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réf. 14364-Bucknell University Press 2001-. First edition. 222 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. This study makes the case that the novel's intricate self-consciousness begins as a very recognizable story: the 'Kunstlerroman.' In such a reading Ulysses emerges as the story of the time-obsessed Stephen Dedalus who desires to compose a masterful chronicle that will one day rival the timeless narratives of Ovid and Homer. McBride's analysis treats at length Stephen's poetic theories and compositions examinig them as clear forerunners to the novel that the reader is reading. The culminating point is the claim that the figures of Leopold and Molly Bloom may be elaborate fictions created by Stephen. Ulysses and the Metamorphosis of Stephen Dedalus. James Joyce 0838754465 -Bucknell University Press, 2001- hardcover
réf. 14363-Bucknell University Press 2001-. First edition. 222 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. This study makes the case that the novel's intricate self-consciousness begins as a very recognizable story: the 'Kunstlerroman.' In such a reading Ulysses emerges as the story of the time-obsessed Stephen Dedalus who desires to compose a masterful chronicle that will one day rival the timeless narratives of Ovid and Homer. McBride's analysis treats at length Stephen's poetic theories and compositions examinig them as clear forerunners to the novel that the reader is reading. The culminating point is the claim that the figures of Leopold and Molly Bloom may be elaborate fictions created by Stephen Ulysses and the Metamorphosis of Stephen Dedalus. James Joyce bxd 0838754465 -Bucknell University Press, 2001- hardcover
1983réf. 125403Houghton Mifflin 1983. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Signed by Author. First edition first printing. Author inscribed to previous owner John Sampas who was Kerouac's brother in law and the literary representative of the Kerouac estate and signed. Tight binding text unmarked price intact jacket shows very light shelf wear. Please email for photos. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1910réf. 012561New York: Moods Publishing 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn some typical edgewear. Front hinge cracked; paper on spine largely lacking; contents Very Good. Full parchment lettered in gilt. Copy #16 of only 50 autographed copies of a total edition of 500. This copy SIGNED by the editor Edwin Markham and 22 contributors including Louis Untermeyer and Joyce Kilmer a very scarce autograph as he was killed in World War I. This anthology predates both Kilmer's and Untermeyer's first books. Moods Publishing hardcover
1978réf. 56589New York: Pach Brothers 1978. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. Mount slightly chipped image fine. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. A fine early portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio the Pach Brothers. Oates won the National Book Award in 1970 for her novel THEM and the photograph was probably taken around the time of her emergence as a major literary figure. An unusual image of Oates in formal pose WITHOUT THE GLASSES and rarely seen. Pach Brothers unknown
1961réf. 511166Milano: Lerici & Scheiwiller 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. First Italian edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound Some Testimonies. Narrow octavo. 15pp. printed on very thin paper. Text in Italian. Stapled self-wrappers. A bit of creasing at the spine base front cover with a small area of very slight discoloration and two tiny foredge nicks a near fine of a delicate pamphlet. Prints remarks on Pound's Cantos by James Joyce T. S. Eliot Ford Madox Ford William Carlos Williams Ernest Hemingway Archibald MacLeish and Allen Tate. First published in English nearly 30 years prior; Pound had been in Italy for about three years when this pamphlet was published almost certainly to advertise the Italian-language publication of his first 30 cantos translated by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz and published by Lerici & Scheiwiller the same year. Reportedly Lerici & Scheiwiller were the first to publish Pound Langston Hughes Antonio Machado Norman Mailer W.H. Auden Henry Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer in Italian. Very uncommon. Lerici & Scheiwiller unknown
1945réf. b29253New York 1945. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear. paperback
1969réf. 542435London and New York: Transatlantic Review 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Number 32. Glossy wrappers. Slightly sunned spine with light toning at the edge of wraps near fine. Order form laid in. Includes the first appearance of "Cemeteries" by John Updike and "A Benignant Growth" by Anthony Burgess. Addition contributions by: Joyce Carol Oates Muriel Rukeyser Ted Hughes Robert Graves and more. Transatlantic Review unknown
1983réf. 2111902161000319Not Available 1983. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2005réf. B15KS1171Tate Publishing London 2005. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Large square 4to in brown velvet covered boards gilt lettering to spine and front cover with tipped-on colour plate to front cover as issued 91pp colour plates etc __CONDITION : A well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy slight indentations to velvet on front cover. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Tate Publishing, London hardcover
1998réf. 55657Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1998. SIGNED hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Book club edition. Second in this series of anthologies and fairly uncommon in hardcover. SIGNED by FOUR authors: by Sue Grafton on the title page and by John Lescroart Joyce Carol Oates and Walter Mosley. Also includes stories by Mary Higgins Clark Lawrence Block Margaret Maron Donald Westlake John Lutz Peter Robinson Jay McInerney Stuart Kaminsky David Ballard Steve Yarbrough and others. Foreword by series editor Otto Penzler and introduction by Grafton. Also includes notes on the contributors and a list of other distinguished stories of the year. xix 345 pp. Houghton Mifflin, hardcover
réf. 37462Riverside CA: Bo Press Miniature Books n.d. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. A charming miniature book from this well-known private press. Pat Sweet is noted for her many and varied miniature books and objects. This poem is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce 1836-1883 a Limerick-born poet. The poem first published in 1861 tells the story of an Irish rebel from County Wexford who leaves his lover behind to help fight against British colonial rule. The growth of the barley crop every year in the spring is said to symbolize Irish resistance to British oppression. "I sat within a valley green I sat there with my true love My sad heart strove the two between The old love and the new love - The old for her the new that made Me think of Ireland dearly While soft the wind blew down the glade And shook the golden barley." With several illustrations of barley. Printed and bound in Mohawk Superfine paper with a white dust jacket of the same paper. In fine condition. Measures 2 x 3 inches. Unpaginated 34 pages. MINIAT/091323. Bo Press Miniature Books hardcover
1983réf. 017458Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Small tear at the bottom of the front cover; slight strip of sunning to the front edge. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in tall 10-3/4" printed green wraps. First Prize went to Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing." Publication date and price in ink on the front cover. Doubleday & Company, Inc. paperback
1930réf. 68085Paris and New York: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press 1930. First edition limited. Paperback. Good. 72pp. Small quarto 28.5 cm Printed white wrappers. Text printed in green and black. A number of magazine clippings are mounted to the recto and verso of the front flyleaf. The text block cracked at the half title however it is still solid. There is a previous owner's name on front flyleaf. In the glassine wrapper which is lightly soiled and prominently torn and chipped at the spine. Lacking the slipcase. An excerpt from what would become Finnegans Wake Joyce's masterpiece. Copy number 254 of 500 copies on handmade pure linen Vidalon Royal specially manufactured for this edition nos. 101 to 600 from a total edition of 685. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press paperback
réf. 75609London: Jonathan Cape Hodder & Stoughton Weidenfeld & Nicolson Faber Hamish Hamilton and others 1960s-2000s. Biographies etc. A group of fourteen volumes bibliographer's copies. Octavos largest 24 x 16cm. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-jackets. Books have been read but have no significant defects. A few titles Cooper Cooper Fleming & Eden have ink names/inscriptions two Sitwell & Hart-Davis have owner bookplates a few are price-clipped three are reprints Cooper Cooper & Grenfell remainder are first printings. A group of reference books used by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. All have some reference to Ian and/or Ann or Peter Fleming. See Gilbert Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography. London: Jonathan Cape, Hodder & Stoughton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Faber, Hamish Hamilton and others, 1960s-2000s unknown
1980réf. 194499New London Press 1980. First Edition. Pamphlet. 33 copies. Interview with the American author. One of 250 signed and numbered copies First edition 'first printing'. A fine copy in stapled wrappers paperback. Signed by the author on the limitation page. This copy is unnumbered. New London Press unknown
1995réf. 45876Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. Very Good. Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. First Edition. Quarto 25cm; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 168pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit rubbed and worn with long crease across upper cover contents clean and sound. Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by Brooks on title page. Inaugural issue of this literary journal which ran from 1995 through 2004. Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing unknown
1973réf. 100668Vancouver B.C.: Women's Wing Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre 1973. 1973. Very good. - Quarto 10-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide. Unbound sheets. A series consisting of a title leaf seven 4-page brochures including one with a broadsheet insert followed by a colophon leaf with text describing scenarios for performance events celebrating the International Women's Year with profuse illustrations. Near fine. RARE. WorldCat locates only one copy located at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. That copy mentions an envelope not here present. As per the title leaf description by Catherine Hahn and Joyce Ozier of the Women's Wing Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre: "The Aerial Theatre Women's Series is a collection of performance pieces using balloons and/or kites." "Over the past three years the Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre has developed aerial scenarios based on themes ranging from the destruction of the environment to mental patient's rights. The form has proven to be of value in calling attention to issues of concern." "These scenarios are intended to be adapted for your own purposes. Expand on them change them think of more." "Perform them where people naturally congregate; take them to parks beaches downtown plazas rooftops parking lots harbours & courthouse lawns." "The sky is a vast unused theatrical arena - explore its vastness or contain its intimacy." The illustrated brochures consist of descriptions of a "Feminist Balloon Event" by the Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre an illustrated "D'Arcy Event" with a quotation by Frederic Rewski "Human Sexuality" with text from newspaper columns and articles "Abortion Piece for dr morgantaler" with illustrated cover leaves a double-page illustration and an inserted broasheet with a collage of newspaper columns abour Dr Morgantaler "Women's Responsibility" with illustrations of women & men flying kltes "Out From Under" with illustrations of female cut outs attached to flying balloons and "Tokenism" with charts of the percentage of women in various professions. The colophon leaf states that "This publication has been made possible through a grant from the Secretary of State / Women's Program in recognition of International Women's Year." "Photo Credits: D'Arcy Piece - Catherine Hahn; Barbara Trantor / Covering Insert - Vancouver Sun / Human Sexuality - Robert Cook / Women's Responsibility - Sheila Rowswell; Robert Cook / Abortion Piece - Robert Cook / Tokenism Event - Robert Cook; Sheila Rowswell / Media Event - Robert Cook / Feminist Event - Robert Cook." "Acknowledgments: Jane McDonald Christopher Knight Vivian Prince Judith Berlin Richard Nathans Flower Partington Patrick Gillespie Alison Ware Lib Spry. Orving Ozier Christine Jarvis." [Vancouver, B.C.]: Women's Wing, Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre, [1973].
2003réf. 60176AB2003. Jamaica / Barbados / Trinidad & Tobago University of The West Indies Press 2003. 15 cm x 22 cm. XLI 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the editor Irving Adler to Ann Malamud on endpaper. Includes an autobiographical essay on Wilson Harris and chapters such as: Melville and Harris: Poetic Imaginations Related to Their Response to the Modern World / The Evolution of Female Figures and Imagery in Wilson Harris's Novels etc. Sir Theodore Wilson Harris 24 March 1921 8 March 2018 was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry but subsequently became a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English. Wikipedia paperback
1997réf. 39684Limerick City Ireland: Celtic Bookshop 1997. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xxiii 1 632; xi 3 651 1 pp. Frntsps. both vols. numerous illusts text illusts. maps. Uniformly bound in simulated red calf gilt lettrng & rulng on cvrs NF set. Facsimile edition of this very scarce work on the social and political customs of Ancient Ireland. Celtic Bookshop, unknown
1929réf. 48822Paris: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach 1929. Very Good -. Paris: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach 1929. First Edition regular paper issue. Octavo; printed wraps; 194pp. Chipped at extremities; split along top portions of joints; staining and rubbing; a Good to Very Good copy. Samuel Beckett's first book appearance a collection of essays published by Sylvia Beach on the "work in progress" which would become Finnegan's Wake. Carlton Lake No Symbols Where None Intended. University of Texas at Austin 1984; no. 1; Slocum B10. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach unknown
1976réf. 49376Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1976. Very Good/Very Good-. Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1976. First Edition. Slim octavo 22cm; publisher's boards in dust jacket; vi2150pp.; map in text. Some light soil and scattered paper scarring to jacket chiefly at rear panel small remainder mark at bottom textblock edge remnants of old price sticker to front pastedown. About Very Good internally clean and sound. University of Texas Press unknown
réf. RGW25804some creasing and soiling to sleeve Provenance: Purchased at auction in 1994 among the effects of Mrs Joyce Knowles the former custodian of T.E. LawrenceÕs home Clouds Hill. There was an early recording of WagnerÕs opera by the Milan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Romano Romani and produced by Columbia Records. The manner in which this plain sleeve was named is how T.E Lawrence titled his records. unknown
1956réf. 24052Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1956. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's green cloth gilt-lettered spine in original glassine dust jacket; xxix1146pp. Glassine spine toned a few tiny losses at top edge of rear panel otherwise Fine. The first in a series of three "Censuses" by the Joyce scholar. Northwestern University Press unknown
1976réf. 38304Cutchogue: Bucaneer Books 1976. First printing of this reissue. 297 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket as issued. One of 350 copies. Cutchogue: Bucaneer Books hardcover