1978réf. 90880Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Limited edition. Thick octavo fully bound in green leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine.; 763 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1927réf. 020496New York: Two Worlds Publishing Company January 1927. First Edition. wraps. Slight soiling; wrinkling and chipping to spine tips. Very Good copy of this fragile periodical. Original printed stapled wraps. A bowdlerized and unauthorized reprint the fifth of thirteen published by Roth of Joyce's ULYSSES which had been banned in the United States on grounds of obscenity. Two Worlds Publishing Company paperback books
1959réf. D4897New York: Viking Press 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Original cloth near fine with just some gentle rubbing at spine tips. In VG dust jacket with small chips and scuff marks along the edges. Viking Press hardcover books
1977réf. 1410089Norwalk: Easton Press 1977. Collector's edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvii 253 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green leather. Text block has gilt edges moire endpapers gold ribbon marker. Illustrated: color frontispiece portrait color plates b&w text drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1410089. FP New Rockville Stock. Easton Press hardcover books
1951réf. 564891New York: Folkways Records 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Original long playing microgroove 12" 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album. Light wear from play else near fine in a very good cardboard sleeve with a paper label affixed to the front cover with rubbing bumping and edgewear including some splitting to the bottom. Features an introduction by Padraic Colum readings from Finnegans Wake comments from Joseph Campbell and a recording of Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle." There was also an extended double LP released this is the single LP version. Folkways Records unknown books
1952réf. 516985New York: G. Schirmer Inc 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Quarto. 11pp. Stapled wrappers. Some toning to the wrappers else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 42658. The lyrics for this song were pieced together from various lines over three pages in Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake. Writing for the National Association for the Teachers of Singing Howard Pollack says "Samuel Barber’s 1947 'Nuvoletta' the only freestanding song of his maturity has long been a niche favorite among performers critics and listeners" going on to quote James Quillian "'No matter that the words are somewhat strange; the music is positively captivating and a joy to perform.' G. Schirmer, Inc unknown books
1984réf. 154933New Market TN: Mill Springs Press 1984. First edition. Softcover. Number 6 of only 100 copies printed with Garmond type on ragston paper with a cover that is Fabriano Ingres and with an illustrations by Henry Molter. A collection of 13 poems. A very near fine copy in string tied wrappers in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Joyce on the half title page to poet Linda Pastan. Also includes a signed and handwritten letter from Joyce to Pastan as well in which she thanks her for her help. Mill Springs Press unknown books
1933réf. 19197New York: The Macaulay Company. Fair. c.1933. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket well-worn book soiling to covers and page edges ffep removed with consequent cracking to front hinge second ffep with blurb ripped almost in half and nearly detached; basically a reading copy only. A very scarce book the only novel "written" by Ms. Joyce following her 1930 quasi-memoir "Men Marriage and Me" reportedly ghostwritten by Wallace Thurman the most notorious man-chaser of her day. Clearly designed as a fictional riff on her own romantical hijinks the book tells a tale of "rich American wives who become bored with husbands who have learned nothing more than to pay their bills" and who attempt to alleviate their ennui by decamping for Paris and the Riviera to experience "the cynical degenerate life of European pleasure capitals with their dangerous traps for American woman." Well like they say: write what you know. The anonymous reviewer for the New York Times felt that the book began "on an almost painfully moralistic plane" before descending to "broad burlesque" which the critic felt was preferable: "None of the book can be taken seriously but it is much easier to read when the author herself ceases to take it seriously." Peggy's countless affairs and multiple and often profitable marriages provided rich fodder for columnists comedians and songwriters she was referenced in songs by Rodgers & Hart and Cole Porter for well over a decade until her celebrity began to fade in the mid-1930s. The year this book was published in fact might represent the apex of her career as she also appeared as herself in the Paramount film INTERNATIONAL HOUSE the last of her handful of movie appearances serving primarily as the butt of some of the film's wisecracks delivered by W.C. Fields and others. . The Macaulay Company hardcover books
1958réf. 557657New York: The Viking Press 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellmann. Preface by T.S. Eliot. Octavo. xxii 266pp. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Topedge of boards very lightly sunned bottom corner on front board lightly bumped near fine in a near fine dust jacket with faint age-toning along the spine and edges else quite fresh and clean. Contains the first appearance of the T.S. Eliot preface. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings. The Viking Press hardcover books
1993réf. 48556New York: Harper Collins 1993. Fine in fine jacket. Signed first edition of this Christmastime adventure in which three children save Santa from the Dark Elves of Toyland with an original drawing by Joyce. 11.25'' x 11.25''. Original quarter cream cloth with gilt-stamped red boards. Teal endpapers. In original unclipped $18.00 pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Joyce with two fold-out plates. Signed by Joyce on front free endpaper verso with accompanying pen sketch of an elf. Minor edgewear faint creasing to rear jacket panel. Harper Collins unknown books
1993réf. 599348New York: HarperCollins 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slightly oblong quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. HarperCollins hardcover books
1983réf. 311638Worcester Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with a lightly faded spine else fine. American Antiquarian Society hardcover books
1973réf. 274479Davis: Asian American Studies University of California Davis 1973. 139 pg. paperback 8.5x11 inches signed by Gus Lee on title page title label added to spine with tape. Coming four years after the Third World Liberation Front protests resulted in the creation of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley this conference reflects much of the early dilemmas and difficulties faced by the Asian American movement. As the title suggests even the creation of Asian American Studies was somewhat debated in terms of its utility as many worried that siloing different groups into different departments would weaken the movement. Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis unknown books
1914réf. WB17575New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1914. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing of this book by Kilmer. Printed yellow dust-jacket with other titles by the author listed on the back panel. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1914réf. 1374376New York: George H. Doran 1914. Early Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 75 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in brown paper with green text on paper spine label. Boards have slight tearing to rear cover and mild shelf wear. Textblock has splitting to rear interior hinge. Later printing indicated by plain textblock edges. BAL 11104. 1374376. Special Collections - Downstairs. George H. Doran hardcover books
1971réf. 17215Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good . First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Mississippi civil rights activist Joyce A. Ladner's pioneering sociological study of urban Black girlhood comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. "Joyce A. Ladner spent four years interviewing observing and socializing with more than a hundred girls living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She was challenged by preconceived academic ideas and labels and by her own past as a black child in rural Mississippi. Rejecting the white middle-class perspective of "deviant" behavior she examined the expectations and aspirations of these representative black girls and their feelings about parents and boyfriends marriage pregnancy and child-rearing. According to Ladner 'The total misrepresentation of the Black community and the various myths which surround it can be seen in microcosm in the Black female adolescent.'" - University of Nebraska Press Ex-Ramapo College of New Jersey Library with associated label to spine and occasional stamps to pages. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxvi 304pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket with library label to spine bumping to head and tail of spine heaving toning to flaps and library stamp to top edge of text block. Bound in light gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light soiling to cloth. Library glue to pastedowns and card to rear free endpaper. Occasional pencilled notes or underlines to pages throughout. This first edition of Mississippi civil rights activist Joyce A. Ladner's pioneering sociological study of urban Black girlhood comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. "Joyce A. Ladner spent four years interviewing observing and socializing with more than a hundred girls living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She was challenged by preconceived academic ideas and labels and by her own past as a black child in rural Mississippi. Rejecting the white middle-class perspective of "deviant" behavior she examined the expectations and aspirations of these representative black girls and their feelings about parents and boyfriends marriage pregnancy and child-rearing. According to Ladner 'The total misrepresentation of the Black community and the various myths which surround it can be seen in microcosm in the Black female adolescent.'" - University of Nebraska Press Ex-Ramapo College of New Jersey Library with associated label to spine and occasional stamps to pages. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxvi 304pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket with library label to spine bumping to head and tail of spine heaving toning to flaps and library stamp to top edge of text block. Bound in light gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light soiling to cloth. Library glue to pastedowns and card to rear free endpaper. Occasional pencilled notes or underlines to pages throughout. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1968réf. 161820N.p.: Joseph Brenner Associates 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the verso. A drug-dealing university dropout leads his straight-laced girlfriend down a path of petty crime and uninhibited sex. Set in and shot on location in Québec and Ontario Canada. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and faint toning at the extremities. Joseph Brenner Associates unknown books
1962réf. 298937Dublin: Dolmen 1962. First. pamphlet. fine. 15pp. 16mo printed wrappers. Dublin: Dolmen Press/ New York: Gotham Book Mart 1962. First Edition. Fine. A Memorial Address delivered at King's Inns Dublin. Dolmen unknown books
1973réf. 612889New York: Doubleday and Company 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 160pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing and hint of toning. A nice copy of a poorly made book. First appearing as a long article in The New York Times Magazine the photograph of the youthful Maynard attracted J.D. Salinger's attention and they began a brief but notorious affair. Doubleday and Company hardcover books
1980réf. 588352Iowa City Iowa: The Happy Press 1980. Softcover. Fine. No. 10. Small quarto. Various colored sheets stapled along the spine. Fine. An anthology of poems "cartoonized" by Dave Morice. This issue includes complete or partial poems by Darrell Gray Robert Browning Walter Savage Landor Gerard Manley Hopkins Joyce Holland Ben Jonson William Blake and David Gitin. The Happy Press unknown books
1988réf. 212893North Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Presentation House Gallery 1988. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran April 16 through May 15 1988. Single sheet folded three times to create 8 pages. Features a short text by Karen Love and a poem by Neimanas. Includes 6 black and white images biographical information a chronology of exhibitions a bibliography and a checklist. A clean near fine copy. Uncommon. Presentation House Gallery unknown books
2003réf. 513486New York: The Modern Library 2003. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Originally published in 1967; re-issued as part of the series Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery. The Modern Library unknown books
1977réf. 5082Northridge: Lord John Press 1977. First edition broadside limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Oates. Copy #165. Illustrated broadside. Aprx. 15.5 X 11 inches. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued. Limited Edition. Lord John Press Paperback books
1979réf. 40736Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1979. First edition numbered & signed issue. 227 pp. Foxing along top edge else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. This is copy #1. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, hardcover books
1973réf. 625439Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Binding slightly cocked else fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and a lightly sunned spine. Signed by the author on the title page. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books