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1939ref. 1401768New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition First Printing Second State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 628 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Housed in publisher's moderately worn green cloth slip case bearing red labels with gilt lettering to spine. Protected within slip case in publisher's green cloth folders with green marbled paper inside. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering price uncut: "$5.00." Sunning to spine. Rubbing and tearing along edges of dust jacket. Largest tear at at tail of spine. Some material loss to dust jacket primarily at head of spine and at top corners. Scuffing to dust jacket. Rubbing along extremities of boards. Mild scuffing to cloth. Textblock slightly sunken. Fading to dye at top edge of textblock. Gutter visible at half title page and at page 628. Age toning throughout textblock. Features a 16 page pamphlet titled "Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake As Prepared by the Author after Publication of the First Edition" protected with plastic sleeve and stored in rear of textblock. Front inner flap reads "Regular Edition $5.00" making this a second state dust jacket. CM Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. 1401768. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover
2011ref. 176971Arnhem: Terra 2011. Photography by Richard Powers. Pp. 248 illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white pictorial endpapers; large square 4to; textured pictorial papered boards; small name stamp at head of title page; Terra Arnhem 2011. First edition. Terra unknown
ref. ria9781951538750_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Burial material from excavations at Cerro Azul in Peru’s Cañete Valley a pre-Inca fishing community. paperback
ref. ria9798887308654_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement: Turning Around High Needs Schools is an essential guide for enhancing improving and turning around schools. This is a must-have book for campus leaders and district administrators as well as paperback
ref. ria9798887308661_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement: Turning Around High Needs Schools is an essential guide for enhancing improving and turning around schools. This is a must-have book for campus leaders and district administrators as well as hardcover
1975ref. 373115New York and Philadelphia: Octagon Books in association with The Rosenbach Foundation 1975. 3 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth. Fine in near fine slipcase. 3 vols. 4to. Octagon Books in association with The Rosenbach Foundation unknown
1932ref. 69434New York: Berenice Abbott 1932. JOYCE James; ABBOTT Berenice. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Bernice Abbott 1932. Full Description: JOYCE James. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Berenice Abbott n.d. taken 1928. Original gelatin silver print portrait of Joyce taken by Abbott. Signed by the photographer in pencil in the lower right hand corner of the photograph. Mounted on stiff board. Abbott's stamp with her "50 Commerce Street NY" address on the verso of the mount. Image size: 13 x 10 1/8 inches; 330 x 260 mm. Some minor sunning around the perimeter of the photo. A tiny bit of scuffing to top and bottom edges. Otherwise about fine. This is the largest photo we can find of Joyce for the Commerce St. address. Swann Galleries who has had this photo before states "Circa 1932." This is a lovely and well-know portrait of author James Joyce. He is seated in Abbott's studio with a cane wearing a hat and his signature round-framed glasses. "Abbott photographed Joyce on two occasions the first in 1926 at his home in Paris and the second two years later in her studio. At the time of the sitting Joyce was struggling with teeth and eye problems and was struggling through completion of one of his best-known works Finnegan's Wake." "Berenice Alice Abbott July 17 1898 - December 9 1991 was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s." Wikipedia Abbott lived at 50 Commerce St. in NYC with her partner the influential art critic Elizabeth McCausland from 1935 to 1965. HBS 69434. $6000. Berenice Abbott unknown
1979ref. 010598Franklin Library 1979. Leather Bound. Very Good. KENNETH FRANCIS DEWEY . This Cover is Different From Other Franklin Editions! Full brown leather with gilt on outside page edges covers and spine marbled end pages silk ribbon. NO marks or writings pages bright and clean binding tight and sound. Has light wear to outside page edges. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. YY 750 pp Franklin Library hardcover
ref. 1577363728-11-1Providence House Publishers. 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. Providence House Publishers unknown
1928ref. 149110Paris: Transition 1928. The summer 1928 issue of Transition number 13 containing James Joyce's ongoing piece “Continuation of a Work in Progress." Octavo original pictorial wrappers with the cover portrait by Picasso illustrated with black and white photographs throughout including Berenice Abbott's famed portrait of James Joyce. “Continuation of a Work in Progress" is an excerpt of Joyce's experimental novel that would later be published as 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. In very good condition with loss to the spine. Cover by Pablo Picasso. Transition was a Paris-based modernist literary journal founded in 1927 by Eugene Jolas that became one of the most influential platforms for experimental writing in the interwar period. Dedicated to challenging traditional literary forms the magazine published work by leading figures such as James Joyce Gertrude Stein Samuel Beckett and Hart Crane often showcasing texts that pushed the boundaries of language and narrative. Its pages were especially important for serializing excerpts of Joyce’s Work in Progress later Finnegans Wake thereby introducing avant-garde readers to his evolving style. Transition unknown
ref. ria9781905739820_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. The system of dating these monuments presented here builds on the work of previous scho paperback
ref. ria9789887756088_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In Hong Kong in 100 Photos professional photographer Joyce Yung tells the story of her beloved city using the medium she knows best. Each chosen photo represents an endearing slice of Hong Kong captured by a veteran who has been to al hardcover
1928ref. 817011928. Tasker Robert Joyce 1903-1944. Grimhaven. New York: A.A. Knopf 1928. 3 241 pp. Original cloth in worn dust jacket in a mylar covering. A large piece of front dust jacket missing and bound with tape. Author's presentation inscription "Love/ Len D. Owens Sr./ with sincere best wishes/ Robert Joyce Tasker/ Culver City- Feb. 17th 1930" to front free endpaper. Internally clean. $450. Robert Joyce Tasker was an American writer and screenwriter. While serving a five-year sentence for robbery in San Quentin Prison Tasker wrote this autobiographical account about his prison life Grimhaven. After his release the success of his book permitted Tasker to become a Hollywood screenwriter. In 1942 he relocated to Mexico City to work for various film producers. Len D. Owens was an advertising and billboard executive and the father of Academy award winning screenwriter Frances Marion. unknown
2020ref. 9781598536713Library of America 2020 Book. New. Boxed Set. Library of America paperback
1980ref. 207408Clarendon Press 1980-10-09. hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8x1x5. A run of the first eight volumes of a twelve volume set. All volumes in matching dark blue hardback bindings with gilt lettered spines: firm and square strong joints sharp corners. Contents crisp tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. A better than very good near complete set of books. Clarendon Press hardcover
2003ref. 200-00854LEXIS NEXIS 2003-01-01. hardcover. Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title! LEXIS NEXIS hardcover
1916ref. 410927New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Corners rubbed minor edgewear head and foot of spine pushed and worn somewhat rubbed minor soiling. Cream endpapers; pencil notations some effaced to the front endpapers. Internally generally clean and tight; minor scattered thumbsoiling text block edges toned with minor soiling and wear. 8vo. iv 299 1 pages. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in blind to the upper board spine stamped in gilt; lacking dust jacket. A landmark Modernist novel and the author's first. First serialized in The Egoist in 1914 it was first published in book form in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January with the American sheets and a cancel title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11. B. W. Huebsch unknown
1956ref. 372182Buffalo: Lockwood Memorial Library 1956. #82 of 550 copies. xvi 32 2pp. 12mo. Quarter cloth and pastepaper boards. Fine. #82 of 550 copies. xvi 32 2pp. 12mo. Lockwood Memorial Library unknown
ref. 116219New York Dutton 1993. . First trade edition signed by the author; 8vo; original quarter black cloth grey paper covered boards spine lettered in red dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine copy. New York, Dutton, 1993. hardcover
ref. 116206New York Vanguard Press 1973. . First edition review copy; 8vo; original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket price clipped. Review copy with promotional material slipped in from the publisher including a photograph of Oates. A very good copy a little sunning to the spine with some wear and tear to the jacket extremities. New York, Vanguard Press, 1973. hardcover
ref. 116210New York E. P. Dutton 1984. . First trade edition signed by the author; 8vo; original quarter blue cloth blue paper covered boards spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A near fine copy a little wear to the extremities of the jacket. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1984. hardcover
ref. 116211New York E. P. Dutton 1985. . First edition inscribed by the author; 8vo; original cream cloth spine lettered in gilt orange paper covered boards dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: 'For Don - with warm regards Joyce Carol Oates 4/21/86'. A fine copy. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1985. hardcover
ref. 116205New York Vanguard Press 1971. . First edition; 8vo; original brown and yellow cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. The fourth novel in her 'Wonderland Quartet'. A near fine copy light sunning to the jacket spine and small chip at the head. New York, Vanguard Press, 1971. hardcover
ref. 116224New York Dutton 1998. . First edition; 8vo; original black cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. A fine copy. New York, Dutton, 1998. hardcover
ref. 116212New York Dolphin Doubleday 1987. . First edition signed by the author; 8vo; original brown cloth lettered in gilt dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine copy. New York, Dolphin, Doubleday, 1987. hardcover