pp. last 22 pages blank. Frontispiece photograph. Red silk cloth over boards. Glue that affixes the photo has bled-through a little on the previous page else fine. Copy number 3 of 4 copies printed by JoAnn Berns at The Cowell Press. A brief excerpt from the Joyce novel. OCLC locates a single copy. The Viking Press / (The Cowell Press hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. 539152Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition issue with laid endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Small tape shadows on endpapers where a previous owner probably tried to preserve the original unprinted glassine apparently without success else a very near fine copy lacking the tissue dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A5: issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 427747London: The Egoist Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 12mo. Neat owner's name on front fly else very near fine. One of only 107 copies of this very scarce edition. The Egoist Press hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. 001839New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. Surprisingly this is the great Irish writer's only dramatic work; it was rejected by Yeats for production at the Abbey Theatre - perhaps therein lies the tale. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Grayish-tan paper-covered boards blindstamped but unfilled; green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Clean text; 154 pages. Very discreet bookseller's label on the front paste-down. Tiniest hints of wear at the edges one must look carefully!; possibly the best copy Quercus has seen. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. B.W. Huebsch Hardcover
1958Best.-Nr. 89491NY: Viking 1958. Eighth US printing. 628 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning and a few small spots to spine. The first edition to incorporate Joyce’s corrections to the text. Much less common than the 1939 first US edition. NY: Viking unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 053109New York: Viking Press 1939. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 628pp.; HB blk.w/gilt; slight rub w/hinges cracked; PONstamp; cleantight pgs. DJ pale bluegray w/bluered&white; heavy rub&soil w/2x5"chipspine; wear on edges&corners; tape repairs on spine&edges. Joyce classic 6.25x9.75 Viking Press hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 312065Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. Printed wrappers. Lacking glassine and slipcase spine heavily chipped dampstaining. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 28729Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. Original green printed boards some fading as usual light wear to spine. contents in excellent condition. Signature on front free endpaper. Errata slip present. Shakespeare and Company unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 48658London: Faber and Faber 1932. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE in lovely condition. Subtitled "Fragments from WORK IN PROGRESS" TWO TALES OF SHEM AND SHAUN would later be included in parts I and III of FINNEGAN'S WAKE as symbolic of the sons of HCE. They were first published in 1929 in Paris at the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies and were quite obscure until the present Faber and Faber edition. A beautiful copy of an important stepping stone on the way to Joyce's final book. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mint green boards. Original unclipped 2s. 6d. orange dust jacket. 46 pages. Ownership stamp of B. Naumburg to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear small closed tear near middle of spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight. Faber and Faber unknown