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1992ref. 569082New York: Dutton 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth printing. Very good in rubbed very good dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
1939ref. 6104London: Faber and Faber 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded minor chips and tears mostly a the extremities and some smudges to the jacket panels. Among the most influential and complex Modernist works Finnegans Wake "blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive of the novel inspired by the 18th century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico is that history is cyclical.the novel's plot is nearly as complex as the linguistic tactics deployed by Joyce who combined a number of languages and utilized complex sonic implications to create an atmosphere of wordplay and hidden meaning throughout the entirety of Finnegans Wake" Britannica. A natural progression from his earlier masterpiece Ulysses Finnegans Wake shows Joyce pressing his ability to weave together numerous languages cultural mythologies and national literatures to defy boundaries and binaries we so often lean on to understand the world. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Faber and Faber unknown 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
1993ref. 9029630New York: Dutton 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original quarter cloth with spine stamped in red. 5 7/8 x 9 inches. 328 pages. Dutton hardcover books
1970ref. 97678Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0807108456 . Second printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Louisiana State University Press, hardcover books
2007ref. 9028886New York: Harper Collins 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original white paper stamped in blind on cover stamped in gilt on spine. 582 p. Harper Collins hardcover 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
1978ref. 9028393Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Elizabeth Hansell. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated by Elizabeth Hansell. Bound in publisher's original aqua cloth with spine lettered in oxblood. Dust jacket is priced clipped. Louisiana State University Press hardcover 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
1916ref. 3926New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good . A Very Good copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good . B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1916ref. 2940New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One innovation is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1977ref. 9025892New York: Random House 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Edited translated and introduced by Louis Berone. Spine is a bit sunned. Random House hardcover books
2003ref. 9025669Boston: Bulfinch 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. With 103 tritone photographs. Bulfinch hardcover 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
1990ref. 9025499New York: Ecco 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Ecco hardcover books
1992ref. 9023347Oxford: Oxford University 1992. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards spine and cover stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed at the edges and extremities. Front hinge has started but is holding. Oxford University hardcover 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
1992ref. 248197New York: Dutton 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover has bumped corners dust jacket chipped at edges and spine. Dutton hardcover books
1980ref. 198603New York: E. P. Dutton 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First trade edition. Foxing price inked on front fly stains on bottom of boards very good in a lightly browned and slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
