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1991réf. 505249Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1991. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Fine. Contains essays by Woody Allen John Updike Amy Tan and Frank Conroy among others. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
1991réf. 567856New York: Ticknor & Fields 1991. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Robert Atwan series editor. Fine. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
2000réf. 9013575Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000. Advanced Reading Copy. paperback. Fine Condition. Uncorrected proof bound in publisher's original wrappers. Houghton Mifflin paperback books
1951réf. 599562Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Book club edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Octavo. xv 368pp. Pages lightly age-toned near fine in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities. Bernard Malamud's first book appearance with "The Prison". Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword and contains stories by Roger Angell Nathan Asch Peggy Bennett Mary Bolté Hortense Calisher Leonard Casper R.V. Cassill John Cheever Harris Downey Elizabeth Enright J. Carol Goodman Ethel Edison Gordon William Goyen Shirley Jackson Josephine W. Johnson Ilona Karmel Oliver La Farge George Lanning Ethel G. Lewis Dorothy Livesay Robie Macauley Bernard Malamud Esther Patt J.F. Powers Paul Rader Jean Stafford Ray B. West Jr. and Tennessee Williams. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1979réf. 571276Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. Comb bound wrappers. Faint paperclip impression and modest soiling on front cover very good. Contributors include Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud Flannery O'Connor William Styron Isaac Bashevis Singer Maxine Kumin Ruth McLaughlin and Louis Rubin. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1963réf. 187969Australia: The Jacaranda Press 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library with a "Books Across the Sea" bookplate on the front fly along with a notation in a very good minus dust jacket with tears along the edges. The Jacaranda Press hardcover books
1976réf. 11115Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1976. First edition. 12 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single short story issued as Sparrow 45. Morrow & Cooney 237. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, unknown books
1977réf. 140941466New York: Avon 1977. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Joyce Thompson on the title page. viii 246 pp. Publisher's wraps with red stained edges. A Very Good copy with uncreased spine bright wraps hint of sunning along top edge slightly shelf rubbed small ding to front wrap. A forgotten dystopian science fiction novel. Online reviewer Brad Bigelow likens it the work of Ursula K. Le Guin writing that it is "set in a world in which America is run by white people waited on by people of color from the Third World. Medical science has advanced to the point where immortality is possible but to keep its possible complications from spiraling out of control it's also made available only to a selected portion of the population." Rare signed. Avon unknown books
1975réf. 31856Turtles Quill Scriptorium 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Number 120 of 125 copies. "Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn is based on a tale told to Mark Twain in the winter of 1864-5 at Jackass Hill by Jim Gillis a prospector friend with a literary bent. It appeared in 1880 in 'A Tramp Abroad'" page 21. Blue paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Minor fading to spine panel and a few spots of foxing to covers. Clean interior. P RI/031518. Turtles Quill Scriptorium paperback books
1972réf. 003464New York: Peter H. Wyden 1972. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. First Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Dr. Joyce Brothers on front endpage "To June Miller- warm good wishes. I hope I can call you a friend. Joyce". At bottom edge front endpage in different ink from the inscription is the address "305 E. 86th St. N.Y.C. 10028" Near Fine top edge lightly dusted in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with small dampstains along top and bottom edges. Peter H. Wyden Hardcover books
2022réf. 15502jCambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2022. thus. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps photographs and explanatory footnotes it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters on June 16 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. 963 pages. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1959réf. 112941New York: Harper & Brothers 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine with some rubbing to the boards in about very good dust jacket with some perimeter creases a few tears and tape reinforced to the interior of the jacket. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1959réf. 168477New York: Harper 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later. Very good in good dust jacket. Name on end paper. Dustwrapper rubbed with a few tears some scratches. Harper hardcover books
1959réf. 4663New York: Harper & Brothers 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Introduction by David Cecil. Slight offsetting to endpapers and mottling to the boards thus very good in very good plus dustwrapper with a tear at the edge of the front panel and some general rubbing. Posthumously published novel and uncommon. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1959réf. 89634NY:: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. A novel. Introduction by David Cecil. An early printing. Near fine in a near fine a few short closed edge tears dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy. . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
1959réf. 53385London: Michael Joseph 1959. First edition. 316 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn. Carey’s last novel left incomplete. Introductory note by Winifred Davin. London: Michael Joseph unknown books
1941réf. 570719London: Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books 1941. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Foreword by George Orwell. Small octavo. 127 1pp. Printed wrappers. Small neat owner name on first leaf stains mostly confined on front wrap very good. Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books unknown books
1981réf. 102817NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0805237828 . Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Gift inscription on title page else very good in a very good crease on front flap dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
1981réf. 89272NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0805237828 . Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Spine slant else very good in a very good rippling to rear panel dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
1978réf. 275906Seattle: Hancock House Publishers 1978. Paperback. 142p. pictorial wraps illus. pages evenly toned else in very good condition. Hancock House Publishers paperback books
2013réf. UJOYCHI00tmmPublic Affairs 2013. Very Good. Joyce Kathryn. The Child Catchers: Rescue Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption. NY: Public Affairs 2013. 332pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle rubbing. Public Affairs hardcover books
1967réf. 22568New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1968 c.1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. nice clean book a bit of wear to spine ends; jacket shows only light surface wear. "The story of a most unlikely spy" one Edmund Brown introduced by the author in her earlier book "Sour Cream with Everything." Here she "irreverently juggles the familiar paraphernalia of midnight tiptoeing hidden microphones and conniving seduction into a hilarious travesty of the spy story which will titillate the ever-increasing number of her followers." This was the second of her four Edmund Brown adventures. . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1916réf. 10540Laurence J. Gomme 1916. KILMER Joyce. THE CIRCUS AND OTHER ESSAYS. NY: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. 12mo. cloth & boards. First Edition later issue with an inserted slip stating that the publication has been taken over by Mitchell Kennerley. Very Good covers bright little browning endpapers. $20.00. Laurence J. Gomme unknown books
1916réf. 330792New York: Laurence Gomme 1916. First. hardcover. near fine. Small 8vo cloth backed boards. New York: Laurence Gomme 1926. First Edition. Autographed by Kilmer 1917. Near fine copy with bookplate. Laurence Gomme unknown books
1916réf. 200929New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. First edition. Small hardcover. 79 pages. Measures 4.5" wide by 6.75" high. The second issue with the Kennerly label on the front pastedown. A close to near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with a large bookplate to the front pastedown and some slight residue from where the dust jacket flap stuck to it and in a very good plus dust jacket with some small chips and some slight loss to the verso of the front flap. A very pleasing copy in the somewhat uncommon dust jacket. Laurence J. Gomme unknown books
