McCarthy, Cormac (novel); Oates, Joyce Carol (introduction); Pancoast, Ryan (illustrations)Biblio.com
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réf. 9014Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2019. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Oates the illustrator Ryan Pancoast and the engraver Richard Wagener this being copy no.212. Octavo 23.75cm; beige linen boards and dark brown leather backstrip with titles stamped in copper on spine and engraved frontispiece duplicated and inset on front cover; rustic black handmade endpapers; publisher's matching slipcase; ii67-2417pp with an engraved frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Handsome limited edition of McCarthy's tenth novel charting the harrowing journey of a father and his young son navigating the postapocalyptic landscape of the southern United States. The Suntup edition features a moving 10-page introduction by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates who calls it "austere incantory suffused with an equal measure of terror and beauty.". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 and basis for the 2009 John Hillcoat film starring Viggo Mortenson. 9014. Suntup Editions unknown
2008réf. 337618Great Britian: Oxford University Press 2008. 1st Oxford World's Classics Edition; Sixth Printing. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps.; Oxford World's Classics; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 980 pages. Oxford University Press unknown
1934réf. 340054New York: Random House 1934. unbound. One folio sheet folded to 8vo. Publisher's advertisement for "Ulysses" that appeared in the 10 February Saturday Review of Literature 1934. Includes overview character list chapter synopses & a map of Dublin. First collected or selected Millay and issued only in England. Autographed by Millay on the flyleaf. Random House unknown
1939réf. 21266911939. London: Faber & Faber Limited. 1939. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt top-edge gilt the others uncut partly unopened; pp. 6 628; lacking publisher's yellow slipcase spine and head of upper board slightly sunned; toning to fore-edge light pencil mark to foot of p. 628 old label of Des Forges Books De Luxe Milwaukee to rear pastedown; very good.First limited edition no. 300 of 425 copies signed by James Joyce.The gestation of Finnegans Wake was long and arduous. Starting in 1922 after a period of exhaustion following the completion of Ulysses Joyce wrote short sketches and notes that would become incorporated into the final work. They were published in journals most notably the Paris-based Transatlantic Review and Transition under the title Work In Progress. The sketches often produced a baffled reaction partly because their place in the whole work was not clear and partly because his new writing was in an invented polyglot argot drawing on around seventy languages comprising puns portmanteau words and multiple meanings.So demoralised was Joyce by the negative reaction that in 1929 he considered giving it to the poet James Stephens to complete. In the same year Harry Crosby's Black Sun Press published three sections as Tales Told of Shem and Shaun for which Joyce was paid $2000 and he was emboldened to carry on with the work himself. However he was further hampered by family crises and failing eyesight. After seventeen years the book was finally published on 4 May 1939 with this limited edition being issued alongside a trade edition.The finished work is impossible to summarise although there is a discernible narrative concerning the main character Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker an effort to discredit him a letter in his defence from his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle and his troublesome children. The narrative is cyclical divided into seventeen digressive chapters and most of the main events are alluded to rather than described so that it is hard for any two readers to agree on precise details of character or action. That is precisely Joyce's intention. As he wrote in a letter to his editor Harriet Shaw Weaver on 24 November 1926: 'One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language cutanddry grammar and goahead plot' see Ellmann below. Both life and language are dreamlike.Finnegans Wake has since become an icon of modernism one of the least accessible but most artistically important products of twentieth century literature. Joyce regarded its complexity as essential and recommended that the reader devoted a lifetime to its contemplation 'like the Koran' as Cyril Connolly put it in The Modern Movement. Edmund Wilson gave the best advice: 'The conditions for reading this book are different as far as I know from those for reading any other book ever written. You have to take it rather slowly a section at a time and you have to keep on rereading it. Joyce worked on it through seventeen years and it is equivalent to about seventeen books by the ordinary gifted writer.' The New Yorker 5 August 1944.Slocum & Cahoon A49. See Ellmann Richard. Letters of James Joyce III 146; Connolly The Modern Movement p.81. hardcover
2022réf. G1700318936Elsevier 2022-03-16. hardcover. Good. 8x1x11. Elsevier hardcover
1996réf. 133392A William Abrahams Book / Dutton 1996. Book. Fine. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Signed by Authors. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : fine / like new. Book: slight wear to spine tips and lower edge of binding; two very tiny spots on binding; otherwise like new Jacket in new mylar protector. Oates' signature only on title page. Full number line and original publisher's price $24.95 on jacket flap. A William Abrahams Book / Dutton Hardcover
1998réf. mon0004286161Easton Press 1998-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. . Signed and numbered first edition. This volume has the original loose bookplate and certificate of signature authenticity. This copy is serialized as copy 115 from a limited run of 1100 as stated on the limitation page. In great condition with minimal external wear crisp & clean interiors showing unmarked text & pictures and firm binding! A great collecting copy! Easton Press hardcover
1978réf. SBBI-SBL-029008Oliver & Boyd 1978. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Oliver & Boyd unknown
1978réf. SBBI-SBL-029007Oliver & Boyd 1978. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Oliver & Boyd unknown
2017réf. G1641131195I2N00Information Age Publishing 2017. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Information Age Publishing paperback
réf. F18A-03705Joyce Meyer Ministries. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Joyce Meyer Ministries unknown
1988réf. 221526New York: Harmony Books 1988. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Harmony Books hardcover
2025réf. SKU1734543Hogarth 2025-06-17. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Hogarth hardcover
2007réf. 1-047008037XFor Dummies 2007. Paperback. New. 5th edition. 355 pages. 9.25x7.50x1.00 inches. For Dummies paperback
2013réf. 1-0544106164Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013. Hardcover. New. 65 pages. 9.25x5.50x0.25 inches. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover
2024réf. SKU1742644O'Reilly Media 2024-09-17. paperback. New. 6x1x9. New Book Ships with Tracking O'Reilly Media paperback
2024réf. SKU1743168Routledge 2024-08-02. paperback. New. 7x1x9. New Book Ships with Tracking Routledge paperback
1949réf. 191673Paris: 1949. These be my genteelican arms." Finnegans Wake Joyce's posthumous bookplate engraved with the same arms the author used during his lifetime. His father John Joyce based the family arms on those of the Joyces of Galway as described in the 1884 edition of Burke's General Armory. However Burke described them inaccurately leading the writer to inherit armorial deviations such as the eagle not being twin headed. In James Joyce and Heraldry 1986 Michael J. O'Shea argues for the significance of heraldry throughout Joyce's works. "The Joyces had no official grant of arms; moreover no genealogical link has been demonstrated between the armigerous Galway Joyces and the author's Cork ancestors. Nevertheless John Joyce apparently treated his heraldic legacy with care and his son James was known to have a version of the arms hanging on the wall of his various residences in Paris" O'Shea p. 49. It was commissioned from the artist Johnny Friedlaender by La Hune bookshop Paris following their sale of the author's library in 1949. Bookplate engraved with the Joyce coat of arms an eagle gules displayed and charged on the breast with a bar gemel ermine; crest: a demi wolf rampant ducally gorged proper; motto: "Mors aut honorabilis vita". Sheet size: 199 x 150 mm. Couple of spots and creases else fine. unknown
2014réf. x-1446298612Learning Matters 2014. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 178 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.50 inches. Learning Matters paperback
1986réf. x-0803980078Sage Pubns 1986. Paperback. New. 186 pages. 8.35x5.28x0.55 inches. Sage Pubns paperback
réf. 50533411like new. unknown
2007réf. G0849378885I2N00CRC Press 2007. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. CRC Press hardcover
2024réf. x-1529601983Sage Pubns Ltd 2024. Hardcover. New. 293 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. Sage Pubns Ltd hardcover
2024réf. x-1529601975Sage Pubns Ltd 2024. Paperback. New. 293 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. Sage Pubns Ltd paperback
2020réf. x-1526441322Sage Pubns Ltd 2020. Hardcover. New. 592 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.25 inches. Sage Pubns Ltd hardcover
