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1995Best.-Nr. 62303Iowa City Iowa: University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop 1995. 4to pp. 24 self-wrappers; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. "Special giant sized 1995 issue spectacular!" "Produced by Jim Snitzer and Janice Frey at the offset workshop under the auspices of the University of Iowa Center for the Book." OCLC notes that the edition size was 1250 copies 250 of which were signed by the artist. This is unsigned. University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop] unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 404447Northridge California: Lord John Press 1978. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Fine. Copy number 1 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1850Best.-Nr. 74701Trieste: Favarger 1850. Hardcover. Good. viii 241p. Contemporary boards. 16cm. Backstrip chipped at ends and heavily rubbed as are cover extremities. Former owner's name. Relatively light stain in upper right corner throughout along with some foxing. Page 178 refers to an illustration which according to the Introduction had to be omitted. Favarger hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 76219London: Michael Joseph 1947. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 63p. Original cloth. dj price-clipped. 20cm. Jacket has some soiling and edge-wear Small dent at top and bottom of front cover. Former owner's name. Poetry. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1912Best.-Nr. 39660London: Macmillan and Philip Lee Warner 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. color frontis illustrations & photos folding map index xv 292p. Navy blue cloth. 22 cm. Some scuffing and minor foxing. Name and small sticker on endpaper. No Jacket. Macmillan and Philip Lee Warner hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 15491New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition 8vo pp. xxii 266; 2 portraits on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine copy in the jacket. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings preserved by Stanislaus" jacket blurb. Viking Press unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 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
1981Best.-Nr. 89690Concord NH: William B. Ewert Publisher 1981. First Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.82. Slim octavo 23.5cm; letterpress printed sheets string-tied into publisher's original unprinted white card wrappers; grey laid paper dustjacket with titles printed in black on front cover; ii67-206pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. 89690. William B. Ewert, Publisher unknown books
Best.-Nr. 20110909San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1994. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 75 copies unnumbered elephant folio size 156 pp. with numerous specimens in a custom box with prospectus and "El Paso keepsake" signed by James Linden. A tour de force of the ephemeral printing of the inimitable Adrian Wilson who with his wife Joyce Lancaster Wilson produced some of the finest and interesting private press work in San Francisco during the second half of the 20th century. The Press in Tuscany Alley was one of San Francisco's small private press jewels. Adrian Wilson 1924-1988 was both a book designer and a scholar authoring "The Design of Books" which is regarded as a classic text on book design. As the New York Times stated in his obituary: "Mr. Wilson designed and printed scores of books and became a mentor to younger men and women eager to learn the printer's craft. His many volumes while little-known to the general public are famous among print connoisseurs and many are collector's items." This spectacular work pays homage to the ephemeral work of Adrian Wilson in which both his perfection of technique and whimsicality shine through. Housed in a custom slipcase are first a volume which contains the bibliographical information on Wilson's ephemera; not only does it present tipped-in specimens but almost every page has either a printed and coloured cut or an illustration which has been hand-coloured. Second is a folding box which is stuffed with samples of the ephemera over forty pieces by our count. For any aficionado of private press printing this work is a bounty of both information and visual delight. ___DESCRIPTION: The volume is bound in natural linen boards Adrian Wilson's signature debossed in blind on the front board paper label on the spine fore-edge uncut bottom edge rough-cut a single piece of ephemera loosely laid in at the front half-title in red with a green cut frontis a black-and-white photograph of Wilson examining a sheet in his printing studio title page in red and black sectional headings and page numbers in red throughout a mulitiplicity of specimens and illustrations throughout signed and dated in pencil by James Linden at the colophon; designed and hand-coloured by James Linden text in Janson on Rives Heavyweight with end-papers of a special J. Barcham Green Handmade Tovil with Adrian Wilson's type-juggler logo as the watermark elephant folio size 15 3/4" by 10 1/2" 156 pp.; this copy one of 75 standard copies there were also ten special deluxe copies. The folding box entirely covered and lined with natural linen with Adrian Wilson's signature debossed in blind on the front paper spine label containing approximately 40 pieces of ephemera. Both items contained within a custom slipcase also covered with the natural linen with a paper spine label measuring 16 1/8" high by 10 3/4" wide by 3" deep. ___CONDITION: The entire work is fine and as new; we acquired this directly from the printer; clean and crisp throughout with absolutely no wear or markings. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy work and therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details; International customers please also note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Press in Tuscany Alley hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 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
1922Best.-Nr. 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
1918Best.-Nr. 7836New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Published simultaneously with the English edition on May 25 1918 see Slocum & Cahoon 14 and 15. A Fine copy of the book in Near Fine dust jacket. vi 154 pp. Publisher's green cloth over tan blindstamped boards. A touch of foxing to edges and top edge dusty otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket rubbed and a bit foxed with just a few short tears to the rear panel. Overall a very appealing copy of Joyce's only play. Exiles captures the romantic dramas of Richard and Bertha a common-law couple recently returned to their home country of Ireland and the complex dynamics that play out between them Richard's cousin Robert and Robert's wife Beatrice. "The play was not especially popular at the time and is commonly regarded as one of Joyce's weaker works. However much of the initial criticism may have had to do with the play's provocative themes: unconventional relationships jealousy weakened national ties to Ireland and exile. All of these topics resonate with Joyce's personal life making Exiles a partly autobiographical work" James Joyce Foundation. After W.B. Yeats refused to stage the play Joyce unsuccessfully attempted to interest theatrical companies throughout England Ireland and the United States. Exiles eventually debuted in German translation in Munich in 1919. Of the premiere Joyce wrote: "Complete fiasco. Row in theatre. Play withdrawn. Author invited but not present.Thank God" Morgan Library. The play was not performed in English until a staging at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in 1925. Slocum & Cahoon 15. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. B.W. Huebsch unknown books
2014Best.-Nr. 9032668London: Folio Society 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. First Folio Society edition. Edited by Rose and O'Hanlon prefaces by Rose O'Hanlon and Deane introduction by Greetham illustrated by Lord with an introduction. Bound in publisher's original blue black and silver illustrated cloth with blue and silver leather spine label. Top edge silver. Comes with black paper-covered board slipcase stamped in illustrated silver. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout by Lord. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. 492 pages plus introductions and plates. Folio Society hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 49611Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1982. First edition. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth boards w/ brown leather spine. In d/j. Very good condition. Personal library bl . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1982. First edition. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth boards w/ brown leather spine. In d/j. Very good condition. Personal library blind stamp and gold blind stamped sticker on title page. Oversized book postage at cost. Many illustrations in b/w and some in color and maps. 28 cm. xxi 527 pp. b/w frontispiece. b/w and C. photographs and maps . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 49702New York: New Directions 1944. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition. . New York: New Directions 1944. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition. "A part of the first draft of 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce". 21.75 cm. 234 pp. b/w frontispiece . New Directions hardcover books
2018Best.-Nr. 9032706New York: ecco/HarperCollins 2018. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. 326 pages. ecco/HarperCollins paperback books
1944Best.-Nr. 48589New York: New Directions 1944. First draft of 'Portrait of the Artist . New York: New Directions 1944. First draft of 'Portrait of the Artist". V G in dj .d j all present but separated. 23.5 cm. 234 pp. b/w plates and frontispiece. . New Directions unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 1263501922. Paris: John Rodker for the Egoist Press 1922. 4to 15 732 1pp. Later half black morocco gilt top backstrip richly gilt original Aegean blue printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy tastefully bound and preserving the iconic wrappers. § First UK edition number 715 of 2000 copies printed 500 were seized and burned by the U.S. customs upon arrival; with half-title and 7 pages of errata at the front. Long bookseller's note in pencil at back by John Howell-Books priced $75. Joyce's ground-breaking modernist novel was first serialized in the American journal The Little Review and was the target of the first of many censorship attempts soon after the publication of the Nausicaa episode. Despite being banned in the UK and suppressed in the US well into the 1930s the novel was recognized as a landmark in literature from its earliest reviews. "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." - T.S. Eliot. Slocum & Cahoon A18. unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 49083London: Rivingtons 1855. 'A constitutional history of the convocations of the clergy from the earliest records. including a list of all councils ecc . London: Rivingtons 1855. 'A constitutional history of the convocations of the clergy from the earliest records. including a list of all councils ecclesiastical as well as civil held in England in which the clergy have been concerned'. V G in embossed gilt lettered boards. Sunning of spine. . 22 cm. 751 pp. . Rivingtons hardcover books
1912Best.-Nr. 9032284London: Macmilla 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece illustration in color. Other ilustrations in black and white. Includes maps. Macmilla hardcover books
2004Best.-Nr. 90316332004: ecco/HarperCollins 2004. 1st. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Bound in publisher's original white paper wrappers. 6 1/8 x 9 inches. 291 pages. ecco/HarperCollins paperback books
1950Best.-Nr. 81802London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1950. First Edition. First impression. Inscribed in ink on front endpaper: "For Louise Thomas with affectionate regards from the Author" dated May 1950. 12mo; red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 159pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled else a clean tight copy Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced 8/6 net at base of front flap toned with a small loss at crown of spine panel just into titling; Very Good. A novel of village life in contemporary West Africa written by a white author well-meaning but nonetheless embarrassingly paternalistic in a way that is neatly embodied in Joyce Cary's introduction: "I wish Africans who read it may be inspired to explore and record the religious life of old Africa before it is utterly lost and forgotten." "Denys Craig" was the pseudonym apparently used for this book only of British novelist and composer Dennis Gray Stoll 1912-1987. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 47062New York: George H. Doran Company 1914. A copy inscribed by Joyce Kilmer to publisher William Stanley Braithwaite defaced on the front pastedown by a previous owner. L . New York: George H. Doran Company 1914. A copy inscribed by Joyce Kilmer to publisher William Stanley Braithwaite defaced on the front pastedown by a previous owner. Lightly chipped spine but otherwise VG. . 20 x 14 cm. 75 pp. . George H. Doran Company unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. 569082New York: Dutton 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth printing. Very good in rubbed very good dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 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
