1992réf. 505624New York: The Sheep Meadow Press 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed red wrappers. Light crease along the spine else near fine. The Sheep Meadow Press unknown books
1999réf. UJONMUH00crBulfinch 1999. Very Good. Jones James Earl introduction. Muhammad Ali: Ringside. Haley Alex; Mailer Norman; Oates Joyce Carol; Richmond Peter. Boston: Bulfinch 1999. 128pp. Illustrated. Square folio. Black cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Bulfinch hardcover books
1967réf. 151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages. Set in Dublin and shot there on location. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. Continental Distributing unknown books
1971réf. 46178Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1971. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1971. First Edition stated. Octavo 21.5cm; photo dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine; xxvi304pp. Jacket shows a few closed tears and creases along edges and chipping at spine ends with some smudging and soiling to rear panel. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends Binding sound and pages unmarked. Sociologist civil rights activist and editor Joyce Ladner's first book a study of black womanhood. Doubleday & Company unknown books
1972réf. 46108Garden City NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company Inc 1972. Very Good. Garden City NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company Inc. 1972. First Paperback Edition. Signed by Joyce Ladner without inscription at title page. Mass market paperback 17.75cm; photo-illustrated wraps; 296pp. advertisements. Wear and creasing to edges and joints; soiling and light spotting to rear wrap and edges of text block; pages unmarked; a Very Good autographed copy of sociologist civil rights activist and editor Joyce Ladner's first book a study of black womanhood. Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1967réf. 31708New York: The Vanguard Press 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press 1967. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; viii440pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with dark green and white lettering to spine; red topstain. Jacket rubbed and creased along edges with a few shallow closed tears sunning to spine and scuffs and tears to head and tail; scattered foxing to verso with tape reinforcement at head. Boards faded along edges with some scuffs and dust-soiling to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. A bit of fading to topstain. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in at front. Oates' second novel — the first in her Wonderland Quartet and a finalist for the 1968 National Book Award. The Vanguard Press unknown books
1989réf. 3860First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only light age-spotting to the top of the exterior text block and some gentle rubbing to the spine ends. SIGNED by the author to the front free paper with provenance for the signing laid in bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Dutton Adult hardcover books
réf. 000502Dutton 1989 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 64mo - up to 3" tall. ISBN:0-525-24725-4. Mint copy of galley proof. Dutton, 1989 Paperback books
1963réf. 157813New York: Vanguard 1963. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Richard / Joyce Carol Oates." The author's first book. Jacket spine lightly faded and rubbed else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Vanguard unknown books
1976réf. 125465New York: Vanguard 1976. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition Near Fine and unread in tall gold wrappers. Vanguard unknown books
1990réf. 31433Toronto: Exile Editions 1990. Very Good /Very Good . Toronto: Exile Editions 1990. First Edition. Slim octavo 23 cm; 188pp. Publisher's red illustrated dust jacket with price intact $23.95. Boards full bound in bright red cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Black endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed rubbed and bumped with superficial scratches to surface. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends with minor bowing inward to boards. Binding slightly cocked but firm. Top edge toned and dust soiled. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket. Bookplate signed by Oates loosely laid in at half title. A collection of sixteen 16 short stories all of which first appeared in the Canadian literary magazine Exile. Exile Editions unknown books
réf. 000583Dutton 1986 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:`0-525-24446-8. Mint copy of galley proof. Dutton, 1986 Paperback books
réf. 000501Ecco Press 1988 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint copy of galley proof. Ecco Press, 1988 Paperback books
1967réf. 133843New York: The Vanguard Press 1967. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Gunter -- / With best wishes / Joyce Carol Oates / 9-22-67." Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction 1968 and winner of the M.L. Rosenthal Award 1968. The author's second novel. First of the "Wonderland Quartet" novels the others being "Expensive People" 1968 "them" 1969 and "Wonderland" 1971. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Foxing to the page edges slight fading to the extremities faint splash to the top page edges. Jacket spine slightly faded light shelfwear and foxing and a long crease to the rear flap. The Vanguard Press unknown books
réf. 000517Dutton 1983 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-525-24166-3. Mint copy of galley proof. Dutton, 1983 Paperback books
1994réf. 46506Huntington Beach CA: James Cahill Publishing 1994. Very Good . Huntington Beach CA: James Cahill Publishing 1994. Limited Edition of 75 signed and numbered copies of which this is number 23. 12mo 18.3cm; marbled boards and leather spine with gilt lettering; 28pp. Faint bow to front board toward fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription on limitation page at front. Limited standalone issue of Oates' short story which would become the titular tale in a larger collection that same year. 26 deluxe-bound copies were issued simultaneously. James Cahill Publishing unknown books
1994réf. 133998Huntington Beach CA: James Cahill Publishing 1994. First Edition. First Edition. 12mo. combed marbled boards and faux leather spine gilt titles marbled endpapers. One of 75 numbered copies this being No. 35 SIGNED by the author. Additionally inscribed to Oscar-winning director-producer Tony Bill on the front endpaper: "To Tony Bill / Complements from the publisher." From the collection of Tony Bill whose credits include "The Sting" 1973 producer "Soldier in the Rain" 1963 actor "Shampoo" 1975 actor and "Five Corners" 1987 director-producer. Slight lean else Fine. James Cahill Publishing unknown books
1992réf. 161314N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage oversize portrait photograph of author Joyce Carol Oates. Dated October 24 1992 in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto with Oates' name and a credit for photographer Geraint Lewis. Layout annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. In 1992 Lewis released her novella "Black Water" based on the real-life 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving US senator Ted Kennedy. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2004réf. 166442New York: Ecco 2004. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author as Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Ecco unknown books
1974réf. 603371974. 8vo pp. 48. Faded strip on rear cover. Laid in is a note from the editor to poet William Jay Smith. unknown books
1945réf. 7035London: Michael Joseph Ltd 1945. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1945 1st edition of this Joyce Cary poem. VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with very light soiling to the panels. Thin 12mo 28 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco box. Michael Joseph Ltd unknown books
1933réf. 162038Universal City: Universal Pictures 1933. Vintage keybook publicity photograph of actress Joyce Compton in a fur-lined jacket and silk dress circa 1933. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joyce Compton appeared extensively in films from the mid-1920s through the 1950s most notably in "Bedtime Story" 1941 and "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945. 8 x 10 inches. Good with an inch-long closed tear on the right edge and light creasing at the bottom right corner. Universal Pictures unknown books
1994réf. 294392Bridgewater VA: Good Printers Inc 1994. First edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed & Inscribed by the author on title page; otherwise without marks. A bright copy. Very Good binding. Good Printers, Inc unknown books
1975réf. 159968N.p.: Public Broadcasting Service PBS 1975. Vintage studio still photograph of actors Joyce Ebert Joseph Maher and Geraldine Fitzgerald from the 1975 broadcast of the 1971 stage play. With mimeo snipe on the recto identifying Long Wharf Theatre of New Haven as the theatre company the names of the actors and promoting the play's broadcast on March 26 1975 on Channel 24. Also with provenance stamp on the verso. A forty-something-year-old man looks back on his childhood in England during World War II often literally walking as a grown man next to his younger self his parents and his wife when they first met. Set in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] unknown books
1950réf. 165992Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage Halloween-themed publicity photograph of actress Joyce Holden dressed as a witch painting a jack-o-lantern. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Holden worked as a Universal contract player appearing in over 30 films throughout the early and mid-1950s before retiring from acting in 1958. She is today best remembered for her screen debut in "The Milkman" 1950. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
