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1939Best.-Nr. 139672New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and ruling to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels gilt signature to the front panel inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Viking Press hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 338631Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. 24 pp. Errata slip present at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed boards. Spine toned with small losses. Very good. First edition. 24 pp. Errata slip present at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive copy of this pocket volume of Joyce's poems. Slocum A24 Shakespeare and Company unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 139635Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1924. Fourth printing of Joyce's masterpiece signed by him. Quarto original wrappers. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper "James Joyce Paris 7 January 1924." In very good condition the joints lightly repaired. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed. 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
1916Best.-Nr. 345922New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover. Some rubbing spine ends and slightly on corners one scratch to front cover near spine not affecting blind stamp; very clean internally. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards publisher of Dubliners Secker and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on the book if Harriet Weaver who had serialized the novel in The Egoist in 1914 would arrange for 750 copies to be published in London. It was published first in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January with the American sheets and a cancel Egoist title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11 B.W. Huebsch unknown
Best.-Nr. 1440857806.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 0323761836-8-1Elsevier. 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. Elsevier unknown
Best.-Nr. 0323761836-8-1-14Elsevier. 10. Very Good. Contains NEW UNOPENED access code. 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. Elsevier unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 131904Paris: Privately Printed 1925. James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly compiled by her husband Horace Finaly in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo bound in full crushed morocco by G. Cretté with gilt titles to the spine silk-watered doublures and endleaves tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head of La Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas from 1919 to 1937 and enabled several major French-American industrial collaborations. He is referred to in Finnegans Wake which Joyce was writing at the time of his inscription: "Play actors by us ever have crash to their gate. Mr.Messop and Mr Borry will produce of themselves as they're twof genitalmen of Veruno Sernior Nowno and Senior Brolano finaly! finaly! all for love of a fair penitent that a she be broughton rhoda's a rosy she. Their two big skins! How they strave to gat her! Such a boyplay!" In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare and desirable from Joyce's personal collection. One of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century Irish novelist James Joyce is best known for his masterworks Ulysses 1922 Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man 1916 and Finnegans Wake 1939. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Privately Printed unknown
1916Best.-Nr. 5554New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First Edition. Joyce's autobiographical first novel first serialized in 25 installments in The Egoist between February 2 1914 and September 1 1915 by his great patron Harriet Shaw Weaver. As for the book publication she was unsuccessful at finding an English printer willing to assume the responsibility of setting the text - seven of them refused to do it all on moral grounds. "Under English law unlike American the printing of immoral writings is as actionable as their publication" Slocum & Cahoon p.20. Weaver sent a copy of her Egoist serialization to New York bookseller Edmond Byrne Hackett who in turn contacted B.W. Huebsch who undertook the publication of Portrait just as he had for Dubliners several weeks earlier. ".on 16 June an emblematic date for Joyce Benjamin Huebsch wrote to Miss Weaver with his proposal: publication of the complete novel with sheets printed in the US going to the English publisher under joint imprints the costs being shared.He was anxious he said to see Joyce properly launched in America and Pound recommended that Huebsch's offer be accepted" Bowker Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography p.226. Through his alter ego Stephen Dedalus Joyce "describes his spiritual journey through his Jesuit education and petty bourgeois Dublin to forge through 'silence exile and cunning' the 'uncreated conscience of his race'.A landmark in sensibility the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end" Connolly 26. The number of copies of the first printing is unknown but a second was published in April 1917 followed by three additional printings 1918-1922 before Huebsch merged his publishing house with the Viking Press. We know of no documented presentation copies of the American edition of Portrait; the present copy likely one of a very few copies with distinguished provenance not already in institutional hands was one of Benjamin Huebsch's own retained copies left to his son Ian Oscar Huebsch then passed by inheritance to a family friend. Slocum & Cahoon 11. First Printing preceding the British edition by roughly two months. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; iv2991pp. Spine ends gently nudged hint of sunning to spine rear hinge starting but sound with some faint shallow staining to upper board edges; text is fresh with the gilt titling bright and unrubbed; Very Good. In the original dustjacket priced $1.50 net at mid-spine with a brief holograph note in blue grease pencil at lower front panel either in Huebsch's hand or someone at his office: "1st Ed - addtl. copy." Sunning to spine and panels old dampstain affecting spine and upper edge of front panel with shallow losses along the edges - the deepest of these affecting the "SCH" in the publisher's name at base of spine; several splits tears and attendant creases a dozen of them skillfully and nearly invisibly mended on verso; Good to Very Good. B.W. Huebsch unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 5491New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition. A typically exquisite production by The Black Sun Press printing Joyce's Chamber Music Pomes Penyeach and Ecce Puer - the latter never before included in any edition. Slocum & Cahoon A44; Minkoff A-45. Trade Issue one of 750 numbered copies this being copy no.626. Octavo 17cm; cream paper-covered boards with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay; ii651pp with frontispiece portrait of the author by Augustus John. Hint of sunning to crown else a fresh Fine copy. Glassine shows light wear to extremities shallow losses to spine ends and lower corners and a small triangular chip to lower rear panel; Very Good. The Black Sun Press unknown
1989Best.-Nr. G0872271358I3N00Regular Baptist Pr 1989. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Regular Baptist Pr paperback
1985Best.-Nr. 222869Lanham: University Press of America. 1985. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. As new. . Octavo. . Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. University Press of America. hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 891931961. The Stellar Press. 1961. LIMITED EDITION of 165 copies this being No. 105. Slim paperback with wrapps sewn binding. Covers very slightly sunned o/w a lovely clean copy. paperback
2022Best.-Nr. x-0520318501Univ of California Pr 2022. Paperback. New. 224 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.52 inches. Univ of California Pr paperback
1975Best.-Nr. G0810807750I3N11Scarecrow Press Incorporated 1975. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Scarecrow Press, Incorporated hardcover
Best.-Nr. 61834London: Fourth Estate 2007. American Literature INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 16cm pp.8 582 2. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'to Myra and Murray Joyce Carol Oates.' Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A fine as-new copy. London: Fourth Estate, 2007 unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 47048Franklin Tn: Providence House Publihers 1996. Silver Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto illustrated. 4 volumes all fine in glazed printed boards and all signed by Blackburn on the title page and The Invisible Peacock additionally warmly inscribed 4 lines to. Providence House Publihers hardcover
Best.-Nr. 106163London and The Hague The Servire Press for Faber and Faber 1934. . First edition first printing regular issue limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper there were also 29 casebound copies each signed by the author; large 8vo; initial letter tail-piece and cover designed by the author's daughter Lucia; publisher's cream wrappers titles to spine in blue decoration and titles to front wrapper in blue black and silver with the original silvered card slipcase titles in silver on a pink ground. Spine a little faded but a lovely copy in the slightly defective slipcase. A beautiful piece of Dutch book production with Lucia's characteristic illustrations. Prints a famous section of Finnegans Wake the known as Work In Progress. There a number of issues of this publication the present example being from the preferred Faber batch thus representing the true UK first edition. Slocum and Cahoon A43. London and The Hague, The Servire Press for Faber and Faber, 1934. unknown
Best.-Nr. OTF-S-9781635420265Other Press. New. BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER! Other Press unknown
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2011Best.-Nr. SKU0475178Oxford University Press 2011-10-27. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking Oxford University Press paperback
2004Best.-Nr. SKU0471337ABC-CLIO 2004-01-01. Library Binding. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking ABC-CLIO unknown
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Best.-Nr. SKU0476697Pearson Canada 2018-01-12. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking Pearson Canada paperback
