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1968ref. 48671New York: The Viking Press 1968. Near fine. First printing of this early James Joyce poem about his infatuation with a student composed around 1914 but long unpublished. This attractive work not only offers a brief history of the poem but contains facsimiles of all 16 pages of the original manuscript. An interesting look at Joyce's writing before the longer works that would define his career. 8.75'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards with title label to front. In original slipcase with title label to front. Illustrated in black and white with two fold-out plates. xviii 16 18 6 pages. Slipcase with a hint of sunning to edges. Binding with a touch of sunning to spine. Tight. The Viking Press unknown books
1980ref. 36148New York: Pyxidium Press 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Association copy: signed and inscribed by Baronio to photographer Joe Gioia. Folio 38.5 cm pp. unpaginated 96. Gray photographic boards and jacket with $40 price. Gray endpapers. Full-page black and white photographic plates or Baronio's models mostly nudes shot in her 42nd St. studio. Forward by Baronio introduction by Linda Nochlin. Bumping and staining to foot of spine. The last three plates are creased at the top corner with a half-inch tear in the white border outside the photos.Gioia was a senior editor at Modern Photography a contributing editor at American Photo an early contributor to Salondotcom and the author of The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History and Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book comes from his private estate. Pyxidium Press hardcover books
1984ref. 63066Northridge: Lord John Press 1984. First Limited Edition. One of 125 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.12. Slim octavo 23.75cm; letterpress printed sheets string-tied into publisher's original unprinted white card wrappers; folded decorative paper dustjacket with title label mounted to upper front cover; 20pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. An attractive fine press production by the northern California publisher collecting six poems by Oates. Lord John Press unknown books
1973ref. 9306Garden City: Doubleday and Company Inc 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed and with a drawing by Maynard on the title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket unclipped $5.95 lightly toned and soiled some small bumps and creases to the edges and corners. Blue cloth rubbed at the edges and some fraying at the top with gilt and red ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean clean internally. Maynard's memoir written during her time having an affair with J.D. Salinger. Doubleday and Company, Inc hardcover books
1966ref. 47832Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1966. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this story of a US teacher who convinces a Welsh boy who may or may not be part witch that school is worthwhile. Trina Schart Hyman the NEW YORK TIMES notes "illustrated an entire shelf of children's books and inspired many others who worked in the genre." Hyman illustrated over 150 books over her busy career for which she earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors. In addition to her work for children's books she served as an art director and staff artist for beloved children's magazine CRICKET from 1972-1979. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped $3.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 176 pages. Inscribed by Varney to front flyleaf "To Margaret Coit / With all my Love." Jacket with some edgewear; spine a bit toned with short chip to spine head slightly affecting author name. Binding with scattered soil light bumping to spine ends. Interior clean and bright. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc unknown books
1976ref. 48508Cutchogue New York: Buccaneer Books 1976. Fine. Limited reissue of this effort to unpuzzle Joyce's famously inscrutable masterpiece. 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth. No dust jacket. One of 350 copies. 298 pages. Sharp. Buccaneer Books unknown books
1927ref. 48657Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Very good plus. Ninth printing of James Joyce's masterpiece one of the great works of literature in English. ULYSSES first saw print in the modernist literary magazine THE LITTLE REVIEW edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. Midway through their serialization issues of the magazine were seized and the editors were brought to trial in the fall of 1920. When they were convicted ULYSSES was abandoned only about half of it published. This disaster led to the now iconic publication of the book by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Company of which this copy is a ninth printing. 8'' x 6.25''. Later blue cloth boards. 736 pages. Leaves with a touch of toning light edgewear. Firm. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1932ref. 48658London: Faber and Faber 1932. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE in lovely condition. Subtitled "Fragments from WORK IN PROGRESS" TWO TALES OF SHEM AND SHAUN would later be included in parts I and III of FINNEGAN'S WAKE as symbolic of the sons of HCE. They were first published in 1929 in Paris at the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies and were quite obscure until the present Faber and Faber edition. A beautiful copy of an important stepping stone on the way to Joyce's final book. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mint green boards. Original unclipped 2s. 6d. orange dust jacket. 46 pages. Ownership stamp of B. Naumburg to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear small closed tear near middle of spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight. Faber and Faber unknown books
1994ref. 55764Concord NH: William B. Ewert Publisher 1994. First Edition. One of 50 copies signed by the author. Broadside with text letterpress printed in black and blue on pale grey laid paper measuring 18.25cm x 24cm 7.25" x 9.5". A Fine copy of this broadside poem which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. William B. Ewert, Publisher unknown books
1914ref. 45272New York: George H. Doran Company 1914. Very good plus in original dust jacket. Early printing of this poetry collection by early-20th century US American writer Joyce Kilmer uncommon in dust jacket. This was Joyce Kilmer's second collection of poetry containing his most popular poem "Trees." It is uncommon in the original dust jacket. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown boards with paper title labels to front and spine. Original unclipped unpriced dust jacket with green accents. 76 pages. Bookplate to front pastedown. Jacket with some edgewear several small early tape repairs to edges; spine somewhat sunned. Binding with light edgewear mild bumping to corners and spine ends. Bookblock with scattered foxing to edges. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1936ref. 57400London: Gollancz 1936. First Edition. First impression. Octavo 20cm. Black cloth titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp. Faint foxing to text block edges else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper priced 8/6 net on spine panel; slightly dusty and toned with a ca. 1/2" closed tear on rear panel and a shade darkened on spine still Very Good. Cary's third published book based on his own service as a colonial administrator in Nigeria. Gollancz unknown books
1963ref. 52268New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; brown cloth with titles stamped in silver and orange on spine and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; 1112-2533pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Tiny wrinkle to spine ends else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $4.50 with gentle sunning to spine and some trivial wear to extremities. The author's first book and first collection of short fiction gathering 14 stories told "within a framework of realism in a world of sex and blood of poverty and poetry" from front flap. The Vanguard Press, Inc unknown books
1987ref. 52374Northridge: Lord John Press 1987. First Limited Edition. One of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.134. Octavo 23.5cm; green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; vi233pp. A Fine copy without dustjacket as issued. A fine press publication collecting six poems three of which first appeared in the pages of The Hudson Review The New York Times Magazine and Poetry. Lord John Press unknown books
1977ref. 52275Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.121. Quarto 26cm; pictorial paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 1011-244pp. Tiny indentation to upper rear board edge else very Near Fine in a lightly shelfworn Near Fine dustjacket. A slim attractive volume collecting 12 poems several of which first appeared in the pages of The Hudson Review the Nation The New Republic and Poetry Northwest. One of the few volumes of Oates's work published by Black Sparrow for which there was no simultaneous wrappered issue. MORROW & COONEY 284a. Black Sparrow Press unknown books
1984ref. 52376Northridge: Lord John Press 1984. First Limited Edition. One of an undetermined number marked "Presentation Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Slim octavo 23.5cm; letterpress-printed sheets sewn into original unprinted white card wrappers; folded patterned paper dustjacket with title label mounted to front cover; 20pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Slim volume collecting six poems four of which first appeared in the pages of Bennington Review Georgia Review Poetry and Southern Review. The entire run consisted of 125 copies in wrappers with 26 lettered copies bound in boards. Lord John Press unknown books
1936ref. 52662London: Gollancz 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm.; black boards embossed in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp.; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; spine ends gently pushed; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with faint soil to front panel and light toning to the jacket spine; Near Fine. Author's third novel set in Nigeria between the wars. Gollancz unknown books
1933ref. 912London: Faber and Faber 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. First U.K. edition after the original Shakespeare and Company edition in 1927. Near fine in blue paper-covered wraps priced at 1/- net lightly sunned. Square and firmly bound with string a bookplate from William Ayer Peters affixed to the front flap. A collection of thirteen poems which contains the popularly-anthologized "Tilly" "A flower given to my daughter" "On the beach at Fontana" and "Bahnhofstrasse. Faber and Faber paperback books
1956ref. 24052Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1956. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's green cloth gilt-lettered spine in original glassine dust jacket; xxix1146pp. Glassine spine toned a few tiny losses at top edge of rear panel otherwise Fine. The first in a series of three "Censuses" by the Joyce scholar. Northwestern University Press unknown books
1970ref. 29411Pittsburgh: Know Inc 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.25cm.; two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner. Minor wear from handling manuscript number to top right-hand corner as issued. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece apparently unlocated in OCLC as of April 2016. Know, Inc unknown books
1970ref. 29410Pittsburgh: Know Inc 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.25cm.; two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner; printed on pale blue stock. About Fine. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece. OCLC notes a single holding at U.Virginia Nov.2018. Know, Inc unknown books
1939ref. 1403209Faber and Faber London 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Faber & Faber UK 1939. Signed Limited Numbered. One of 425 Limited edition copies. Signed by James Joyce. Pages are clean; text is unmarked binding is tight and square. Light wear to cloth boards at spine ends and edges. Text block is clean. Hard cover in original salmon cloth with titles on spine in gilt top edge gilt fore edge and foot of handmade paper untrimmed. Housed in an expertly restored yellow slipcase inside a custom slipcase. Faber and Faber, London hardcover books
1932ref. 1503602Odyssey Press 1932. 5th or later Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 2 Vols. First Odyssey Press edition 1932 Hamburg may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert. Very good in wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Odyssey Press unknown books
1979ref. 350431Northridge California: Lord John Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. Full morocco. Fine. One of 50 numbered copies of a total edition of 350 bound thus and Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1905ref. 008638London: John Baillie 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Very Good or better. Decorated cloth. The second of only two issues of this annual to be printed. Includes "Two Songs" by James Joyce preceding his first book CHAMBER MUSIC by two years. Other contributors to this annual include Arthur Symons Alice Meynell Oliver Gogarty and illustrators J. McNeil Whistler Frank Brangwyn Arthur Rackham and J. S. Sargent. Two of the minor illustrations lacking in this copy. John Baillie hardcover books
2003ref. 71661Burton: Subterranean Press 2003. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. #388 of 1250cc signed by Joyce on the publisher's limitation page. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Subterranean Press hardcover books
