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37462Riverside CA: Bo Press Miniature Books n.d. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. A charming miniature book from this well-known private press. Pat Sweet is noted for her many and varied miniature books and objects. This poem is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce 1836-1883 a Limerick-born poet. The poem first published in 1861 tells the story of an Irish rebel from County Wexford who leaves his lover behind to help fight against British colonial rule. The growth of the barley crop every year in the spring is said to symbolize Irish resistance to British oppression. <br /> <br /> "I sat within a valley green<br /> I sat there with my true love<br /> My sad heart strove the two between<br /> The old love and the new love -<br /> The old for her the new that made<br /> Me think of Ireland dearly<br /> While soft the wind blew down the glade<br /> And shook the golden barley."<br /> <br /> With several illustrations of barley. Printed and bound in Mohawk Superfine paper with a white dust jacket of the same paper. In fine condition. Measures 2 x 3 inches. Unpaginated 34 pages. MINIAT/091323. Bo Press Miniature Books hardcover
1983017458Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Small tear at the bottom of the front cover; slight strip of sunning to the front edge. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in tall 10-3/4" printed green wraps. First Prize went to Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing." Publication date and price in ink on the front cover. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc. paperback
1988169837London: Jonathan Cape 1988. Hardcover. First UK Edition.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in a Very Good plus lightly rubbed dust jacket. Jonathan Cape unknown
193068085Paris and New York: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press 1930. First edition limited. Paperback. Good. 72pp. Small quarto 28.5 cm Printed white wrappers. Text printed in green and black. A number of magazine clippings are mounted to the recto and verso of the front flyleaf. The text block cracked at the half title however it is still solid. There is a previous owner's name on front flyleaf. In the glassine wrapper which is lightly soiled and prominently torn and chipped at the spine. Lacking the slipcase. An excerpt from what would become Finnegans Wake Joyce's masterpiece.<br /> <br /> Copy number 254 of 500 copies on handmade pure linen Vidalon Royal specially manufactured for this edition nos. 101 to 600 from a total edition of 685. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press paperback
1980194499New London Press 1980. First Edition. Pamphlet. 33 copies. Interview with the American author. One of 250 signed and numbered copies First edition 'first printing'. A fine copy in stapled wrappers paperback. Signed by the author on the limitation page. This copy is unnumbered.<br> New London Press unknown
199545876Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. Very Good. Chicago IL: Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing 1995. First Edition. Quarto 25cm; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 168pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit rubbed and worn with long crease across upper cover contents clean and sound. Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by Brooks on title page. <br /> <br /> Inaugural issue of this literary journal which ran from 1995 through 2004. Chicago State University / Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing unknown
1973100668<p>Vancouver B.C.: Women's Wing Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre 1973. 1973. Very good. - Quarto 10-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide. Unbound sheets. A series consisting of a title leaf seven 4-page brochures including one with a broadsheet insert followed by a colophon leaf with text describing scenarios for performance events celebrating the International Women's Year with profuse illustrations. Near fine.</p><p>RARE. WorldCat locates only one copy located at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. That copy mentions an envelope not here present.</p><p>As per the title leaf description by Catherine Hahn and Joyce Ozier of the Women's Wing Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre: "The Aerial Theatre Women's Series is a collection of performance pieces using balloons and/or kites." "Over the past three years the Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre has developed aerial scenarios based on themes ranging from the destruction of the environment to mental patient's rights. The form has proven to be of value in calling attention to issues of concern." "These scenarios are intended to be adapted for your own purposes. Expand on them change them think of more." "Perform them where people naturally congregate; take them to parks beaches downtown plazas rooftops parking lots harbours & courthouse lawns." "The sky is a vast unused theatrical arena - explore its vastness or contain its intimacy."</p><p>The illustrated brochures consist of descriptions of a "Feminist Balloon Event" by the Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre an illustrated "D'Arcy Event" with a quotation by Frederic Rewski "Human Sexuality" with text from newspaper columns and articles "Abortion Piece for dr morgantaler" with illustrated cover leaves a double-page illustration and an inserted broasheet with a collage of newspaper columns abour Dr Morgantaler "Women's Responsibility" with illustrations of women & men flying kltes "Out From Under" with illustrations of female cut outs attached to flying balloons and "Tokenism" with charts of the percentage of women in various professions.</p><p>The colophon leaf states that "This publication has been made possible through a grant from the Secretary of State / Women's Program in recognition of International Women's Year." "Photo Credits: D'Arcy Piece - Catherine Hahn; Barbara Trantor / Covering Insert - Vancouver Sun / Human Sexuality - Robert Cook / Women's Responsibility - Sheila Rowswell; Robert Cook / Abortion Piece - Robert Cook / Tokenism Event - Robert Cook; Sheila Rowswell / Media Event - Robert Cook / Feminist Event - Robert Cook." "Acknowledgments: Jane McDonald Christopher Knight Vivian Prince Judith Berlin Richard Nathans Flower Partington Patrick Gillespie Alison Ware Lib Spry. Orving Ozier Christine Jarvis."</p> [Vancouver, B.C.]: Women's Wing, Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre, [1973].
200360176AB2003. Jamaica / Barbados / Trinidad & Tobago University of The West Indies Press 2003. 15 cm x 22 cm. XLI 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the editor Irving Adler to Ann Malamud on endpaper. Includes an autobiographical essay on Wilson Harris and chapters such as: Melville and Harris: Poetic Imaginations Related to Their Response to the Modern World / The Evolution of Female Figures and Imagery in Wilson Harris's Novels etc. Sir Theodore Wilson Harris 24 March 1921 8 March 2018 was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry but subsequently became a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English. Wikipedia paperback
199739684Limerick City Ireland: Celtic Bookshop 1997. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xxiii 1 632; xi 3 651 1 pp. Frntsps. both vols. numerous illusts text illusts. maps. Uniformly bound in simulated red calf gilt lettrng & rulng on cvrs NF set. Facsimile edition of this very scarce work on the social and political customs of Ancient Ireland. Celtic Bookshop, unknown
RGW25804some creasing and soiling to sleeve Provenance: Purchased at auction in 1994 among the effects of Mrs Joyce Knowles the former custodian of T.E. LawrenceÕs home Clouds Hill. There was an early recording of WagnerÕs opera by the Milan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Romano Romani and produced by Columbia Records. The manner in which this plain sleeve was named is how T.E Lawrence titled his records. unknown
195624052Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1956. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's green cloth gilt-lettered spine in original glassine dust jacket; xxix1146pp. Glassine spine toned a few tiny losses at top edge of rear panel otherwise Fine. The first in a series of three "Censuses" by the Joyce scholar. Northwestern University Press unknown
19441001228New York: Harcourt Brace 1944 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good partially browned dust jacket. Harcourt, Brace, hardcover
197638304Cutchogue: Bucaneer Books 1976. First printing of this reissue. 297 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket as issued. One of 350 copies. Cutchogue: Bucaneer Books hardcover
196244016Unterengstringen & 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
192981868Norfolk Connecticut:: New Directions 1929. First American edition from the French sheets. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. The cloth is a little faded at the spine; clean tight and sound in a very good jacket with a slightly darkened backstrip and a few tiny chips. . 12mo. New Directions, hardcover
192962685Norfolk Connecticut:: New Directions 1929. First American edition from the French sheets. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Tiny line of sunning at top and bottom of spine; otherwise a fine copy in a bright jacket with a little rubbing and slight use to the spine. . 12mo. New Directions, hardcover
1974140940971London: Audio Arts Eo Epso Ltd. 1974. First Edition. Cassette in case with folded J-card. Vol. 1 No. 3. NM. Contents:<br /> <br /> <p>A1 –Margaret Henry "A Question Of James Joyce"<br /> <br> A2 –James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake "Anna Livia Plurabella" <br /> <br /> <br> B –Mark Hayman "Recollections Of C.K. Ogden And Others"; interviewer – William Furlong<br /> <br /> <p>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
19172100prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion 1917. In contemporary half cloth. Very nic copy. In contemporary half cloth. <br> <br /> The alphabetical directory includes the brief biographies and portraits of people accused of engaging in treasonous activities against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during WWI.<br /> <br> <br /> The list features two of the future presidents of the First Czechoslovak Republic Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 1850–1937 and Edvard BeneÅ¡ 1884–1948 as well as the author of The Good Soldier Å vejk Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek 1883–1923 among others. Besides it also includes James Joyce 1882–1941 listed as “politically suspicious†person living in Zürich. <br /> <br> <br /> Most probably Joyce was put on the list because the Tyrolean censors were unable to determine his origin and his actual occupation when monitoring his correspondence with his sister Eileen who was living in Prague at that time. Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion unknown
31026AB1975. London and other places Penguin / Picador / Oxford University Press / etc. 1975 - 1997. Octavo. More than 2000 pages. Original Hardcover / Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The price of the collection includes free international shipping per UPS Express. paperback
195828128AB1958. London Collector Records 1958. 8°. 2 pages. Original Softcover Sleeve. The Sleeve: Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The Record itself: Near Mint Condition ! Very Rare original Reading / Performance by Dominic Behan. Recorded in London with Robin Hall on the Guitar. paperback
105446Glasgow William Maclellan 1955. . First edition first impression one of 150 copies; 4to; decorations by J.D. Fergusson; publisher's green cloth device to upper board by J.D. Fergusson gilt titles to spine gilt with the dust jacket; an unusually nice copy in the very slightly faded dust jacket with a single short tear.<br /> The correct first printing of this impressively produced book. This first printing was put out and sold by subscription to some 150 people whose names are listed as an appendix. A second impression was printed in 1956 for general release. The illustrations are amongst Fergusson's best.<br /> Glasgow, William Maclellan, 1955. hardcover
195500534169Published on behalf of the subscribers by William MacLellan 1955. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exceptionally scarce deluxe version of the rare Subscriber's Edition privately issued in 1955 in an edition of approx. 150 copies. Bound in full green morocco stamped in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut some rubbing to edges. Considered by many to be the poetic high point of MacDiarmid's career. Decorations by John Duncan Fergusson. A Very Good copy with light to moderate rubbing and scuffing to the leather. Published on behalf of the subscribers by William MacLellan unknown
197878126New York:: Garland Publishing 1978. First edition. publisher's cloth. Fine. Folio. The James Joyce Archive. Garland Publishing, hardcover
1950101243New Directions Christmas 1950. No. 267 of 1500 of 1600 total copies. 24mo. Printed in Milan at the Officine Grafiche "Esperia." Publisher's wrappers in illustrated dust-jacket; light rubbing. Translated by Stanislaus Joyce. Issued as a holiday keepsake for James Laughlin and friends of New Directions. New Directions unknown
2015100084AG2015. County Mayo Paula Pohli no year c.2015. Original Linocut - Portrait of James Joyce. 33 cm x 40.5 cm. Excellent condition. Signed and limited edition No.11 of 50. unknown
