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1929réf. 22621Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in original glassine nicked with some minor loss. Brancusi Constantin. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The three fragments are entitled; "The Mookse and the Gripes. The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump. The Ondt and the Gracehoper." Binding by Andrea Kohler. The three fragments comprise pp. 152-159 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of "Finnegans Wake." The image by Brancusi is a graphic work. THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960" notes: "A portrait as abstract as the author's text." This was one of the last books printed at the Black Sun Press. Crosby committed suicide in December 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. Kohler binding in fine red velvet and gold framed slipcase housed in fine black leather spine folding box lettered in red and black. Black Sun Press hardcover books
1934réf. 72391New York: Random House 1934. First U.S. edition to be authorized. Preceded by a 1929 piracy printed in New York for Samuel and Max Roth Slocum & Cahoon A21. In first-issue dust jacket with designer's name on front panel. "Complete and unabridged" this U.S. edition adds a foreword by Morris Ernst the "historic decision by Judge John M. Woolsey" that removed the U.S. federal ban on the book and Joyce's letter to publisher Bennett Cerf expressing his hopes for an American publication. 8vo rough beige cloth boards lettered in black and red; top edge brown; 768 pages. Near fine with subtle soiling and touch of light foxing to upper boards; in very good to near fine dust jacket with light professional repair to edges and folds and spot of soiling affecting few words in publisher's ads on rear panel. Random House unknown books
réf. 31026AB1975. London and other places Penguin / Picador / Oxford University Press / etc. 1975 - 1997. Octavo. More than 2000 pages. Original Hardcover / Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The price of the collection includes free international shipping per UPS Express. paperback
1974réf. SBBIH-AINBRO2UXASKMills & Boon 1974. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Mills & Boon hardcover
1992réf. SBBI-mon0000110932Imperial War Museum 1992. hardcover. Acceptable. Dustjacket missing; may have other wear and tear. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Imperial War Museum hardcover
1974réf. SBBI-mon0000029642Cambridge University Press 1974. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Cambridge University Press paperback
1936réf. 192844London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery First UK edition limited issue number 870 of 900 copies on japon vellum and bound in buckram from a total edition of 1000 copies. The Bodley Head Ulysses established the text for the succeeding 25 years. The famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in America on the publishing of the book is printed as an appendix together with the International Letter of Protest 1927 against Samuel Roth's piracy of Ulysses to which over 167 literary and intellectual figures put their names including Wyndham Lewis E. M. Forster Albert Einstein Ernest Hemingway W. B. Yeats D. H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot. Ulysses was first published in Paris in 1922 by Shakespeare and Company. Large octavo. Original green buckram spine lettered in gilt Homeric bow device designed by Eric Gill on front cover in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed. Ownership inscription on first blank. Spine sunned bumps to extremities. A very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A23. hardcover
1916réf. 152253New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First American edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel. Octavo original publisher's blue cloth titles stamped in blind to the front panel. In very good condition. Housed in a custom hand-painted board slipcase in good condition. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man New York 1916; London 1917 is the first novel of James Joyce 1882-1941 and one of the foundational texts of literary modernism a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman tracing the intellectual spiritual and artistic development of Stephen Dedalus from earliest childhood through his rejection of Irish Catholicism nationalism and family obligation and his determination to pursue his vocation as an artist in voluntary exile from everything that had formed him. Originally composed as the abandoned manuscript Stephen Hero beginning in 1904 the novel was radically reconceived and rewritten in the stream of consciousness technique that would define Joyce's mature style serialized in Harriet Shaw Weaver's literary journal The Egoist from February 1914 to September 1915 before appearing in book form with its American publication by B.W. Huebsch preceding the British Egoist Press edition. The epitome of the modernist Bildungsroman the novel was controversial from the moment of its publication with contemporary readers finding its treatment of the minutiae of daily life indecorous and its central character unappealing while Ezra Pound accurately predicted that the book would remain a permanent part of English literature and H.G. Wells praised its originality and courage in the New Republic. It was chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
réf. L3 box798 b3Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary Xin Hua2 Zi4 Dian3 Revised. This dictionary is combined and revised from Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary and Xin Hua2 Zi4 Dian3. By Peter C. Huang Joyce M. Huang; Editors: Frank C. Huang Jean J. Huang Faye F. Huang. 2011 Taius Press. Hardcover 1470 pages. 1. This dictionary is combined and revised from Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary and Xin Hua2 Zi4 Dian3. 2. The main character is in Chinese Traditional or Taiwan with simplified character adding counted stroke serial number phonetic alphabetic phonation and Pinyin into main character string. 3. Romanization is used in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary Robert H. Mathews and Pinyin is used in Xin Hua2 Zi4 Dian3; the former is revised into Pinyin for main character's phonation. 4. The reason of using Pinyin to replace Romanization is that the former uses more English alphabets to represent the phonetic alphabets. Hence its phonation is more accurate. 5. Almost the whole part of Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary text is shifted into this dictionary. It collects Chinese characters and phrases along with English to the utmost and good for reference in translation reading and understanding. Xin Hua2 Zi4 Dian3 is in Pinyin and in Chinese-Chinese structure. They are referred and excerpted into this dictionary. Hence this dictionary covers all main characters from the said two dictionaries. 6. Used Pinyin is transliterated from Phonetic Alphabets the latter used for the phonation of Chinese traditional are the bases for Pinyin. hardcover
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. Laid in is the very rare folio sheet folded to pamphlet form entitled "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Ulysses" presented with the compliments of Random House to the original buyers of the book. 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
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 books
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. Laid in is the very rare folio sheet folded to pamphlet form entitled "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Ulysses" presented with the compliments of Random House to the original buyers of the book. Random House unknown books
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
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
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
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
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
réf. 21650Fin des années quarante, grand tirage argentique 29,1x23,5 en noir et blanc représentant Joyce dans un profil de trois quarts à l’intérieur de la librairie Shakespeare & Co à Paris, avec le titre de la main de Gisèle Freund: «Eine attitude von Joyce», et le timbre imprimé du photographe au verso. Photographie reproduite dans le James Joyce de Freund à Paris: Ses dernières années, New York, Harcourt Brace and World Inc., 1965.
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
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