1986Best.-Nr. 570509Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1986. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with two woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Last few pages and rear wrap lightly creased small stains at bottom corner very good in a very good unprinted dust jacket with corresponding small stains and faint soil on rear panel. Number 69 of 100 copies Signed by Oates and Azarian. William B. Ewert unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 500221Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1986. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated with two woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Small quarto. Fine in printed wrappers and fine glassine dust jacket with just a bit of wear. Number 41 of 100 copies Signed by Oates and Azarian. William B. Ewert unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 364893Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1986. Softcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. Fine in a very good unprinted dustwrapper with toning at the edges. Number 15 of 100 copies Signed by the author. William B. Ewert unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. ST15753eThe Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch and 29 special signed copies on Japon. 241 x 162 mm. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8". 4 p.l. first blank 77 3 pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver blue titling on front cover and spine ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a slightly worn brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled one corner just lightly bumped otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake" beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large round and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia 1907-82 was diagnosed with schizophrenia when in her early twenties and was permanently institutionalized by 1935. She had desperately tried and failed to become a dancer and Joyce was determined to find a new artistic outlet for her believing it would be therapeutic. He hit upon the design of ornamental capitals like this one and even went so far as to give publishers the money to pay her for her work. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
Best.-Nr. 34308Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Early English Text Society No 228 1953. 148 pages clothbound very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 573038Logan Iowa: The Perfection Form Company 1982. Softcover. Fine. First separate edition. 12mo. 38pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Published for educational purposes with questions printed in the rear very uncommon. OCLC locates five copies. First published in Oates' 1972 collection Marriages and Infidelities. The Perfection Form Company unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 79112London: Victor Gollancz 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine with tiny bumps on the spine and bottom edge of board in a price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with light edgewear and some minor chipping to the spine. Novel set in Roman Britain and based on the tradition that pilgrimages were made to the Scilly Isles off Cornwall to honor the mermaid goddess. Told through events in the life of the girl Astria chosen to be the mortal embodiment of the goddess. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 234200Ecco 2016-01-19. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1x5x9. Signed. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. First Edition First Printing. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor foxing. Ecco hardcover books
2016Best.-Nr. 1405251New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2016. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 369 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering price uncut: "U.S.A. $27.99/CANADA $34.99". Quarter bound in light blue paper with dark blue paper boards. Flat signed by author on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1405251. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 61681Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1978. Second printing small folio pp. 255 1; map endpapers 3 bifolium inserts printed in color illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original charcoal cloth stamped in white on upper cover and spine; the dust jacket with a few short tears and nicks. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Adrian Wilson on the half-title: "For Kim Merker / best of friends / and best of printers / Adrian Wilson October 14 1983." Mr. Wilson reconstructs "the making of the Nuremberg Chronicle; the compilation of manuscript sources by its author; the artists' first concepts for the illustrations; the patrons' agreements for financing the publication; the layouts; the printing; the advertising; the distribution and the final settlement" p.11. Nico Israel unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 1395292Amsterdam Netherlands: NICO ISRAEL 1978. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Tall quarto 255 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is beige with black lettering. Dust jacket has mild soiling and staining along head of front cover an open chip along the front head joint small tears along tail edges and corners and a 1 in. closed tear along the rear head edge. Boards fully bound in charcoal cloth with mild shelving wear along spine head. Mild bending wear along tail fore corner of front free endpaper. Contains a letter from Adrian Wilson Author to William Gardiner signed in his hand bound with adhesive to the front free endpaper verso. Between the front endpapers are two letters of correspondence between Wilson and Gardiner: a carbon copy of Gardiner's letter to Wilson and Wilson's reply written entirely in his hand. Shelved in Rm. A. The Nuremberg Chronicle also known as the "Liber Chronicarum" "is after the Gutenberg Bible probably the most celebrated of early printed books. It is a compendium of history geography and the wonders of the world as viewed from medieval Nuremberg with some 1800 illustrations provided by the multiple use for different subjects of 645 beautiful woodblocks." n.b. quote from "The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs" by Adrian Wilson printed for The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles 1969. Wilson became renowned for his printing and book design work at his San Francisco printing operation The Press at Tuscany Valley throughout the 1960s and 70s. In 1967 he released influential title in the genre of Books on Books THE DESIGN OF BOOKS. Book making perforated the entirety of Wilson's life. With the help and interest of his wife Joyce Lancaster Wilson Wilson invested his attention in studying the entire production process of THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE the first known book to include a rudimentary map of Europe a plethora of woodcuts and a history of the world beginning at creation. The book that came out of it Wilson's THE MAKING OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE is an astute and thorough study on one of the earliest examples of exemplary book making. This particular copy includes correspondence between William Gardiner an English author and Adrian Wilson. 1395292. Special Collections. NICO ISRAEL hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 2354232Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1976. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 13x9x1. 2nd printing. A few minor blemishes to rear jacket panel otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. 255 1 pp. A fascinating glimpse into the planning production and profitability of a printed work from the age of incunabula. The Nuremberg Chronicle is unique in that records of each of these exist and are available for scholarly study. Wilson offers a detailed study of the making of an early illustrated book taken from surviving page layouts original contracts for the illustrations contracts for printing etc. and also provides a history of the printer Anton Koberger and a list of known copies of the first Latin and German editions. Nico Israel hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 47832Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1966. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this story of a US teacher who convinces a Welsh boy who may or may not be part witch that school is worthwhile. Trina Schart Hyman the NEW YORK TIMES notes "illustrated an entire shelf of children's books and inspired many others who worked in the genre." Hyman illustrated over 150 books over her busy career for which she earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors. In addition to her work for children's books she served as an art director and staff artist for beloved children's magazine CRICKET from 1972-1979. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped $3.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 176 pages. Inscribed by Varney to front flyleaf "To Margaret Coit / With all my Love." Jacket with some edgewear; spine a bit toned with short chip to spine head slightly affecting author name. Binding with scattered soil light bumping to spine ends. Interior clean and bright. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 202731USA: Ginn & Co 1972. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Gregorio Prestopino. Very good. Ginn & Co unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 52376Northridge: Lord John Press 1984. First Limited Edition. One of an undetermined number marked "Presentation Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Slim octavo 23.5cm; letterpress-printed sheets sewn into original unprinted white card wrappers; folded patterned paper dustjacket with title label mounted to front cover; 20pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Slim volume collecting six poems four of which first appeared in the pages of Bennington Review Georgia Review Poetry and Southern Review. The entire run consisted of 125 copies in wrappers with 26 lettered copies bound in boards. Lord John Press unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 1404639New York: Ecco 2015. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 353 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is off-white with red and black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut "$27.99" on front flap. Boards have moderate shelving wear along spine tail and denting to joints. Textblock has mild age-toning along edges and throughout interior extremities. Signed flat on title page by Joyce Carol Oates. Shelved in Room Z. 1404639. Special Collections - Upstairs. Ecco hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 507990London: William Heinemann 1958. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 77pp. Printed wrappers. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped covers with light edgewear very good in publisher's wraparound band. Index to volume four laid in. Includes an essays on T.S. Eliot by John Wain and Joyce Cary by Andrew Wright; additional contributions by John Holloway Samuel Selvon Ruthven Todd Robert Nye Jack Carey and more. William Heinemann unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 103064London: Messrs Chatto and Windus 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Very good in wrappers with bumped top corner and spine ends as well as a few wrinkles in spine cover. Messrs Chatto and Windus) unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 576089Garden City New York: The Literary Guild 1973. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. 30pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Fine. The Literary Guild unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 576091Garden City New York: The Literary Guild 1976. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. 12pp. Self-wrappers. Fine. Includes an interview with Joyce Carol Oates. The Literary Guild unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. USTELEI00drpKeepsake 1989. Very Good. Steward Joyce S. The Leisure Pen: A Book for Elderwriters. Croft Mary K. Amherst: Keepsake 1989. 206pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Signed by Joyce S. Steward on first page. Keepsake paperback books
1996Best.-Nr. UJOYLEA00sndLaura Geringer / Harper Colllins circa 1996. Very Good. Joyce William. The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. NY: Laura Geringer / Harper Colllins circa 1996. Illustrated. 4to. Glossy paper over boards. Book condition: Very good with some scuffing. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Panels scratched most noticeable on rear panel. Laura Geringer / Harper Colllins hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 139377Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters from his books "Headed for a Hearse" "The Lady in the Morgue" "Murder in the Madhouse" "The Dead Don't Care" and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films the first two being "The Westland Case" 1937 and "The Lady in the Morgue" 1938. Here Bill Crane Foster visits a country estate where the occupants have been receiving threatening letters from someone called "The Eye." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus waviness and faint tape residue on the rectos. Universal Pictures unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 68619Cambridge Massachusetts: Pomegranate Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Printed papercovered boards very slightly rubbed else fine. One of 20 lettered artist proof copies this being copy I bound by Skip Carpenter of the Green Dragon Bindery Signed by the author and by Karyl Klopp the artist with an extra suite of plates laid into a pocket in the back pastedown. Pomegranate Press hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. UKILKIL00mfHastings House 1949. Very Good. Kilgore William H. The Kilgore Journal of an Overland Journey to California in the Year 1850. Muench editor Joyce Rockwood. NY: Hastings House 1949. 63pp. 8vo. Hardcover in a brown slipcase. Book condition: Very good. Title pasted on spine peeling slightly. Corners of slipcase are lightly rubbed. Numbered 301 of one thousand copies. Hastings House hardcover books
