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1924Best.-Nr. 518367Paris: Editions de La Sirene 1924. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. First French edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Translated by Ludmila Savitzky. Octavo. 280pp. Cream-colored printed wrappers. Pages lightly toned modest age-toning near fine in near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Editions de La Sirene unknown
1918Best.-Nr. 001242New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. Despite his interst in the theatre this is James Joyce's only published play. Rejected by Yeats for the Abbey it did not receive a major production until that directed by Harold Pinter in 1970. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition generally considered to have had a very small press run. Clean text; 154 pages. Lighr gray paper boards blindstamped on the front cover with author and title; green linen spine with gilt lettering. Moderate wear and minor rubbing; the spine lettering is still bright. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. B.W. Huebsch Hardcover
1957Best.-Nr. 509776Evanston Illinois: Department of English Northwestern University 1957. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate edition consisting of the entire issue of No. 14 of the periodical The Analyst. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. Quarto. 16pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Folded for mailing else a near fine copy in original publisher's mailing envelope addressed to bibliographer and scholar Donald Gallup. A James Joyce "A" item being the first separate appearance of From A Banned Singer. The entire issue was devoted to this prose work by Joyce originally published in 1932 with notes of explication by the editors. Very scarce. Department of English Northwestern University unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 80810Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. 22 pp. One by two inch sticker scar to rear cover else near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Errata slip tipped-in after the colophon. Slocum & Cahoon A24. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 25907London:: Faber and Faber 1933. First UK edition. publisher's wrappers. Slight browning to spine; but a fresh near fine copy. 12mo. Faber and Faber, unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 241595London: Faber and Faber 1975. Facsimile edition first printing thus. Publisher's blue cloth titled in white housed in publisher's plain white slipcase. All volumes fine in near fine slipcase. Faber and Faber unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 001348Hamburg Paris Bologna: Odyssey Press 1935. Two volumes 400 pages 2nd volume continues pages 401 to 792. With additions and corrections by Stuart Gilbert this is still considered by many to be the definitive text a controversial subject among Joyce scholars and on which Quercus offers no opinion. These are however very nice copies from this First Edition Thus the Third Printing August 1935. "Ulysses" was still banned and there is the disclaimer "Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the USA" on the rear boards. Very Good condition issued in wraps: stiff light gray paper covers with maroon lettering that have less wear and tear than is usually encountered. Creasing to the front corners indicates that the work was actually read; minor wrinkling to the head and foot of the spines; minor foxing seen on the edges. Lacking the slipcase these are now in archival plastic protectors. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Odyssey Press Paperback
1918Best.-Nr. 349039Boston: Cornhill Co 1918. 40p 4.5x6.25 inches slim hardcover bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles on the front cover ink note on front free endpaper light dampstain to several pages at upper corners mild shelf wear. True first unauthorized US edition published months before the authorized edition by B. W. Huebsch. Believed to be 1000 copies. Originally published in London in 1907 by Elkin Mathews. Slocum & Cahoon A5. Cornhill Co unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 518367Paris: Editions de La Sirene 1924. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. First French edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Translated by Ludmila Savitzky. Octavo. 280pp. Cream-colored printed wrappers. Pages lightly toned modest age-toning near fine in near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Editions de La Sirene unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 509776Evanston Illinois: Department of English Northwestern University 1957. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate edition consisting of the entire issue of No. 14 of the periodical The Analyst. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. Quarto. 16pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Folded for mailing else a near fine copy in original publisher's mailing envelope addressed to bibliographer and scholar Donald Gallup. A James Joyce "A" item being the first separate appearance of From A Banned Singer. The entire issue was devoted to this prose work by Joyce originally published in 1932 with notes of explication by the editors. Very scarce. Department of English Northwestern University unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 80810Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. 22 pp. One by two inch sticker scar to rear cover else near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Errata slip tipped-in after the colophon. Slocum & Cahoon A24. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. mon0003739721Ecco 2000-04-05. Hardcover. Like New. 2.0000 9.3000 6.4000. First edition first printing with 1 in the full numberline. Signed by the author on the title page without inscription. Dust jacket fine in mylar sleeve. A copy in fine condition. Ecco hardcover
1966Best.-Nr. 1080851NY: Vanguard Press 1966. First edition first prnt. Signed by Oates on the title page. Additionally above her signature she has written "with warm regards." Cloth spine ends lightly wrinkled; dustjacket with corners and spine ends just touched and shallow wrinkle on the flaps' topedges. A bright tight copy. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates' third book second story collection. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vanguard Press Hardcover
1966Best.-Nr. 1080851NY: Vanguard Press 1966. First edition first prnt. Signed by Oates on the title page. Additionally above her signature she has written "with warm regards." Cloth spine ends lightly wrinkled; dustjacket with corners and spine ends just touched and shallow wrinkle on the flaps' topedges. A bright tight copy. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates' third book second story collection. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vanguard Press Hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 8206Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. Fine/Glassine Wrappers. Hard Cover Set. This four volume collection presents the first four years of SPARROW the literary broadsheet published monthly through the years by Black Sparrow Press beginning in October 1972 through September 1976. The individual issues average 16 pages each each issue the work of an individual author and are bound in order in volumes which were issued in 1973 1974 1975 and 1976. Some of the best writers in modern literature are featured in prose and poetry including several contributions from Charles Bukowski Paul Bowles Tom Clark Michael McClure Antonin Artaud and many other writers published through the years by Black Sparrow. Each volume is Fine and bound in colored cloth with paste-down label to front and a clear acetate wrapper. . Black Sparrow Press hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 76598New York NY.: RAW Junior LLC. Fine. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060286288 . This book is hard-bound in color pictorially printed paper covered boards with a blue spine with white and yellow printing. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with nice color illustrations throughout done by various artists. This book is signed by 5 of the artists/illustrators who contributed to the book Art Spiegelman Barbara McClintock Neil Gaiman Lemony Snicket and Francoise Mouly. ; 13.5 X 9.6 X 0.4 inches; 48 pages; Signed by Illustrator . RAW Junior LLC hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 76598New York NY.: RAW Junior LLC. Fine. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060286288 . This book is hard-bound in color pictorially printed paper covered boards with a blue spine with white and yellow printing. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with nice color illustrations throughout done by various artists. This book is signed by 5 of the artists/illustrators who contributed to the book Art Spiegelman Barbara McClintock Neil Gaiman Lemony Snicket and Francoise Mouly. ; 13.5 X 9.6 X 0.4 inches; 48 pages; Signed by Illustrator . RAW Junior LLC hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 26100New York: RAW Junior/Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins 2003. Hardcover. SIGNED by SIX contributors. First edition first printing. The third anthology of modern comics edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly with contributions by Lemony Snicket and Richard Sala Neil Gaiman and Gahan Wilson William Joyce Kaz J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh Barbara McClintock Martin Handford R. Sikoryak Patrick McDonnell Tony Millionaire Carlos Nine Basil Wolverton Joost Swarte and the cover by Spiegelman. SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN & SEIBOLD on the title page each with an original drawing and a non-personalized inscription by Spiegelman; also on the title page SIGNED BY GAIMAN JOYCE MCCLINTOCK & MOULY. Additionally Seibold & Joyce have signed a second time on their respective pages. 48 pages illustrated endpapers; color illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 13.5 inches. Condition: Fine/As New hardcover; no dj as issued. LAID-IN is the "Little Lit Activity Book"--a 4 page 10x13 promotional piece for the book--with "Silly Diversions" by Millionaire McClintock and Sikoryak. Ships the next business day wrapped in padding in a box. Due to size and weight international and expedited shipping may be more than quoted. RAW Junior/Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. 535112San Jose: Firesign Press 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A tiny sticker shadow on the half-title else fine in near fine toned jacket with a couple small tears. Signed by the author. African-American poet's scarce first book published by an obscure press. Firesign Press hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. 535112San Jose: Firesign Press 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A tiny sticker shadow on the half-title else fine in near fine toned jacket with a couple small tears. Signed by the author. African-American poet's scarce first book published by an obscure press. Firesign Press hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 2354232Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1976. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 13x9x1. 2nd printing. A few minor blemishes to rear jacket panel otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. 255 1 pp. A fascinating glimpse into the planning production and profitability of a printed work from the age of incunabula. The Nuremberg Chronicle is unique in that records of each of these exist and are available for scholarly study. Wilson offers a detailed study of the making of an early illustrated book taken from surviving page layouts original contracts for the illustrations contracts for printing etc. and also provides a history of the printer Anton Koberger and a list of known copies of the first Latin and German editions. Nico Israel hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 3941Austin TX: W. Thomas Taylor 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A truly fine copy with the prospectus protected in a publisher-provided heavy plexiglass slipcase. This copy inscribed by Wilson to Carol Cunningham owner of Sunflower Press of Mill Valley CA. The plexiglass slipcase does an excellent job of protecting the book. The clear slipcase shows some scuffs inevitably. This is a key bibliography for twentieth century American fine-press printing. Wilson provides detailed commentary on almost all of the books he designed as well as many delightful stories about the world of fine printing in the 1950s-1970s. Very heavy ships USA only. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 57324Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 158pp. Folio 41 cm 1/4 brown leather with tan cloth over boards. Tipped-in frontispiece of Wilson by Ansel Adams. The boards are lightly soiled. May require extra postage due to weight. Number 318 in an edition limited to 325 copies. Adrian Wilson designed and printed this attractive book with the assistance of Margery Cantor Zahid Sardar and Jim Wehlage at the Press in Tuscany Alley San Francisco. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 2354232Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1976. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 13x9x1. 2nd printing. A few minor blemishes to rear jacket panel otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. 255 1 pp. A fascinating glimpse into the planning production and profitability of a printed work from the age of incunabula. The Nuremberg Chronicle is unique in that records of each of these exist and are available for scholarly study. Wilson offers a detailed study of the making of an early illustrated book taken from surviving page layouts original contracts for the illustrations contracts for printing etc. and also provides a history of the printer Anton Koberger and a list of known copies of the first Latin and German editions. Nico Israel hardcover books
1983Best.-Nr. 57324Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 158pp. Folio 41 cm 1/4 brown leather with tan cloth over boards. Tipped-in frontispiece of Wilson by Ansel Adams. The boards are lightly soiled. May require extra postage due to weight. Number 318 in an edition limited to 325 copies. Adrian Wilson designed and printed this attractive book with the assistance of Margery Cantor Zahid Sardar and Jim Wehlage at the Press in Tuscany Alley San Francisco. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books