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1935réf. 140946387New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1500 signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown. Fine with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
2022réf. 10997London: Faber & Faber 2022. Fascimile. Hardcover. Fine In Fine Box. Fascimile. Hardcover. "Finnegans Wake is a novel by James Joyce written in 1939. It is considered one of the most complex books in English literature as well as being unique in its experimental writing style. The purpose of the work is to visually display this complexity. Using a classic 1965 edition by Faber and Faber the book was disbound woven and rebound respecting the original order of the pages and preserving the same cover. The new edition consists of 4 volumes covering the four parts and 450 pages of the original edition." Artist Statement Concept and weaving by Ximena Pérez Grobet. Unbinding and rebinding by Poncho Martínez. Assistant Teresa del Junco. The unique copy was placed in 2020 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Before it was sent off Ximena had the work carefully documented leaf by leaf volume by volume. She then sought to have an edition produced that might make the monumental work more accessable to a broader audience. Thus this edition embodies as much as can be captured of the original maintaining the four volumes mirroring Joyce's sections and housed in a pictorial flapped slipcase the inner flap of which contains a printed description of the project. Tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps housed in a matching flapped slipcase. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Numbered limited edition of 300. Signed by the artist. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1990réf. 2354769New York: Vintage Books / Penguin Random House LLC 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x7. Recent reprint of 1990 reissue 13-digit ISBN. Wrappers lightly scuffed otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. xvii 783 pp. Includes foreword by Morris L. Ernst as well as the decision of the United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey which lifted the ban imposed on the book by the Tariff Act of 1930. "Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2 1922 in Paris. Many consider it one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day June 16 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus Latinised into Ulysses the hero of Homer's Odyssey e.g. the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus Molly Bloom and Penelope and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus. Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday. Ulysses totals about 265000 words from a vocabulary of 30030 words including proper names plurals and various verb tenses divided into 18 'episodes'. Since publication the book attracted controversy and scrutiny ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual 'Joyce Wars.' Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique careful structuring and experimental prose - full of puns parodies and allusions - as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999 the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Vintage Books / Penguin Random House LLC paperback books
1968réf. 48671New York: The Viking Press 1968. Near fine. First printing of this early James Joyce poem about his infatuation with a student composed around 1914 but long unpublished. This attractive work not only offers a brief history of the poem but contains facsimiles of all 16 pages of the original manuscript. An interesting look at Joyce's writing before the longer works that would define his career. 8.75'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards with title label to front. In original slipcase with title label to front. Illustrated in black and white with two fold-out plates. xviii 16 18 6 pages. Slipcase with a hint of sunning to edges. Binding with a touch of sunning to spine. Tight. The Viking Press unknown books
1945réf. RJOYINT00araFaber and Faber 1945. Very Good. Joyce James. Introducing James Joyce: A Selection of Joyce's Prose. Eliot T.S. London: Faber and Faber 1945. 146pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping. Previous bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1977réf. 55740Portage Indiana: The Compulsive Printer 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 50/75. Quarto. Unpaginated 32 leaves. Original burgundy velvet clamshell with gilt relief serigraph inset housed in red paper-covered clamshell box with black lettering on red label of spine. Signed and numbered in pencil by D'Ambrosio on all three block print title pages and colophon. Here also signed by the printer Elmore Mundell. The Mookse and the Gripes is Joyce's retelling of Aesop's fable of 'The Fox and the Grapes.' It was originally published in 1939. This edition is illustrated with numerous block prints and serigraphs in color and b/w. This edition of The Mookse and the Gripes limited to seventy-five copies and five artist proofs has been set in 18 point Bulmer and printed on Rives BFK paper by the Compulsive Printer Portage Indiana on a No. 3 Vandercook proof press. All serigraphs blockprints and binding by D'Ambrosio. Cover relief-serigraph gilded with 23 K gold. The story is taken from 'Two Tales of Shem and Shaun.' This edition published by Joseph J. D'Ambrosio 3824 Alta Vista Terrace Chicago Illinois 60613. This copy is number 50/75 and signed by the artist and printer. Outer clamshell box with light wear two small closed tear at head and tail of front edge of spine. The Compulsive Printer hardcover books
1977réf. 45449Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1977. Collector's Edition. Leather_bound. Near fine to fine. Quarto. xvii 2 254pp. Green leather boards with gilt decorative pattern on covers gilt lettering and patterns on spine. Color illustrated frontispiece. Honey colored decorative cloth end papers. Gilt paper edges. Honey colored fabric bookmark bound in. This Easton Press collector's edition of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series is James Joyce's first novel. Joyce's fictional alter ego Stephen Dedalus awakens both religiously and intellectually questioning and rebelling against the Catholic church and Irish conventions. Illustrated throughout with imaginative b/w and color illustrations. Binding and interior in near fine to fine condition overall. Easton Press unknown books
1937réf. 2884Paris: np 1937. Very Good. POWERFUL IMAGE OF JAMES JOYCE BY SURREALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER JOSEF BREITENBACH. A remarkable set of circumstances had to come together to this photograph of James Joyce by German born photographer Josef Breitenbach to first exist and then to survive. Throughout the summer of 1937 as he experienced increasingly painful flashes in his right eye Joyce pored over early proofs of Finnegan's Wake then known only as "Work in Progress". Perhaps he was preoccupied with correcting the inevitable and myriad errors in his pun-flecked stream of consciousness prose or perhaps he was overcome with pain but we know from Breitenbach's pocket diary that Joyce canceled four times before the two exiled artists finally met. James Joyce's relationship with Ireland was famously complex and included self imposed exile. He and Nora Barnacle his future wife left Dublin in 1904 for mainland Europe never returning to his homeland after 1912. On the other hand photographer Josef Breitenbach was a Jewish German refugee who fled the rising Nazi's. Both his Jewish background and prior involvement with the short-lived revolution of 1918 made him an early target of the Brownshirts who knocked on his Munich studio door one day in 1932. Thinking on his feet Breitenbach was able to use his portrait of then Vice-Chancellor Papen whom he had photographed the year before together with a letter of thanks from Papen for his work in order to claim that he was under Papen's protection. Seizing the brief vacuum created by his subterfuge Breitenbach immediately packed his bags and within days departed for Paris. Once in Paris Breitenbach mingled with the Surrealists showing in gallery exhibitions alongside Man Ray Henri Cartier-Bresson and Brassai. Over time he developed a reputation for landscapes nudes and photo-journalism. By the time Breitenbach photographed James Joyce in July 1937 he had built a portfolio of portraits of artists such as Max Ernst Emile Bernard and Bertold Brecht. Studio portraits like this print of Joyce were often bathed in a soft seductive glow both flattering and intriguing. Here Joyce sits in profile with clasped hands behind him are blurred rows upon rows of bookshelves. The message is clear: despite failing vision Joyce remained a bright and vibrant writer. Meanwhile history marched on. Two years later in September 1939 Breitenbach was placed with other German and Jewish exiles in a French internment camp. His survival skills still intact he volunteered for a rural labor force that saved him from deportation to a concentration camp. With the help of friends in England and the United States Breitenbach once again fled the Nazi's arriving in New York in June 1941. To his enormous relief his entire oeuvre of photographic prints and negatives including the Joyce pictures had been smuggled out of Paris by another friend and sent to the States by way of Havana. As Breitenbach once again built a life for himself in a new country he turned to his pre-war work. Among the first negatives he developed were those of Joyce - an homage to the writer who had died months before at age 59 in Zurich. Silver gelatin photograph. Taken in 1937; printed later. With "Estate of Josef Breitenbach" stamp on verso. Very faint corner crease only noticeable on verso. Image approx 9x7 1/2 in / 23 x 19.2 cm; with margins 9 3/8 x 7 7/8 in / 23.8 x 19.9 cm. A beautiful evocative image. Rare. References: Michael Shnayerson Josef Breitenbach: James Joyce 9 Portraits. Dublin The Towers 2004. np unknown books
1982réf. UJOYPOR00jtmPenguin 1982. Very Good. Joyce James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Anderson Chester G. NY: Penguin 1982. 570pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with red bookstore stamp and writing in ink on half title. Penguin paperback books
1925réf. 459674New York City: Samuel Roth 1925. Softcover. Very Good. First American printing. Four quarterly issues in printed wrappers. Volume 1 Nos. 1-4 September 1925; December 1925; March 1926; June 1926. Contains the first four of five installments of an unauthorized serial appearance of Finnegans Wake reprinted from European publications. One of 500 copies printed. Small ownership signature of a noted American psychologist in ink on the first page of each issue. The back cover of issue no. 1 also has a small presentation in ink to the psychologist. Toning and light dust soiling to the printed wrappers some creasing and short tears to the spines very good housed in two cloth slipcases covered with brown paper tape. The first four consecutive issues of Samuel Roth's Two Worlds containing a scarce pirated American printing of Finnegans Wake a 20th Century literary highspot. Slocum and Cahoon C65; Burgess 99 and Connolly 100 one of only three titles on both lists. Samuel Roth unknown books
1961réf. 516890New York: Galaxy Music 1961. Softcover. Good. First edition. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Age toning offsetting to the bottom of the front cover and light bumping to the corners very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "GMC 2177." The back cover features a sample of "Ballad from Pantaloon" by Bernard Stambler and Robert Ward. Galaxy Music unknown books
1959réf. 609972Philadelphia: Elkan-Vogel Co 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Light toning and light bumping to the corners else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Brigid’s Song - 2. Elkan-Vogel Co unknown books
1959réf. 587665Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: Elkan-Vogel 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Faint sticker shadow on the back cover else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Noise of Waters - 3. Elkan-Vogel unknown books
1959réf. 514564Bryn Mawr PA: Elkan-Vogel Co 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Some sticker residue on the front cover else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Unique Heart - 2." Born and educated in Philadelphia Vincent Persichetti went on to teach composition at Juilliard where his students included Philip Glass Steve Reich and many other notable composers. Elkan-Vogel Co unknown books
1952réf. 516985New York: G. Schirmer Inc 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Quarto. 11pp. Stapled wrappers. Some toning to the wrappers else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 42658. The lyrics for this song were pieced together from various lines over three pages in Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake. Writing for the National Association for the Teachers of Singing Howard Pollack says "Samuel Barber’s 1947 'Nuvoletta' the only freestanding song of his maturity has long been a niche favorite among performers critics and listeners" going on to quote James Quillian "'No matter that the words are somewhat strange; the music is positively captivating and a joy to perform.' G. Schirmer, Inc unknown books
1939réf. 526869New York: G. Schirmer 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Bumping to the corners and toning very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "38374c. G. Schirmer unknown books
1939réf. 507777New York: G. Schirmer 1939. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-inert making six pages. Light bumping to the corners else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 38372. The lyrics to this piece are from a poem in Joyce's collection Chamber Music. G. Schirmer unknown books
1939réf. 584998New York: G. Schirmer 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Later printings. A set of three songs for voice and piano. Quartos. Nested bifoliums. Sticker shadow on the front cover of "Sleep Now" some edgewear and two internal tape repairs to "Rain Has Fallen" overall a very good and complete set. The work of two titans of 20th century artistic expression is brought together in this set of three compositions set to poems from Joyce's collection Chamber Music. Just as Joyce continues to be celebrated in the world of literature Samuel Barber remains an important figure in American music probably best remembered today for his heartbreaking Adagio for Strings. G. Schirmer unknown books
1961réf. 515481London: Boosey & Hawkes 1961. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making four pages. Price stamp with sticker shadow at the top of the front cover light bumping to the corners and light age toning still very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "B. & H. 18866. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
1947réf. 587713New York: Mercury Music 1947. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Light bumping to the corners and toning and rubbing to the exterior very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "M.P. - S. 805 - 2." The lyrics for this song come from James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Mercury Music unknown books
1949réf. 587704New York: G. Schirmer 1949. Softcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light toning else near fine. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate number 43512. OCLC locates seven holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. G. Schirmer unknown books
1955réf. 414208Cambridge Massachusetts: The Poets' Theatre Workshop 1955. Hardcover. Good. Broadside illustrated in color on stiff cardstock. Measuring 10.25" x 13.75". Two incorrectly used printed apostrophes are whited-out by hand some horizontal creases and a small light stain near very good. Poster for Manning’s stage adaptation of Joyce’s novel that Manning arranged in 1955 as The Voice of Shem. Manning was a regular cast member at the Abbey Theatre a playwright and was a filmmaker. After a distinguished career in Ireland she moved to Boston where she served as managing director of the Idler Theatre at Radcliffe College in the 1940s and was one of the founding members of the Poet’s Theatre in Cambridge in 1950. The poster notes that tickets were on sale at the Mandrake Book Store on Boylston Street in Cambridge. Interesting period-style illustration of a beer quaffer blathering over the cantilevered corpse of Finnegan. The original performances were in April of 1955; this return engagement ran for little more than a week in late November and early December 1955. OCLC locates no copies of the poster although copies of Manning's adaptation in book form published by the Harvard University Press are plentiful. We found a black and white rendition of the poster image online on a French blog but could find no illuminating information there. Presumably these posters would have been extremely ephemeral. The Poets' Theatre Workshop hardcover books
1951réf. 564891New York: Folkways Records 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Original long playing microgroove 12" 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album. Light wear from play else near fine in a very good cardboard sleeve with a paper label affixed to the front cover with rubbing bumping and edgewear including some splitting to the bottom. Features an introduction by Padraic Colum readings from Finnegans Wake comments from Joseph Campbell and a recording of Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle." There was also an extended double LP released this is the single LP version. Folkways Records unknown books
1957réf. 504314Minneapolis: McCosh's Book Store 1957. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition and first hardcover edition originally published as a pamphlet in Dublin in 1901. Tall octavo. 18pp. Printed cloth. Slight soiling else a fine copy issued without printed dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies. McCosh's Book Store hardcover books
1957réf. 508530Minneapolis: McCosh's Book Store 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition and first hardcover edition originally published as a pamphlet in Dublin in 1901. Tall octavo. 18pp. Printed cloth. Owner's ink name on front flyleaf else a near fine copy issued without printed dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies. McCosh's Book Store hardcover books
