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1931ref. 72641London: Faber & Faber 1931. First UK edition. Hardcover issue of which there were only 249 copies Slocum & Cahoon A42. Only Criterion Miscellany No. 26. One of a series of fragments from his "A Work in Progress" which would eventually become FINNEGANS WAKE. 12mo gilt-stamped yellow cloth boards. About near fine with endpapers darkened due to binding materials and cover edges foxed but still quite bright. Faber & Faber unknown
1950ref. 285381Paris: Gallimard 1950. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First French edition. Small nick at the base of the spine else near fine in near fine original glassine dustwrapper. Copy number 3 of 1050 numbered copies on Alfama paper. Gallimard unknown
2022ref. 10997London: Faber & Faber 2022. Fascimile. Hardcover. Fine In Fine Box. Fascimile. Hardcover. "Finnegans Wake is a novel by James Joyce written in 1939. It is considered one of the most complex books in English literature as well as being unique in its experimental writing style. The purpose of the work is to visually display this complexity. Using a classic 1965 edition by Faber and Faber the book was disbound woven and rebound respecting the original order of the pages and preserving the same cover. The new edition consists of 4 volumes covering the four parts and 450 pages of the original edition." Artist Statement Concept and weaving by Ximena Pérez Grobet. Unbinding and rebinding by Poncho Martínez. Assistant Teresa del Junco. The unique copy was placed in 2020 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Before it was sent off Ximena had the work carefully documented leaf by leaf volume by volume. She then sought to have an edition produced that might make the monumental work more accessable to a broader audience. Thus this edition embodies as much as can be captured of the original maintaining the four volumes mirroring Joyce's sections and housed in a pictorial flapped slipcase the inner flap of which contains a printed description of the project. Tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps housed in a matching flapped slipcase. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Numbered limited edition of 300. Signed by the artist. Faber & Faber hardcover
1936ref. 005500New York: Random House. First Edition First Printing. The first authorized American printing of Ulysses. Good. Discoloration to cloth wearing and torn on the ends of the spine. Some staining and discoloration to the cloth. Publishers cloth black and red titles. Eighth printing . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1936. Random House hardcover
1934ref. 002533New York: Random House 1934. This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of Joyce's classic of modernism; a landmark of 20th-Century literature. This is the Fourth Printing stated "Fourth Printing January 1934" that was issued in the same year; as the First Edition. Rebound in maroon cloth that has been decoratively stamped; titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. This is a practical solution to the poor condition of many copies grubby due to the rough oatmeal binding that attracts soiling. Clean text; 768 pages; red topstain. Touch of rub to the tips and some rubbing along the spine edges. A sound and attractive copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. Random House Hardcover
1918ref. 27818New York: B. W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Bookplate. Edges slightly rubbed spine just slightly mottled two small nicks on top edge else a fine copy. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1950ref. 285381Paris: Gallimard 1950. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First French edition. Small nick at the base of the spine else near fine in near fine original glassine dustwrapper. Copy number 3 of 1050 numbered copies on Alfama paper. Gallimard unknown books
2022ref. 10997London: Faber & Faber 2022. Fascimile. Hardcover. Fine In Fine Box. Fascimile. Hardcover. "Finnegans Wake is a novel by James Joyce written in 1939. It is considered one of the most complex books in English literature as well as being unique in its experimental writing style. The purpose of the work is to visually display this complexity. Using a classic 1965 edition by Faber and Faber the book was disbound woven and rebound respecting the original order of the pages and preserving the same cover. The new edition consists of 4 volumes covering the four parts and 450 pages of the original edition." Artist Statement Concept and weaving by Ximena Pérez Grobet. Unbinding and rebinding by Poncho Martínez. Assistant Teresa del Junco. The unique copy was placed in 2020 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Before it was sent off Ximena had the work carefully documented leaf by leaf volume by volume. She then sought to have an edition produced that might make the monumental work more accessable to a broader audience. Thus this edition embodies as much as can be captured of the original maintaining the four volumes mirroring Joyce's sections and housed in a pictorial flapped slipcase the inner flap of which contains a printed description of the project. Tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps housed in a matching flapped slipcase. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Numbered limited edition of 300. Signed by the artist. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1934ref. 69989Shanghai China 1934. Two leaves three pages on Joyce's stationery 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. approx. 375 words and an addressed envelope rubber stamped in the upper right corner "State Steamship Co. Shanghai Nov. 10 1934. Received." Accompanied by a printed Christmas card bound with green ribbon and a printed image of a green flag and ribbon for C.P.S. Wenhsing on the cover a printed sentiment on the verso and a black & white snapshot 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. of a ship tipped in. Five other black & white snapshots 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. or slightly smaller are laid in loose each captioned on the verso in Joyce's hand. Joyce writes from the Preventive Cruiser "Wen Hsing" although the return address on the envelope is for the Chinese Maritime Customs Revenue Dept. Customs House Shanghai. The letter to Capt. Dyer of the S.S. General Sherman States Steam Ship Co. Hamilton House Shanghai encloses the Christmas card and several photos Joyce presumes will interest him: "I am sorry I haven't more or better ones but my camera is too big to take around in the motor boat." One image is of the Preventive Cruiser Wen Hsing similar to the tipped in image in the card; two are of traditional Chinese Junks one captioned in some detail as a 5 masted Shantung junk; one of a fortified compound on a hill described on the verso: "we have a guard here as it has been threatened by Pirates;" and one of two captured pirates aboard ship tied up by their wrists and several others lying bleeding on the deck. Joyce goes on to respond to Dyer's questions about obtaining Chinese furniture. He notes that it is not easy to get anything ready-made and that the best recourse is to have articles made to suit. He advises the Captain to put in an order with a local company and provide a sketch of what he wants. He also reports on mutual acquaintances and says he has heard some reassuring words of praise "from uptown" for Capt. Dyer's work which he quotes: "your friend Captain Dyer is in very good repute with the line. Everything seems to go well on his ship." T.W. Joyce an American served with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from Jan. 4 1934 until Jan. 12 1941 according to records of the China Families database of men and women who worked in China between the 1850s and the 1940s sponsored by the University of Bristol. Beginning with the Treaty of Nanking in 1843 British merchants were involved in the opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade and as such were interested in the security of their ships. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service originally established in 1854 as the Imperial Maritime Customs "was a foreign-administered agency of the Chinese government. Across the nearly one hundred years of its existence some 22000 men and women but mostly men from many different nationalities served in the Customs. Half of those listed were Chinese a quarter were British. The rest included French German Japanese Americans Russians Norwegians Italians and many more." The growing international population resulted in the creation of the Shanghai International Settlement an area under international control. Joyce was in Shanghai at a volatile time. Pirates regularly attacked merchant ships along the China coast often boarding as passengers before taking over the boat robbing fellow travelers and escaping with goods and occasionally hostages. One such incident is recorded in June 1934 for the China Navigation Company's merchant ship "Shuntien." In her second voyage she was taken over by pirates who beached her along the coast between Tientsin and Chefoo taking hostages and disappearing inland. Some of the crew left behind were told the pirates were retaliating for the Chinese Maritime Customs having stationed an extra customs cruiser in Shantung Bay interfering with their smuggling routes. see: A.D.Blue's article "Piracy on the China Coast" in the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 5 1965 p. 83 In addition to dealing with piracy the increasing dominance of the Japanese in Shanghai elevated tensions with the Chinese population and resulted in the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and the Battle of Shanghai in that same year. unknown
1934ref. 69989Shanghai China 1934. Two leaves three pages on Joyce's stationery 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. approx. 375 words and an addressed envelope rubber stamped in the upper right corner "State Steamship Co. Shanghai Nov. 10 1934. Received." Accompanied by a printed Christmas card bound with green ribbon and a printed image of a green flag and ribbon for C.P.S. Wenhsing on the cover a printed sentiment on the verso and a black & white snapshot 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. of a ship tipped in. Five other black & white snapshots 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. or slightly smaller are laid in loose each captioned on the verso in Joyce's hand. Joyce writes from the Preventive Cruiser "Wen Hsing" although the return address on the envelope is for the Chinese Maritime Customs Revenue Dept. Customs House Shanghai. The letter to Capt. Dyer of the S.S. General Sherman States Steam Ship Co. Hamilton House Shanghai encloses the Christmas card and several photos Joyce presumes will interest him: "I am sorry I haven't more or better ones but my camera is too big to take around in the motor boat." One image is of the Preventive Cruiser Wen Hsing similar to the tipped in image in the card; two are of traditional Chinese Junks one captioned in some detail as a 5 masted Shantung junk; one of a fortified compound on a hill described on the verso: "we have a guard here as it has been threatened by Pirates;" and one of two captured pirates aboard ship tied up by their wrists and several others lying bleeding on the deck. Joyce goes on to respond to Dyer's questions about obtaining Chinese furniture. He notes that it is not easy to get anything ready-made and that the best recourse is to have articles made to suit. He advises the Captain to put in an order with a local company and provide a sketch of what he wants. He also reports on mutual acquaintances and says he has heard some reassuring words of praise "from uptown" for Capt. Dyer's work which he quotes: "your friend Captain Dyer is in very good repute with the line. Everything seems to go well on his ship." T.W. Joyce an American served with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from Jan. 4 1934 until Jan. 12 1941 according to records of the China Families database of men and women who worked in China between the 1850s and the 1940s sponsored by the University of Bristol. Beginning with the Treaty of Nanking in 1843 British merchants were involved in the opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade and as such were interested in the security of their ships. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service originally established in 1854 as the Imperial Maritime Customs "was a foreign-administered agency of the Chinese government. Across the nearly one hundred years of its existence some 22000 men and women but mostly men from many different nationalities served in the Customs. Half of those listed were Chinese a quarter were British. The rest included French German Japanese Americans Russians Norwegians Italians and many more." The growing international population resulted in the creation of the Shanghai International Settlement an area under international control. Joyce was in Shanghai at a volatile time. Pirates regularly attacked merchant ships along the China coast often boarding as passengers before taking over the boat robbing fellow travelers and escaping with goods and occasionally hostages. One such incident is recorded in June 1934 for the China Navigation Company's merchant ship "Shuntien." In her second voyage she was taken over by pirates who beached her along the coast between Tientsin and Chefoo taking hostages and disappearing inland. Some of the crew left behind were told the pirates were retaliating for the Chinese Maritime Customs having stationed an extra customs cruiser in Shantung Bay interfering with their smuggling routes. see: A.D.Blue's article "Piracy on the China Coast" in the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 5 1965 p. 83 In addition to dealing with piracy the increasing dominance of the Japanese in Shanghai elevated tensions with the Chinese population and resulted in the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and the Battle of Shanghai in that same year. unknown books
1993ref. 50902New York: Laura Geringer / HarperCollins 1993. Fine. Signed limited first edition of this fantastic North Pole adventure specially bound and with original slipcase - with additional Santa sketch and signature by Joyce to front fly leaf. In this beautiful picture book three children from Texas are summoned to the North Pole by SANTA himself for a magical romp. This is a scarce signed special edition of the fanciful story bound in festive red cloth. 11'' x 10.75''. Original red cloth boards with large color pictorial paste-on and gilt lettering to spine. Teal green endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout with two liftable flap letter facsimiles to rear. Typography by Christine Kettner. 21 leaves. Signed by Joyce with Santa sketch dated 94 to front fly leaf. Signed by Joyce to limitation page numbered 188 of 250. In original red cloth slipcase with gilt lettering and color pictorial paste-on. A touch of edgewear. Laura Geringer / HarperCollins unknown
1993ref. 50902New York: Laura Geringer / HarperCollins 1993. Fine. Signed limited first edition of this fantastic North Pole adventure specially bound and with original slipcase - with additional Santa sketch and signature by Joyce to front fly leaf. In this beautiful picture book three children from Texas are summoned to the North Pole by SANTA himself for a magical romp. This is a scarce signed special edition of the fanciful story bound in festive red cloth. 11'' x 10.75''. Original red cloth boards with large color pictorial paste-on and gilt lettering to spine. Teal green endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout with two liftable flap letter facsimiles to rear. Typography by Christine Kettner. 21 leaves. Signed by Joyce with Santa sketch dated 94 to front fly leaf. Signed by Joyce to limitation page numbered 188 of 250. In original red cloth slipcase with gilt lettering and color pictorial paste-on. A touch of edgewear. Laura Geringer / HarperCollins unknown books
1969ref. 278343Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Oates' first book of poetry. A beautiful as new copy and scarce thus. Louisiana State University Press hardcover
1980ref. 30910Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1980. First edition. Association Copy. Precedes the Dutton trade edition. "Special Message" by Oates for this edition. Illustrated by Joseph Ciardiello. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Inscribed by Oates on the front free endpage. "for John R. Hawkins - with warm regards and very best wishes - Joyce Carol Oates Princeton 6/5/02." Hawkins was Oates' editor for her Franklin Library publications. Boards with a touch of shelfwear and few small rubs not immediately apparent. Unread copy in Near Fine condition. The first of Oates' Gothic Saga series of novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Franklin Library hardcover
1963ref. 26491New York:The Vanguard Press Ltd 1963. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Very Good. New York:The Vanguard Press Inc. 1963. 1st edition of Author's first book. Review copy with photo of Author and card laid in. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition with a very good lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. It is not price clipped. New York:The Vanguard Press, Ltd hardcover
1983ref. 573203Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1983. Hardcover. Fine. First edition hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paste paper boards. Fine. One of 40 hardbound copies Signed by both the author and the designer of the volume Gillian Tyler. This is a presentation copy designated for bookseller and publisher George Bixby. William B. Ewert hardcover
1977ref. 368306Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Very slightly bowed else about fine in fine acetate dustwrapper. Copy 28 of 60 copies Signed with an original ink drawing by the author. Black Sparrow Press hardcover
1965ref. 566311No place: Benyas-Kaufman from Black Star 1965. Unbound. Near Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. Approximately 7" x 10". Matted. Photograph is about fine; the mat is a bit toned and is near fine. Image of Oates standing outside in a garden. The mat has been also trimmed to reveal Oates' signature in upper margin of the photo. What looks to be a publicity photo from very early in her career. Benyas-Kaufman from Black Star unknown
1977ref. 3116285Windsor: The Ontario Review. Fine with no dust jacket. 1977. Letter. Typed SIGNED letter from Joyce Carol Oates in her capacity as editor at The Ontario Review to poet Lewis Turco. Fine on single blue page of letterhead. 4 paragraphs with interesting content pertaining to Mr. Turco's submitted poems. ; 5 1/2" X 8 1/2"; 1 pages . The Ontario Review unknown
1964ref. 304053New York: Vanguard 1964. First. hardcover. fine/very good-. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Vanguard 1964. First Edition. The dust wrapper has some edge-chips & edge creases but is price intact. A very good copy of her second book and first novel. Laid in is a publicity photo of the young writer. Vanguard unknown
1968ref. 020501New York NY: Albondocani Press 1968. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Signed and Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 14 pages of text. Paperback binding in excellent condition. The attached decorative dustjacket made of Oriental Tea Chest paper has minor shelfwear; protected in custom-fitted stiff archival Mylar. Minor offsetting from dustjacket onto endpapers. Signed on the limitation page. This copy number 16 of 150. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Albondocani Press Paperback
1968ref. 277768New York: Albondocani Press 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Self-wrappers. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps small tear on top edge of front wrap still about near fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author this is copy number 4. An uncommon poetry collection. Albondocani Press unknown
1969ref. 278343Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Oates' first book of poetry. A beautiful as new copy and scarce thus. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1980ref. 30910Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1980. First edition. Association Copy. Precedes the Dutton trade edition. "Special Message" by Oates for this edition. Illustrated by Joseph Ciardiello. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Inscribed by Oates on the front free endpage. "for John R. Hawkins - with warm regards and very best wishes - Joyce Carol Oates Princeton 6/5/02." Hawkins was Oates' editor for her Franklin Library publications. Boards with a touch of shelfwear and few small rubs not immediately apparent. Unread copy in Near Fine condition. The first of Oates' Gothic Saga series of novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Franklin Library hardcover books
1983ref. 573203Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1983. Hardcover. Fine. First edition hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paste paper boards. Fine. One of 40 hardbound copies Signed by both the author and the designer of the volume Gillian Tyler. This is a presentation copy designated for bookseller and publisher George Bixby. William B. Ewert hardcover books
