1945Best.-Nr. D7489likely Germany 1945. Paperback. Very Good. Heavy cardstock leaves oblong 325 x 250 mm bound with thin blue rope tassled along spine; pp. 54 with text handwritten in black ink in German and English with original illustrations in ink or ink and gouache both in text and full-page. Created from 32 leaves some of them glued together along the edges creating a new page when the author/illustrator wanted to change her lay-out text or illustration -- these have since become detached offering an interesting look at the author's creative process. Binding broken and leaves loose but in excellent condition suitable for display. The artwork is extraordinary -- showing cute little chicks as their adventure takes them from fields full of flowers to lakes brimming with colorful fish. It tells a story of 3 little chicks who find a mysterious blue egg which they are told not to play with but they do and learn some valuable lessons from the consequences. Though little is known about the author she appears in a tiny b/w photograph on the ultimate full-page illustration. More of her unrelated artwork is laid-in at rear including pastels of trees floral arrangements in gouache -- lovely suitable for framing. paperback books
1999Best.-Nr. 21995NY: Dutton 1999. First edition. 264 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with one tiny closed tear. SIGNED by Oates on the title page. Promotional flyer laid in. NY: Dutton unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 44513Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1987. First trade paperback printing. 207 pp w/index. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers with some sunning to spine. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press paperback books
2006Best.-Nr. 516836New York: Ecco 2006. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. A novel of suspense by Joyce Carol Oates writing as Lauren Kelly. Ecco unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 37882Berkeley: Union WAGE 1976. Pamphlet. 44p. staplebound pamphlet very good condition. Biographical memorial booklet for Maddox co-founder Union WAGE and its President and a leader of Local 29 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union OPEIU. Union WAGE unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 40742Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1973. First edition numbered & signed issue. 60 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 154b. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 35434Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1973. Second trade paperback printing. 60 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, paperback books
2011Best.-Nr. 2354239New York / New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2011. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 11x9x1. Minimal wear to corners otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2011 Large Softcover. xviii 342 pp. The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty which accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an in-depth discussion of the art and culture produced during this time tracing the origins of the new art forms and exploring daily life in Yuan China in particular at the imperial court and in the capital cities of Xanadu Shangdu and Dadu Beijing and the impact on the arts of various religions. The works of art and the archaeological finds on which the ten essays included in this volume are based are drawn principally from museums in China with additional loans from museums in Taiwan Japan Russia Germany the United Kingdom Canada and the United States. The exhibition and catalogue conceived and organized by James C. Y. Watt Brooke Russell Astor Chairman of the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum illuminate our understanding of both the arts and the material culture of this period telling the story of the emergence of a new Chinese art in a way that it has never before been told. In 1215 the year Khubilai Khan 1215 - 1294 was born the Mongols made their first major incursion into North China initiating a period of innovation in the arts that had its greatest flowering in the Yuan dynasty founded by Khubilai in 1271 and lasting until 1368. The creativity unleashed during this period of approximately 150 years was instigated by the confluence of the many cultures and ethnic groups that were brought together in a unified empire in China which for centuries past had been politically divided. Skilled craftsmen from all over Central and Western Asia were relocated to workshops in North China where they worked alongside Chinese artists exchanging ideas and styles. This interaction eventually resulted in the creation of new art forms that would provide models for the arts of China in all subsequent periods until the twentieth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press paperback books
1949Best.-Nr. 53730London: Methuen 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 161. A very good tight copy in a moderately soiled price clipped dj. A survey of Joyce's work. Methuen unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 314069Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1896. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt t.e.g. Spine a bit dull and soiled at foot. Very Good. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "An account of a fishing party in verse" Bruns also known as Dreams and Chronicles. The fishing trip on Great East Lake took place in "the seventh year of the reign of Grover when the voice of the frog was known throughout the land." Dedicated to the members of the Hopewell Club who are identified in the preface; with an additional poem "To Frank Hopewell" laid in dated May 17 1895 Goodall Camp. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J83; Heller 2:1030 Privately Printed unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. 616244Boston: Roberts Brothers 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition Issued anonymously in the No Name Series of novels. 12mo. Black cloth titled and decorated in red. Contemporary gift inscription spine cocked a little nicking at the crown about very good. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 140940971London: Audio Arts Eo Epso Ltd. 1974. First Edition. Cassette in case with folded J-card. Vol. 1 No. 3. NM. Contents: A1 -Margaret Henry "A Question Of James Joyce" A2 -James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake "Anna Livia Plurabella" B -Mark Hayman "Recollections Of C.K. Ogden And Others"; interviewer - William Furlong Audio Arts was a very early cassette magazine launched in the UK in 1973 by Barry Barker and sculptor William Furlong to spread the radical ideas of contemporary artists and composers. Issues are rare. Audio Arts (Eo Epso Ltd.) unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 5982New York: Gotham Book Mart 1950. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. A Proceeding of the James Joyce Society delivered at the Meeting of November 18 1948. Minor shelf/edge wear touch of sun at the spine booksellers stamp at the rear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps black ink lettering. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. b/w plates. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 5944Stanford CA: Stanford University Libraries 1964. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. includes facsimile reproduction of a page of a Joyce letter and an Augustus John sketch of Joyce as a frontisportrait. Hint of sun at spine else tight bright and unmarred. Pale blue printed wraps black ink lettering. 8vo. 5pp. Illus. b/w plate. Stanford University Libraries unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 38323Boston: Twayne 1988. First edition. 137 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boston: Twayne unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 79846NY: Poetry Center 1950. First edition. 4 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. NY: Poetry Center, unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 86639San Francisco: City Lights Books 1972. Third printing. 58 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Italian by Stanislaus Joyce. [San Francisco]: City Lights Books unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 9013London: Longmans Green & Co. 1960. First printing of this revised edition originally published in 1957. 44 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Writers and Their Work No. 91. London: Longmans, Green & Co. unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 67827San Francisco: City Lights 1970. First US edition. 89 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cook 88. [San Francisco]: City Lights unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 44016Unterengstringen & Hamilton: np 1962-1963. First eighteen issues of this long-running periodical- March 1962 to December 1963. Most have light rust-marks near staples else all are near fine or better. At the beginning of issue 18 is printed “With this issue we wind up A Wake Newslitter Old Style and prepare for our emergence in print early next year.” Unterengstringen & Hamilton: (np) unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 2621Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. First edition. 194 pp. Original printed wrappers with cover design by Sylvia Beach. Top edge uncut and unopened. Some slight overall soiling to the wrappers slight chipping to the lower edge of the spine. Chemised in a custom slipcase. One of 96 numbered copies on Verge d'Arches the numbered copies are twice as thick as the ordinary edition due to the paper used. Various tributes and studies of Joyce's Work in Progress which was published ten years later as Finnegans Wake. As Beach wrote "these were writers who had been watching Work in Progress from the beginning each seeing it from his own angle but interested in Joyce's experiment and friendly towards it." Beckett's first appearance in book form with texts by Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. With letters of protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Federman & Fletcher 1. Wallace B11. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 20503London: Turnstile Press 1948. First edition. 253 pp w/index of authors. One signature improperly trimmed else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two short tears sunning to spine and light edgewear. First book appearance of James Joyce’s “From A Banned Writer To A Banned Singer.” Contributions by Forster Waley Gascoyne Wells Chekov Pritchett L. Woolf C. Connolly V. Woolf Belloc Fry etc. Slocum & Cahoon B28. London: Turnstile Press unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 89690NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Light soiling to top and bottom edge else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read. NY: New Directions unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 38318Boston: Twayne 1990. First edition. 144 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boston: Twayne unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 79845Dublin & NY: Dolmen Press/Gotham Book Mart 1962. First edition. 15 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral price-clipped leaving the US price dust jacket that is sunned to the extrems Dublin & NY: Dolmen Press/Gotham Book Mart unknown books
