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1928Best.-Nr. 169217New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Anna was Livia is Plurabelle's to be First edition signed limited issue number 134 of 800 copies signed by the author preceding the British edition by two years. Anna Livia Plurabelle is an early published chapter from Joyce's famous "work in progress" that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt spine and front cover decorated in gilt borders to covers in blind top edge gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Bookplate and ink ownership signature of one Dennis Hartman to front pastedown corresponding offsetting to front free endpaper. Spine ends lightly bumped a few tiny marks to cloth slight crease to preliminary blank. A near-fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon A32. hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. 144094New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition of the author's only play published simultaneously with the British edition. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "James Joyce 2 June 1923 Paris." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed. Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead" the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W.B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970 when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 50902New York: Laura Geringer / HarperCollins 1993. Fine. Signed limited first edition of this fantastic North Pole adventure specially bound and with original slipcase - with additional Santa sketch and signature by Joyce to front fly leaf. In this beautiful picture book three children from Texas are summoned to the North Pole by SANTA himself for a magical romp. This is a scarce signed special edition of the fanciful story bound in festive red cloth. 11'' x 10.75''. Original red cloth boards with large color pictorial paste-on and gilt lettering to spine. Teal green endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout with two liftable flap letter facsimiles to rear. Typography by Christine Kettner. 21 leaves. Signed by Joyce with Santa sketch dated 94 to front fly leaf. Signed by Joyce to limitation page numbered 188 of 250. In original red cloth slipcase with gilt lettering and color pictorial paste-on. A touch of edgewear. Laura Geringer / HarperCollins unknown
1990Best.-Nr. ZB1289363F A Davis Co 1990. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov 2 SALE item 342 pp. Hardcover very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. F A Davis Co hardcover
1917Best.-Nr. 144189London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel one of about 1000 copies. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Egoist Ltd hardcover
2012Best.-Nr. 1-1593639546Prufrock Pr 2012. Paperback. New. 121 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.25 inches. Prufrock Pr paperback
1922Best.-Nr. 142260Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition of Joyce's masterpiece one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies this is number number 817. Thick quarto original blue and white wrappers. In very good condition with some expert restoration to the spine and a crease to the front wrapper which has been coloured. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company 1922. It was a struggle for the author to find a publisher a comic irony considering that Ulysses is "universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" Grolier Joyce 69. Ulysses was an immediate success. The first printing sold out and "within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922" de Grazia 27. Even so the book faced difficulties in global reception. It was banned in the U.K. and was prosecuted for the obscenity in the Nausicaa episode Ellmann 1982. Joyce's inspiration for the novel began as a young boy reading Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses and writing an essay entitled "My Favorite Hero" after being impressed by the wholeness of the character Goreman 1939. The idea for the novel grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906 which Joyce expanded into a short book in 1907 before reconceptualizing it as the heady novel in 1914 Ellmann 1982. The book can initially seem unstructured and chaotic and Joyce admitted that he "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" The Observer 2000. The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode Gilbert explained is connected to the Odyssey by theme technique and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness a technique employing carefully structured prose both humorous and charactering and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe William Faulkner and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue rather than stream of consciousness is the appropriate term for the style in which subjective experience is recorded both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" Stevenson 1992. Shakespeare and Company unknown
2013Best.-Nr. 1-0062257390William Morrow & Co 2013. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.97 inches. William Morrow & Co hardcover
2024Best.-Nr. x-019888186XOxford Univ Pr 2024. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.83 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9781783276721_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Gildas is an essential witness to the Christian culture of the British Isles in the opaque period after the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. His criticisms in De excidio Britanniae of the Britons in the context of spiritual hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9781682536902_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The engaging profiles of English Learners at Home and at School offer access to a deeper and broader understanding of the lived experiences of English learners and their families. Such knowledge is essential for all educators in order t paperback
2019Best.-Nr. 1-1543957323Bookbaby 2019. Paperback. New. 824 pages. 9.00x6.00x2.00 inches. Bookbaby paperback
Best.-Nr. 0357880870-8-1Cengage Learning. 10. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Cengage Learning unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 197351Tucson AZ: Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona 1984. First edition. Softcover. 23 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran September 23 through November 1 1984. Foreword by James Enyeart. Features text by Sarah J. Moore. Includes a 16 color images chronology list of previous exhibitions and checklist. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Signed by both Neimanas and Moore on the title page. Uncommon as such. Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 171352London: Faber & Faber; Viking Press New York 1939. His final and most experimental work First edition signed limited issue number 366 of 425 copies signed by the author printed on handmade paper and specially bound; complete with the publisher's slipcase. The limitation was split between the British and American markets and sold simultaneously with the trade issues on 4 May 1939. "The most conspicuous innovation of Finnegans Wake is its use of 'dream-language'. After Ulysses Joyce believed that he had 'come to the end of English' and his last novel is a pervasive layering of multilingual puns in successive drafts which produces a fabric rich in semantic possibilities" ODNB. Large octavo. Original red buckram spine lettered and ruled in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut leaves unopened. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Later compliments slip from Patricia MacManus 1914-2005 of the Viking Press marking the publication of Steinbeck's East of Eden on 19 September 1952 loosely inserted. Spine very gently sunned and bumped at foot minor rubbing internally clean; lightly soiled slipcase with wear to edges and two short splits: a near-fine copy. Burgess 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 p. 25; Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A49. hardcover
2024Best.-Nr. x-1009400169Cambridge Univ Pr 2024. Paperback. New. 220 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr paperback
1993Best.-Nr. ZB1292841Garland 1993. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov 2 SALE item 265 pp. hardcover fine. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Garland hardcover
1922Best.-Nr. 167273Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. It soared a bird it held its flight. soaring high high resplendent First edition number 418 of 750 copies on handmade paper numbered 251 to 1000. This attractive copy is finely bound retaining the distinctive original blue wrappers at the front and rear. The edition was published on 2 February 1922 in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format which was aimed at both connoisseurs and general readers. It consisted of 100 signed copies on Dutch handmade paper 150 large-paper copies printed on heavier vergé d'Arches and 750 copies on vergé à barbes which formed the trade issue. One of the key texts of 20th-century modernist literature Ulysses also proved 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 p. 1. Its creator is considered one of the great geniuses of modern literature: "Joyce not to mince words is Ireland's Shakespeare its Goethe its Racine its Tolstoy" Sutherland. Small quarto 234 x 184 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in greenish blue morocco spine lettered in gilt quintuple gilt ruled border to spine and covers turn-ins ruled in gilt cream endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed original wrappers bound in. Housed in a matching leather entry slipcase by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy. Horowitz Census p. 121; Slocum & Cahoon A17. Vincent Sherry Joyce: Ulysses 2004; John Sutherland "Ireland's Shakespeare" The Guardian 10 Feb. 2004. hardcover
Best.-Nr. AT 9780714682921USA Edition . New. Brand New! Fast Delivery US Edition and ship within 24-48 hours. Deliver by FedEx and Dhl & Aramex UPS & USPS and we do accept APO and PO BOX Addresses. Order can be delivered worldwide within 6-10 days and we do have flat rate for up to 2LB. Extra shipping charges will be requested if the Book weight is more than 5 LB. This Item May be shipped from India United states & United Kingdom. Depending on your location and availability. unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 172029New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. A choice example of this predecessor to the Wake First edition signed limited issue number 666 of 800 copies signed by the author. Copies are rare in the publisher's glassine and slipcase which are unrecorded by the bibliographers Slocum & Cahoon. This edition which included a further 50 unsigned copies printed on green paper and bound in black cloth precedes the British edition by two years. Anna Livia Plurabelle is an early published chapter from Joyce's famous "Work in Progress" that eventually became Finnegans Wake 1939. T. S. Eliot thought it an excellent chapter to select for early publication writing that "this fantasy of the course of the river Liffey is the best-known part of Finnegans Wake and is the best introduction to it" p. 7. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt blind rules and dog-tooth roll on covers front cover with gilt triangular centrepiece top edge gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. In publisher's glassine and original green card slipcase. Two later postcards with Joyce's portrait one by Man Ray loosely inserted. Spine head knocked bump to upper corners cloth bright and contents clean; glassine with tear to upper spine and fold ends with singular chip: a near-fine copy. Slocum & Cahoon A32. T. S. Eliot Introducing James Joyce: A Selection of Joyce's Prose 1942. hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 198869New York: E.P. Dutton Inc 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 558 pages. Review copy with laid in author publicity sheet and a laid in letter from publisher representative Lois E. Shapiro to legendary literary critic John Leonoard. A thick novel from the author of the National Book Award winning "Them." A fair copy that has been extensively dog eared by Leonard and with some marks by him and in a fair dust jacket that has a good deal of wear. An interesting copy with a great provenance. E.P. Dutton, Inc unknown
Best.-Nr. mon0000039633SAGE Publications Ltd 11/15/2010 12:00:01. hardcover. New. 0.8268 in x 9.7244 in x 6.9291 in. Brand new. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton Oregon library. SAGE Publications Ltd hardcover
Best.-Nr. 145786New York: Walker and Company 1994. First edition of this riveting work on the legendary scientist James D. Watson. Octavo original boards. Boldly signed by James Watson and Francis Crick on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ron Monteleone. Rare and desirable signed by Watson and Crick. In its drama Watson's life has rivaled the discovery of the structure of DNA. So intent on his research was this awkward bumbling scholar that he would climb a drainpipe to sneak into a lab at night. Watson had a knack for selecting problems that would yield important scientific results but did he pilfer Did Rosalind Franklin originate crucial material If so why was she not included in the Nobel Prize Baldwin who had exceptional access to Watson and his family conveys the elegance of science the ``structure of DNA was too pretty not to be true'' describes diverse influences birding Arrowsmith movies and even gives advice go to a college where others are brighter than you to test your mettle. Voluminous detail on what exactly provided a lifetime's worth of inspiration broaden an intriguing picture of this intrepid competitor. Walker and Company hardcover
2015Best.-Nr. 1-0062408674Ecco Pr 2015. Hardcover. New. 353 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. Ecco Pr hardcover
1994Best.-Nr. 1-0195092627Oxford Univ Pr 1994. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 768 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
