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1979Best.-Nr. 594640Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and paper cover boards. Edges of boards lightly toned else fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued. One of 300 copies Signed by the author. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 318384New York: Dutton 1994. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Thick 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Dutton 1994. First Edition. Fine. Aautographed by Oates on the title page. Dutton unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 170591Franklin Center: Franklin 1980. First. hardcover. fine. Illus. 8vo full leather gilt. Franklin Library 1980. Limited First Edition. Fine. Privately printed exclusively for the members of The First Edition Society. Franklin unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 325972Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1974. First. paperback. near fine. Translated" by Oates. 13 pages. Slim 8vo tan wrappers printed in red & black. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press April 1974. Near fine. Inscribed by Oates - "For. Thank you for your letter and best wishes". Black Sparrow unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 575421Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and paper cover boards. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued. One of 300 copies Signed by the author. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 6433San Francisco: City Lights 1966. Pirated edition. Fine. 18cm; 16 pages. In plain wraps. Facsimile of the 1927 Paris edition published in a run of 13 copies by Shakespeare and Company. Old price label on lower wrap. Reference: Ralph T. Cook "City Lights books" p. 61. [City Lights] paperback books
1910Best.-Nr. 5628Brussels: Ministère des colonies : En vente chez Falk fils 1910. First edition. Boards. Fine. 37 cm; 290 pages and 29 full-page plates including watercolor portraits by Norman H. Hardy fabric patterns and photogravures of ceremonial and other objects. One of two folding maps. LACKS folding map of "Region Bakongo-Bashilele." 403 figures in text. Bound in 1/4 cloth over marbled boards with paper title label on upper board and leather title label on spine. Ministère des colonies : En vente chez Falk fils hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 574007New York: The Ecco Press 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The Ecco Press hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 298937Dublin: Dolmen 1962. First. pamphlet. fine. 15pp. 16mo printed wrappers. Dublin: Dolmen Press/ New York: Gotham Book Mart 1962. First Edition. Fine. A Memorial Address delivered at King's Inns Dublin. Dolmen unknown books
Best.-Nr. 26370CONSERVATION RUSSELL Joyce R. editor. PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS. New York: Special Libraries Associates 1979. 8vo. Wrappers. 96 pages. First edition. Proceedings of a seminar sponsored by the Library Binding Institute. Very good. unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 140948664London: Faber and Faber 1939. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition signed limited issue. Number 334 of limited 425 copies signed by James Joyce. 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. In original yellow cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with trivial fading to spine. Foxing and soiling to slipcase light edge wear. A handsome copy of Joyce's final linguistically complex novel that took him seventeen years to complete; scarce. Slocum & Cahoon A49. Faber and Faber unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 140948801New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. #472 of 800 copies signed by James Joyce on the copyright page. A presentation copy with Sylvia Beach's handwritten note "from Mr. James Joyce" on her Shakespeare and Company stationary mounted to front pastedown. xviv 1 61 pp. printed on watermarked wove paper. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind and gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and faint staining around tail of spine. Contents lightly toned with occasional foxing more pronounced on endpapers and evidence of bookseller ticket removal to back pastedown. Slocum & Cahoon 32. The first separate publication of this fragment of Finnegans Wake which was published in installments over seventeen years before being issued as a complete book in 1939. Sylvia Beach the owner of the legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. had published Ulysses in 1922 and continued to foster Joyce's career during the following decade. She wrote in her 1959 memoir that Anna Livia Plurabelle gave her some trouble. She and Joyce tried to get the piece published in various literary periodicals with limited success. The Calendar accepted it only to be thwarted by its own printers who refused to set up a passage they found obscene. The printers at Princeton University Press which printed this luxurious limited edition for the New York bon vivant Crosby Gaige apparently had no such qualms. Crosby Gaige unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 140949010New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's black buckram lettered in gilt blue topstain. Near Fine with very light rubbing to extremities and bookseller stamp to back free endpaper recto. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing soiling and edgewear and contemporary bookseller ticket to rear flap. A beautiful copy of Joyce's linguistically innovative final novel. Slocum 48. The Viking Press unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1917Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1907Best.-Nr. 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
1916Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1934Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 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
1922Best.-Nr. 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
1928Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
