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2010rif. BRG-25_4_524Charisma House 2010-06-01. paperback. UsedVeryGood. 5x0x8. Very Good condition.Crisp pages. Clean cover and pages. Book shows minimal shelf wear. No highlighting/marking. Not Satisfied Contact us to get a refund. Charisma House paperback
1936rif. 24185London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. Limited first edition first printing of Ulysses by James Joyce number 365 of 1000 published by John Lane The Bodley Head London in 1936. A fine copy with the names of two previous owner's and a date to the front free end paper boards bound in publisher's original green linen with gilt titling to the spine and gilt debossed bow graphic to the front board fading to the spine a gilt top stain to the deckle edged text block. With associated Bodley Head page of extracts of criticism for the novel: an extract from an article by Hugh Walpole on 'The Novels of the Reign' in the 1935 Jubilee edition of 'The Star' an extract from an article by J. B. Priestley in 'Clarion' 28 April 1934 and an extract from an article by E. M. Forster in 'The Author' Spring 1934. This limited edition of 1000 was divided into 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author along with 900 copies on Japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram unsigned of which this is number 365. Ulysses by James Joyce follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin 16 June 1904 while paralleling episodes from Homer's Odyssey. Through shifting styles interior monologue and extraordinary linguistic experimentation Joyce transforms ordinary events into an epic exploration of identity memory desire and human connection. Centred on Bloom Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom the novel is both famously challenging and richly comic and is widely regarded as a landmark of modernist literature. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1939rif. 106753New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Viking Press hardcover
1929rif. 2064Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. xvi 64 pp. Original printed wrappers in publisher's slipcase. One of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper of a total edition of 650 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. A fine copy with supplied later acetate wrapper in the original slipcase which is rubbed with tape repair at the corners splitting at the top edge and lacking a three-inch piece of the lower edge. Brancusi's frontispiece portrait commissioned by the publishers Harry and Caresse Crosby was a "Symbol of Joyce" intended to convey the sense of "enigmatic involution." When the sketch was shown to Joyce's father in Dublin he remarked gravely "The boy seems to have changed a good deal." Ellmann p. 614. Slocum & Cahoon A36. Minkoff Black Sun A-21. Black Sun Press unknown
1934rif. 140946820New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored cloth lettered in black and red. Very Good. CLoth with toning to spine and edges light wear to front joint. Former owner name to front free endpaper and contents tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with designer's name Reichl to bottom corner of front panel with tanning and edge wear several small splits at the joints with a mending tissue repair made to the verso of the rear spine joint. A nice copy of the once banned novel. Random House unknown
1929rif. 2064Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. xvi 64 pp. Original printed wrappers in publisher's slipcase. One of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper of a total edition of 650 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. A fine copy with supplied later acetate wrapper in the original slipcase which is rubbed with tape repair at the corners splitting at the top edge and lacking a three-inch piece of the lower edge. Brancusi's frontispiece portrait commissioned by the publishers Harry and Caresse Crosby was a "Symbol of Joyce" intended to convey the sense of "enigmatic involution." When the sketch was shown to Joyce's father in Dublin he remarked gravely "The boy seems to have changed a good deal." Ellmann p. 614. Slocum & Cahoon A36. Minkoff Black Sun A-21. Black Sun Press unknown books
1934rif. 140946820New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored cloth lettered in black and red. Very Good. CLoth with toning to spine and edges light wear to front joint. Former owner name to front free endpaper and contents tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with designer's name Reichl to bottom corner of front panel with tanning and edge wear several small splits at the joints with a mending tissue repair made to the verso of the rear spine joint. A nice copy of the once banned novel. Random House unknown books
2011rif. 220824010FaithWords 2011-11-29. Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Order today-sent today with tracking number M-F. Good ex-library book. Besides the usual labels and stamps this book also has light shelf-wear. This is a good reading copy. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio Kentucky Indiana. Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F. FaithWords paperback
1934rif. ST15753eThe Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch and 29 special signed copies on Japon. 241 x 162 mm. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8". 4 p.l. first blank 77 3 pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver blue titling on front cover and spine ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a slightly worn brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled one corner just lightly bumped otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake" beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large round and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia 1907-82 was diagnosed with schizophrenia when in her early twenties and was permanently institutionalized by 1935. She had desperately tried and failed to become a dancer and Joyce was determined to find a new artistic outlet for her believing it would be therapeutic. He hit upon the design of ornamental capitals like this one and even went so far as to give publishers the money to pay her for her work. Gotham Book Mart unknown
1934rif. ST15753eThe Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch and 29 special signed copies on Japon. 241 x 162 mm. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8". 4 p.l. first blank 77 3 pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver blue titling on front cover and spine ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a slightly worn brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled one corner just lightly bumped otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake" beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large round and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia 1907-82 was diagnosed with schizophrenia when in her early twenties and was permanently institutionalized by 1935. She had desperately tried and failed to become a dancer and Joyce was determined to find a new artistic outlet for her believing it would be therapeutic. He hit upon the design of ornamental capitals like this one and even went so far as to give publishers the money to pay her for her work. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
rif. Z1-I-026-00863Bibliolife. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. May contain underlining and/or highlighting. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Bibliolife unknown
rif. Z1-C-007-01037BiblioLife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioLife unknown
rif. 51-6404London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office and published by Joseph Mawman 39 Ludgate Street 1815. 8vo. 14.5 x 23.5cm. vi 579pp. Contemporary English binding full long-grain blue morocco wide gilt borders framing the covers spine with 5 raised bands with decorated compartments gilt-stamped letter “S” on the covers gilt edges borders of the same morocco inside and endpapers of blue silk with gilt borders. Superficial crack along spine.Presentation copy in French from Smythe . “offered as a token of esteem and friendship by the publisher an associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences Arts and Belles-Lettres of the city of Caen". Exemplaire “offert en témoignage d’estime et d’amitié par l’éditeur membre associé de l’Académie Royale des sciences arts et belles-lettres de la ville de Caen”. . Folding map as frontispiece by R. Rowe. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:230578317:Notes:Frontispiece is folded plate: chart on Mercator's Projection exhibiting Crusoe's trackEmbellished throughout text with maps and engravings. Cannot find any references to John Spencer Smythe in biographies and OCLC omits his name from the book! London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office, and published by Joseph Mawman, 39 Ludgate Street, 1815 hardcover
1916rif. 49446London: Egoist Ltd 1916. Very Good. London: Egoist Ltd. c. 1916 but 1917. First UK Edition from US sheets. Octavo 19cm; publisher's green cloth upper cover lettered in blind gilt-lettered spine; 6299pp. Shallow chipping at spine ends corners softened small soil spot to upper cover two pages with rather extensive red ink underlining; Near Very Good and sound. The first UK appearance of Joyce's autobiographical novel. In its original print run The Egoist ordered 750 sets of sheets from the US publisher B.W. Huebsch "because English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it" Slocum--under English law it was just as actionable to print obscene materials as it was to publish it. Slocum 12. Egoist Ltd unknown
1916rif. 49446London: Egoist Ltd 1916. Very Good. London: Egoist Ltd. c. 1916 but 1917. First UK Edition from US sheets. Octavo 19cm; publisher's green cloth upper cover lettered in blind gilt-lettered spine; 6299pp. Shallow chipping at spine ends corners softened small soil spot to upper cover two pages with rather extensive red ink underlining; Near Very Good and sound. The first UK appearance of Joyce's autobiographical novel. In its original print run The Egoist ordered 750 sets of sheets from the US publisher B.W. Huebsch "because English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it" Slocum--under English law it was just as actionable to print obscene materials as it was to publish it. Slocum 12. Egoist Ltd unknown books
1939rif. 140949010New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's black buckram lettered in gilt blue topstain. Near Fine with very light rubbing to extremities and bookseller stamp to back free endpaper recto. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing soiling and edgewear and contemporary bookseller ticket to rear flap. A beautiful copy of Joyce's linguistically innovative final novel. Slocum 48. The Viking Press unknown
1939rif. 133129New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Viking Press hardcover
1931rif. 82106Cleveland:: Privately Printed 1931. Unauthorized presumed second American edition; No. 58 of one hundred copies. . publisher's gilt-lettered brown cloth. Very slightest of use to the binding and extremely slight tanning to the edges of the text. 12mo. Preceded by an edition of fifty copies issued at Princeton to secure American copyright. Privately Printed, hardcover
1929rif. 000098Black Sun Press 1929. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 55pp. Heavy paper wraps black and red titles on spine with date 1929. Beautiful unmarked copy in glassine wrapper. A couple of small tears to the wrapper but the book shows no damage. Red and gold slipcase is sturdy and square. Preface by CK Ogden. Portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. Number 206 from the edition of 500 from Harry Crosby's Black Sun Press. Black Sun Press Paperback
1922rif. 665004Published for the Egoist Press London by John Rodker Paris 1922. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. First English UK edition printed in France by Maurice Darantiere Dijon. A Very Good copy bound in 3/4 blue polished calf over blue cloth spine with raised bands red morocco label and gilt tooling slight wear to binding; text has some smudging foxing and the occasionally folded page corner; half-title has a chip at top from careless opening - the chip still adhering to the conjoined leaf. 'Published for the Egoist Press' title page. Slocum & Cahoon A18; one of 2000 numbered copies printed October 1922 this copy is #487 of which 500 copies were supposedly seized and burned by the American authorities. The 8 pages of 'Errata' the latter originally laid in loose are not present. A solid leather-bound copy of one of the rarer earlier editions of Joyce's masterwork. 8 732 9 pages. PROVENANCE: Pictorial engraved bookplate of Robert Hall with 1902 date on front pastedown designed by William P. Barrett. Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris unknown
1927rif. 577975Paris: Shakespeare & Company 1927. Softcover. Very Good. Ninth printing May 1927. Small quarto. 735pp. Spine shaken with some loss affecting the titling front cover with a vertical crease wrappers edgeworn with a small chip a couple of short tears and a small stain on the lower wrap an about very good copy of a rather fragile volume; the interior is bright. Housed in a modestly worn slipcase titled in gilt. Possibly the magnum opus of the 20th Century and certainly one of the most important modern novels. Beginning in 1918 episodes of this novel were published in the American Little Review until it was banned in 1920. On publication copies of the book had to be smuggled into the United States often with the aid of rebinding. Connolly 100. Shakespeare & Company unknown
1937rif. 153423London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1937. First British trade edition of Joyce’s epic masterpiece one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the twentieth century here in a custom full-leather art binding by the binder Karen McGuire. Octavo bound in full green leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with the bow of Ulysses in maroon inlay with gilt details after Eric Gill’s original design to the front panel top stain green marbled endpapers. With a prefatory list of the previous editions of Ulysses and three appendices covering the banning of the novel the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth together with the list of writers and other notables who petitioned against it and a Joyce bibliography of eighteen titles. In very good condition. A striking artist’s binding of Joyce’s masterpiece. Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company 1922. It was a struggle for the author to find a publisher a comic irony considering that Ulysses is "universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" Grolier Joyce 69. Ulysses was an immediate success. The first printing sold out and "within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922" de Grazia 27. Even so the book faced difficulties in global reception. It was banned in the U.K. and was prosecuted for the obscenity in the Nausicaa episode Ellmann 1982. Joyce's inspiration for the novel began as a young boy reading Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses and writing an essay entitled "My Favorite Hero" after being impressed by the wholeness of the character Goreman 1939. The idea for the novel grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906 which Joyce expanded into a short book in 1907 before reconceptualizing it as the heady novel in 1914 Ellmann 1982. The book can initially seem unstructured and chaotic and Joyce admitted that he "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" The Observer 2000. The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode Gilbert explained is connected to the Odyssey by theme technique and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness a technique employing carefully structured prose both humorous and charactering and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Woolf William Faulkner and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue rather than stream of consciousness is the appropriate term for the style in which subjective experience is recorded both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" Stevenson 1992. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
2004rif. DEMO016471ISkokie Illinois: Leonid Osseny 2004. First Limited edition. Quarto. Fine. 24 computer graphic prints. A portfolio of 24 computer graphic prints numbered and signed by the artist Leonid Osseny. One of only 10 portfolios. Featured in the James Joyce Quarterly. Leonid Osseny unknown
1939rif. 140949010New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's black buckram lettered in gilt blue topstain. Near Fine with very light rubbing to extremities and bookseller stamp to back free endpaper recto. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing soiling and edgewear and contemporary bookseller ticket to rear flap. A beautiful copy of Joyce's linguistically innovative final novel. Slocum 48. The Viking Press unknown books
1927rif. 577975Paris: Shakespeare & Company 1927. Softcover. Very Good. Ninth printing May 1927. Small quarto. 735pp. Spine shaken with some loss affecting the titling front cover with a vertical crease wrappers edgeworn with a small chip a couple of short tears and a small stain on the lower wrap an about very good copy of a rather fragile volume; the interior is bright. Housed in a modestly worn slipcase titled in gilt. Possibly the magnum opus of the 20th Century and certainly one of the most important modern novels. Beginning in 1918 episodes of this novel were published in the American Little Review until it was banned in 1920. On publication copies of the book had to be smuggled into the United States often with the aid of rebinding. Connolly 100. Shakespeare & Company unknown books
