Joyce, JamesABAA
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1939réf. 140947977London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine yellow topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to fly-leaf and final page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial toning to spine. Housed in a custom clamshell case black cloth over quarter black morocco titled in gilt. A beautiful copy of Joyce's famously complex and linguistically innovative novel scarce in this condition. One of an edition of 3400 copies of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. Slocum A48. Faber and Faber unknown books
1917réf. 140947159London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First British Edition. Very Good. First English edition printed from English sheets preceded by a first American edition and an English edition that was bound using the American sheets because English printers would not accept responsibility for printing it. Signed by James Joyce on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Baron Ambrose Ralli "in grateful remembrance of 21 June 1915" signed in Trieste on 8 November 1919. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with slight lean to binding fading to spine with fraying to crown light soiling to cloth and crease to bottom corner of rear board. Occasional pencil annotations and corner creases; front hinge a bit tender and offsetting and foxing to endpapers. An important presentation copy to a friend of Joyce's Baron Ambrose Paul Ralli 1876-1938. Here he his thanking Ralli for his crucial role in helping his family flee Italy during World War I. When Italy declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in May 1915 Joyce was compelled to flee Trieste. Baron Ralli and Count Francesco Sordina provided essential support during this perilous time. The date of remembrance June 21st is likely the day Joyce escaped. The Baron championed Joyce's literary career and was the sole subscriber to Ulysses in Trieste. Slocum & Cahoon 13. The Egoist Ltd unknown books
1935réf. 140947396New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First illustrated edition of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece. One of a limited 250 copies signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse from an edition of 1500 total the majority of which were only signed by Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown; housed in the original tan cardstock slipcase with spine stamped in brown. 363 p. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to spine ends corners and gilt at raised relief on upper board. In a Very Good slipcase with soiling and light wear and a short repair to the seam at the opening along the bottom edge. A wonderful copy housed in a custom brown cloth solander case with morocco spine label stamped in gilt. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. Slocum & Cahoon 22. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1907réf. 140946996London: Elkin Mathews 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of James Joyce's first trade book and one of 509 copies originally printed. Second issue with thick wove endsheets. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth foxing to endsheets and preliminary matter contents tanned. A beautiful copy of this collection of poems with the title being derived from the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot. Slocum & Cahoon 3. Elkin Mathews unknown books
1916réf. 140946344New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition utilizing English sheets first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a national identity was raging. The country was at a cultural crossroads which Joyce felt was responsible for a collective paralysis. He conceived of Dubliners as a "nicely polished looking-glass"held up to the Irish and a "first step towards their spiritual liberation." Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in green; one of 504 sets of sheets which were imported by Huebsch from the British publisher Grant Richards. Title page is a cancel printed on laid paper with "Utopian" watermark. 278pp. Near Fine textblock edge lightly dust-soiled and with a faint stain to the bottom edge pages tanned. In the incredibly rare original dust jacket Near Fine tanned and lightly edge worn with several short closed tears several droplet stains to spine panel with chipping to ends lightly rubbed. A beautiful example entirely free of repair or restoration. A major work of twentieth-century literature seldom if ever seen in jacket. Slocum & Cahoon 9. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1935réf. 140946387New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1500 signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown. Fine with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1927réf. 140946444London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Good. First trade edition first printing. A fantastic association copy signed by legendary publisher Sylvia Beach with a contemporary inscription dated Paris August 18 1928 opposite rear paste-down. Bound in publisher's pale green boards faded to tan with errata slip tipped in at rear. Good with cracking at spine leaving binding very fragile cup ring to upper cover. Joyce's second book of poetry a slim volume containing 13 poems. Sylvia Beach was an American ex-pat known for her iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company where she published James Joyce's Ulysses 1922 and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book Three Stories and Ten Poems 1923. While autographed copies of her book Shakespeare and Company published in 1960 are often available on the market Joyce titles with Beach's contemporaneous inscriptions from the heyday of the Lost Generation era are extremely uncommon and desirable. A fragile yet very important copy. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1934réf. 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
1936réf. 140945626London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1936. First Edition Thus. Near Fine. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies from a total edition of 1000 copies this copy unnumbered printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum. This copy was reserved for presentation by the author unnumbered at the colophon with the words "Presentation Copy" inscribed in calligraphy below the limitation. The only other copy of this edition of 100 that we could locate that bears the presentation inscription this copy also unnumbered was from Joyce's private library now housed in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. They also hold two other copies of the Bodley Head Ulysses 1/900 that also bear the words "Presentation Copy" on the edition statement: one having been owned by Joyce and the other by Sylvia Beach. Bound in publisher's original full calf vellum with gilt Homeric bows designed by Eric Gill on the upper and lower cover and titles in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's original patterned slipcase which is also correctly sans number matching the presentation copy's blank. Near Fine with light discoloration and light rubbing to the vellum spine slightly darkened and with light mottled foxing foxing to textblock extremities. Slipcase is rubbed and a little worn with several small stains; Foxing to interior of slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in. John Lane the Bodley Head unknown books
1922réf. 140944847London: The Egoist Press 1922. First British edition. First British edition. Published by John Rodker in London October of 1922 following the Paris printing in February the same year. Technically printed in France but for British private distribution. vi 732 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps on handmade paper. Copy #275 in a limitation of 2000. Near Fine with the fragile wraps in truly excellent shape; very rarely found unsophisticated with such little wear especially on the spine which typically has much much more chipping and wear; no restoration done to it. Typical toning to contents bump to bottom right corner with a hint of creasing. A literary milestone in wonderful shape. The Egoist Press unknown books
1928réf. 140944930New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. Signed by Robert Joyce Tasker on the half title upon his release from prison with the inscription "A new 'First Day' -- for those who know my career- a title with double meaning:- signed with sentiments rising but the situation well in hand. Robert Joyce Tasker at San Francisco!! Dec. 10 1929." An earlier handwritten note from Tasker while incarcerated is pasted onto the facing page. On pink paper it reads "You might paste this in your copy of Grimhaven-- Mr Eugene Plunkett -- signed Robert Joyce Tasker April 26th -1929- San Quentin Calif." Four newspaper articles about Tasker are pasted in at front with the former owner's explanations and notes written ink next to them. Second printing of the first edition. iv 241 3 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping. A Good only copy lacking jacket. Spine worn and frayed along ends glued down to spine offsetting from clippings. Former owner's bookplate on paste down San Francisco bookseller's ticket on rear paste down. A rare fan's copy of a popular memoir of life at San Quentin which the author was able to parlay into a successful screenwriting career. After relocating to Mexico City in 1942 he committed suicide by eating sleeping pills. A very unusual copy for being signed once while in prison once out. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1974réf. 140940971London: Audio Arts Eo Epso Ltd. 1974. First Edition. Cassette in case with folded J-card. Vol. 1 No. 3. NM. Contents: A1 -Margaret Henry "A Question Of James Joyce" A2 -James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake "Anna Livia Plurabella" B -Mark Hayman "Recollections Of C.K. Ogden And Others"; interviewer - William Furlong Audio Arts was a very early cassette magazine launched in the UK in 1973 by Barry Barker and sculptor William Furlong to spread the radical ideas of contemporary artists and composers. Issues are rare. Audio Arts (Eo Epso Ltd.) unknown books
1977réf. 140941466New York: Avon 1977. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Joyce Thompson on the title page. viii 246 pp. Publisher's wraps with red stained edges. A Very Good copy with uncreased spine bright wraps hint of sunning along top edge slightly shelf rubbed small ding to front wrap. A forgotten dystopian science fiction novel. Online reviewer Brad Bigelow likens it the work of Ursula K. Le Guin writing that it is "set in a world in which America is run by white people waited on by people of color from the Third World. Medical science has advanced to the point where immortality is possible but to keep its possible complications from spiraling out of control it's also made available only to a selected portion of the population." Rare signed. Avon unknown books
1920réf. 140941506New York: George H. Doran Company 1920. Fine/Very Good. Early printing but not first with "Printed in the United States of America" on copyright page. 75 pp. Publisher's brown cloth ruled in blind with title labels on front and spine. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with some closed tears and creases sunning to spine. The bestselling poetry collection with its famous titular poem which begins "I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree" and a great dust jacket design that can only be described as a proto-psychedelic barber's pole. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1937réf. 140940529London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1937. First British trade edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British trade edition first printing. viii 766 2 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Near Fine with subtle bowing to boards a little offsetting to endpapers and few tiny stains in an unclipped dust jacket very lightly shelfworn else Fine. An attractive copy of the classic novel. John Lane the Bodley Head unknown books
1927réf. 140939462London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original pale green paper-covered boards lettered in dark green. Very Good with rubbing and wear to spine toning and light soiling to covers. A nice copy. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1927réf. 140939125London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First trade edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original pale green paper-covered boards lettered in dark green. Near Fine with toning to covers light wear to spine with minute loss at head and tail. Small previous owner bookplate to front paste down and light toning to pages. A lovely copy in much nicer condition than as normally found in. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1939réf. 140937376New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding lettered in gilt. Fine with fading to topstain near spine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with several tiny edge-tears and very light soiling. A striking copy of a book and jacket typically found in much lesser condition. The Viking Press unknown books
1963réf. 140937449New York: The Vanguard Press 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Near Fine with light shelf wear and toned pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine panel and faint rubbing at the extremities with publisher's price intact. A sharp copy of the author's first book signed. The Vanguard Press unknown books
1939réf. 403164New York: The Business Bourse Publishers 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 324pp. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Frederick at a later date: "To Charles Paoly Sea Isle Hotel Miami Beach with appreciation of the author J. George Frederick President Gourmet Society. New York N.Y. 10/28/83." Frederick's recipes edited by Jean Joyce. A beautiful copy. The Business Bourse, Publishers hardcover books
1929réf. 299582Paris: Black Sun 1929. Limited. paperback. fine/fine. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition. Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon A-36. Black Sun unknown books
2004réf. 1398901New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2004. First Paperback Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 324 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine multitoned blue with white lettering. Minor shelfwear and soiling. Textblock slightly agetoned but clean. Inscribed by Oates on title page. Shelved in under the Front Counter. 1398901. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1974réf. 10904New York: Vanguard 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Bumped and split at tail end of spine else fine in wrappers. Publisher's information slip taped to front free endpaper. Scarce proof of one of the author's less common critical volumes. Vanguard unknown books
1975réf. 1100136NY: Vanguard Press 1975. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Oates on the title page. "For __ with warm regards - Joyce Carol Oates 13 March 1995." Faint beginning foxing on top edge; slight creasing on the dustjacket spine top edge. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates' eighth story collection. Inscribed & Signed By Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vanguard Press 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
