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1933rif. 345912London: Faber & Faber 1933. First British edition. 22 pp. 12mo. Printed paper self-wrappers with unclipped flaps light overall fading saddle-sewn spine starting from top interior pages bright and clean. First British edition. 22 pp. 12mo. Slocum & Cahoon 28 Faber & Faber unknown books
1927rif. 338631Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. 24 pp. Errata slip present at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed boards. Spine toned with small losses. Very good. First edition. 24 pp. Errata slip present at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive copy of this pocket volume of Joyce's poems. Slocum A24 Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1916rif. 345922New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover. Some rubbing spine ends and slightly on corners one scratch to front cover near spine not affecting blind stamp; very clean internally. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards publisher of Dubliners Secker and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on the book if Harriet Weaver who had serialized the novel in The Egoist in 1914 would arrange for 750 copies to be published in London. It was published first in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January with the American sheets and a cancel Egoist title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11 B.W. Huebsch unknown books
1914rif. 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
1950rif. 323229n.p.: n.p. 1950. 214pp. 19pp. laid-in 8pp. autograph notes. 1 vols. 4to. Standard B&P cloth-covered three-ring binder some soiling quite good. Pages starting to yellow and some pages towards the rear tearing at binding holes. 214pp. 19pp. laid-in 8pp. autograph notes. 1 vols. 4to. Portions of Joyce's book are typed out word for word nine lines per page with five blank lines separating each line of text. The space below each line is used for word by word elaboration for example some of the words in the first page alone: "riverrun": river runs Liffey rive vers Fr. un "Armorica": Brittany love Fr. America armor "isthmus": =neck G ist muss he is he must Pages numbered 13-84 correspond to the opening roughly two-thirds of Book 1 Chapter 1. There are 19pp. of duplicate pages out of the section loosely inserted with more elaboration. Pages 595-683 correspond to the Mookes and the Gripes section of Book 1 Chapter 6. Pages 853-864 corresponds to the end of Book 1 Chapter 8 the Anna Livia Plurabelle section. Pages 1237-1256 correspond to Book 2 Chapter 3 the Mullingar Inn section. Pages 2373-2393 correspond to the opening of Book 4 Chapter 1 the final chapter of the book. n.p. unknown books
rif. 3206631970. Silver print on medium paper stamped. 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Silver print on medium paper stamped. 14 x 11 inches. Photographed in Berenice Abbott's Paris studio the iconic image of Joyce wearing a hat. According to Abbott who relied on natural light for her Paris portraits of the 1920s Joyce wore the hat because of the extreme sensitivity of his eyesight. unknown books
1920rif. 316474London: Duckworth 1920. First edition. Frontispiece and 60 other B&W photographs. 220pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition. Frontispiece and 60 other B&W photographs. 220pp. 8vo. Spence 642 Duckworth unknown books
1933rif. 315589New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1933. First Edition. Frontispiece and plates after photographs half-title. xiv 273 pp. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in pictorial clipped dust jacket by Paul Bransom as well as endpapers color pictorial endpapers. Very Good. First Edition. Frontispiece and plates after photographs half-title. xiv 273 pp. 8vo. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika and she recounts adventures hartebeest and zebra sic. Elephants were also collected as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good chapter on Mrs. Boyd's encounter with a crocodile" Czech. Czech Africa p. 33 Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1896rif. 314069Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1896. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt t.e.g. Spine a bit dull and soiled at foot. Very Good. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "An account of a fishing party in verse" Bruns also known as Dreams and Chronicles. The fishing trip on Great East Lake took place in "the seventh year of the reign of Grover when the voice of the frog was known throughout the land." Dedicated to the members of the Hopewell Club who are identified in the preface; with an additional poem "To Frank Hopewell" laid in dated May 17 1895 Goodall Camp. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J83; Heller 2:1030 Privately Printed unknown books
rif. 301592Oxford 11.10.51. WITH ANs from Gilbert Murray to Eisie above. 8vo. Fine. WITH ANs from Gilbert Murray to Eisie above. 8vo. Cary: "For Alfred Eisenstaedt one does not suffer to be fairly beautiful Oxford 11.10.51. Joyce Cary. unknown books
1911rif. 37502Bruxelles: Publiées par le Ministere des Colonies 1911. First edition. Aqurelles par Norman-H. Hardy. 403 photographs and drawings 2 fold-out maps and 29 full- page folio-size plates containing 20 color drawings 15 color plates of raffia designs 53 photographs of carved figures and objects and 14 photographs of 18th century Bombala embroidery. 1 vols. Large 4to. Original tan printed portfilo. Book loose in fasicules. Fine. wrappers slightly worn. First edition. Aqurelles par Norman-H. Hardy. 403 photographs and drawings 2 fold-out maps and 29 full- page folio-size plates containing 20 color drawings 15 color plates of raffia designs 53 photographs of carved figures and objects and 14 photographs of 18th century Bombala embroidery. 1 vols. Large 4to. Publiées par le Ministere des Colonies unknown books
1979rif. 307110Northbridge Calif: Lord John Press 1979. Copy number 19 of 50 numbered copies bound in morocco and Signed by the author. 44 2pp. 8vo. Bound in full red pebbled morocco. Copy number 19 of 50 numbered copies bound in morocco and Signed by the author. 44 2pp. 8vo. Lord John Press unknown books
1979rif. 307133Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1979. Number 5 of 50 copies signed and handbound. 8vo. Cloth and boards in slipcase. Fine. Number 5 of 50 copies signed and handbound. 8vo. Black Sparrow unknown books
1983rif. 307045Concord N.H.: William B. Ewert Publisher 167 Centre Street 1983. Number H of 40 copies handbound and signed by Artist Gilian Tyler & author Joyce Carol Oates. Illus. by Gilian Tyler. 8vo. Grey cloth and boards. Fine. Number H of 40 copies handbound and signed by Artist Gilian Tyler & author Joyce Carol Oates. Illus. by Gilian Tyler. 8vo. William B. Ewert, Publisher 167 Centre Street unknown books
rif. 302463New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co 1987. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. Folded loose sheets laid into Japanese handmade silk over boards clamshell box with lightning bolt down upper cover mirror paper interiors by the Thistle Bindery. Internally fine some minor toning to spine and portions of the box else fine. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. A stunning visual meditation upon the texts of Joyce's epiphanies executed in original etchings watercolors collages and hand-cut creations printed on various Japanese papers and on Moulin du Gue paper. The collages were executed by Vincent Fitzgerald and Zahra Partovi; the etchings were printed by Van Dyke and Maria Luisa Rojo at the Printmaking Workshop and the lithographs were printed by Van Dyke and Rhae Burden. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly and the letterpress printed by Dan Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text. A notable production singled out for notice in several key exhibitions including selective shows by Franklin Furnace and the Boston Athenaeum. Vincent Fitzgerald & Co unknown books
1916rif. 268174New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's half brown cloth and boards. Near fine in orange pictorial dust-jacket with clown holding flaming circus hoop jacket toned at spine panel with some chipping to extremities of jacket. With obituary and other contemporary notices and poem pasted in to preliminaries and final leaf and with manuscript poem "Joyce Kilmer" by George Steele Seymour on half-title. First edition first issue. viii 79 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With a fine Autograph Letter signed "Joyce Kilmer" to Miss Olson written from the front. Headquarters Co. 165th Infantry A.E.F. France n.d. but after Nov. 1917. 1-1/2 pages tipped in after title-page. "It was kind of you to send me the book of tickets and I am honored by thus becoming the guest of the Chicago Woman's Club . I'm more homesick for Chicago than for any other city in America you see Larchmont Manor isn't a city . I think you will like my poem 'Rogue Bouquet.' I am a sergeant now and never expect to go any higher. For to get a commission I'd be obliged to go to school away from the Regiment for some months and when school was over I'd be sent - whether or not I had gained a commission - not back to this Regiment but to some strange outfit. And I'd rather be a sergeant in the 69th than an officer in any other Regiment ." Kilmer was proud of his position in the "Fighting Sixty-ninth" though by his time known as the 165th Infantry and had requested permission to join its ranks. Kilmer was killed in action 30 July 1918 while scouting German machine-gun positions near the Ourcq River. BAL 11108 Laurence J. Gomme unknown books
1918rif. 27818New York: B. W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Bookplate. Edges slightly rubbed spine just slightly mottled two small nicks on top edge else a fine copy. First American edition. 154 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1978rif. 56589New York: Pach Brothers 1978. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. Mount slightly chipped image fine. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. A fine early portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio the Pach Brothers. Oates won the National Book Award in 1970 for her novel THEM and the photograph was probably taken around the time of her emergence as a major literary figure. An unusual image of Oates in formal pose WITHOUT THE GLASSES and rarely seen. Pach Brothers unknown books
1959rif. 39599London: Faber & Faber 1959. 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original orange Faber & Faber wrappers with notes on upper cover. Ellsworth Masson & Mr. Patterson written there in different hands and "About April 10" in pencil. 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collects some fifty-seven essays lectures book reviews programme notes newspaper articles letters to editors poems etc. Faber & Faber unknown books
2006rif. 16030New York: Ecco 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket unclipped $34.95 faintly bumped. Pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound a few faint stains at the edges clean internally. A collection of Oates's best stories published alongside eleven new stories. Ecco hardcover books
1936rif. 8016New York: Black Sun Press 1936. First edition. Very Good . One of 800 copies this being copy sixty-four. A Very Good copy. 165 x 115 mm. lxv 1 p. Complete with the frontisportrait of Joyce. Publisher's white paper boards stamped in dark blue with a floral border and floral device. Toning to edges of boards. A bit of foxing mostly to endpapers and some toning due to removed tape to lower endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership signature of Anne Goodwin Smith to upper free endpaper. A couple leaves unopened. Lacking the ribbon bookmark. The Collected Poems of James Joyce compiles thirteen poems including the previously unpublished "Ecce Puer" which Joyce wrote to commemorate the birth of his grandson in 1932. The collection also includes the eleven "Poems Penyeach" which had not previously been published in the United States and "Chamber Music" which had been previously published by the Viking Press. Very Good . Black Sun Press unknown books
1922rif. 7586Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition. Very Good . One of 750 copies on handmade paper from the wider first edition limitation of 1000 copies. Based on Sylvia Beach's records it has been asserted that out of the three issues of the first edition this one was sent out first. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with some marginal restoration a few small unrestored closed tears to preliminary leaves a little occasional foxing a few gatherings a little roughly opened. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell case. A Very Good copy. Arguably the key text of the Modernist movement. "Joyce not to mince words is Ireland's Shakespeare its Goethe its Racine its Tolstoy" John Sutherland. The book also proved to be a major test case for laws of freedom of expression. "Forced underground by censors this was a cryptoclassic already before it was read a subversive colossus" Sherry. Provenance: Giles Gordon was a literary agent and writer working for publishers Secker & Warburg and Gollancz the latter as Editorial Director before representing writers such as Peter Ackroyd and Vikram Seth. Slocum and Cahoon A17. 7586. Very Good . Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1981rif. 88929San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1981. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed by Adrian Wilson. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the Wilsons. Seven poems paired with multi color block prints. A terrific production. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley unknown books
1958rif. 89491NY: Viking 1958. Eighth US printing. 628 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning and a few small spots to spine. The first edition to incorporate Joyce’s corrections to the text. Much less common than the 1939 first US edition. NY: Viking unknown books
1967rif. 89690NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Light soiling to top and bottom edge else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read. NY: New Directions unknown books