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1924151436New York: George H. Doran Company 1924. First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo original publisher's red cloth illustrated with tipped in plates. Association copy inscribed by the author to fellow writer James Joyce on the front free endpaper "James Joyce with the writers compliments Joseph Collins." The recipient James Joyce was an Irish modernist writer whose novel Ulysses 1922 is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literature. Set in Dublin over the course of a single day the novel employs innovative narrative techniques—most notably stream of consciousness—to explore the inner lives of its characters while drawing structural parallels to Homer’s Odyssey. Joseph Collins was the first person to review Ulysses for the New York Times after Joyce lent Collins the Little Review installments of Ulysses. Collins groaned to Nutting the next day "I have in my files writing by the insane just as good as this" and gave a medical explanation of the deterioration of the artist's brain. Later on however he began to think better of the book. Joyce even had Molly Bloom memorialize Collins's manner in Ulysses: "Floey made me go to that dry old stick Dr Collins for womens diseases on Pembroke road. I wouldn't trust him too far to give me chloroform or God knows what else still I liked him when he sat down to write." Richard Ellman James Joyce page 516. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association. Dr. Joseph Collins 1866–1950 was an American neurologist author literary critic and medical educator known for his contributions to the study of nervous and mental disorders in the early twentieth century. A graduate of New York University Collins served as a professor of neurology and was actively involved in clinical practice and medical writing producing works that addressed both specialized neurological topics and broader issues of health and psychology. In addition to his scientific publications he wrote essays and books aimed at general audiences often exploring the relationship between mind and body as well as the social implications of medical knowledge. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1939140947977London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine yellow topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to fly-leaf and final page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial toning to spine. Housed in a custom clamshell case black cloth over quarter black morocco titled in gilt. <p>A beautiful copy of Joyce's famously complex and linguistically innovative novel scarce in this condition. One of an edition of 3400 copies of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. Slocum A48. Faber and Faber unknown
1936018988New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened. Light soiling mostly to the rear; spine darkened. Near Fine. Small octavo 4-1/2" x 6-5/8" in publisher's cream-white boards spine lettered in blue front cover stamped in blue with floral ornaments. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. Copy #576 of 800 numbered copies. A Presentation copy with Joyce's engraved visiting-card INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso in green ink: "Avec mes meilleures/voeux pour Noël et/la Nouvelle Année. Paris '37 James Joyce." On the recto Joyce has scored through his name in green ink and there is a green ink blot in the upper left corner. <br/><br/> The Black Sun Press hardcover
1928169217New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Anna was Livia is Plurabelle's to be First edition signed limited issue number 134 of 800 copies signed by the author preceding the British edition by two years. Anna Livia Plurabelle is an early published chapter from Joyce's famous "work in progress" that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt spine and front cover decorated in gilt borders to covers in blind top edge gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Bookplate and ink ownership signature of one Dennis Hartman to front pastedown corresponding offsetting to front free endpaper. Spine ends lightly bumped a few tiny marks to cloth slight crease to preliminary blank. A near-fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon A32. hardcover
164342Margate: Counter Editions. 2019. Edition of 125 initialled dated and numbered on a label to lower right verso by Pensato. 2 colour lithograph on Somerset Tub Sized Satin White 410 gsm paper. Sheet size: 60 x 76 cm. Framed size: 69.8 x 85.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a handmade black wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing. unknown
1987302463New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co 1987. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. Folded loose sheets laid into Japanese handmade silk over boards clamshell box with lightning bolt down upper cover mirror paper interiors by the Thistle Bindery. Internally fine some minor toning to spine and portions of the box else fine. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. The Weil - Van Dyke Epiphanies. A stunning visual meditation upon the texts of Joyce's epiphanies executed in original etchings watercolors collages and hand-cut creations printed on various Japanese papers and on Moulin du Gue paper. The collages were executed by Vincent Fitzgerald and Zahra Partovi; the etchings were printed by Van Dyke and Maria Luisa Rojo at the Printmaking Workshop and the lithographs were printed by Van Dyke and Rhae Burden. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly and the letterpress printed by Dan Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text.<br/><br/>A notable production singled out for notice in several key exhibitions including selective shows by Franklin Furnace and the Boston Athenaeum. Vincent Fitzgerald & Co unknown books
302463New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co 1987. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. Folded loose sheets laid into Japanese handmade silk over boards clamshell box with lightning bolt down upper cover mirror paper interiors by the Thistle Bindery. Internally fine some minor toning to spine and portions of the box else fine. One of 50 numbered copies from a total edition of 65 including fifteen artist's proofs signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. With illustrations by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke in various media: original etchings watercolors collages and decoupage. 1 vols. Folio 38 x 32.5 cm. A stunning visual meditation upon the texts of Joyce's epiphanies executed in original etchings watercolors collages and hand-cut creations printed on various Japanese papers and on Moulin du Gue paper. The collages were executed by Vincent Fitzgerald and Zahra Partovi; the etchings were printed by Van Dyke and Maria Luisa Rojo at the Printmaking Workshop and the lithographs were printed by Van Dyke and Rhae Burden. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly and the letterpress printed by Dan Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text.<br /> <br /> A notable production singled out for notice in several key exhibitions including selective shows by Franklin Furnace and the Boston Athenaeum. Vincent Fitzgerald & Co unknown
19221263501922. Paris: John Rodker for the Egoist Press 1922. <br /> <br /> 4to 15 732 1pp. Later half black morocco gilt top backstrip richly gilt original Aegean blue printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy tastefully bound and preserving the iconic wrappers.<br /> <br /> § First UK edition number 715 of 2000 copies printed 500 were seized and burned by the U.S. customs upon arrival; with half-title and 7 pages of errata at the front. Long bookseller's note in pencil at back by John Howell-Books priced $75.<br /> <br /> Joyce's ground-breaking modernist novel was first serialized in the American journal The Little Review and was the target of the first of many censorship attempts soon after the publication of the Nausicaa episode. Despite being banned in the UK and suppressed in the US well into the 1930s the novel was recognized as a landmark in literature from its earliest reviews. <br /> <br /> "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." - T.S. Eliot.<br /> <br /> Slocum & Cahoon A18. unknown
19262605<p>First edition 8th Printing May 1926; bound by Stuart Brockman; all edges gilt. Binding in blue to match the colour of the original paper wrappers. The binding is in full blue goatskin; design applied with goatskin onlays gold tooling; lettered in gold leaf; book housed in velvet lined quarter leather box lettered in gold to spine. The design depicts two halves of a clock face which encloses the 18 steps taken during the book represented by the red dots and lines connecting. The radiating lines represent light and alternative directions in which the story could have taken.</p> Shakespeare and Company
1996UJOYLEA00sndLaura 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
19292621Paris: 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.<br /> <br /> 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
192817230JNew York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. One of 800 numbered copies signed by the author James Joyce this copy being Number 547. Octavo. Typography by Frederic Warde. Beautifully bound in a rich brown cloth with gilt-stamping to the front board and spine and with a simple classical geometric line border stamped to the front and rear boards and top edge gilt. With the Crosby Gaige colophon design of a ram standing beneath “CG†within a circle. Some minor rubbing to board edges at spine and corners very small bump to fore-edge front board a few faint tiny bits of slight foxing to preliminaries; a near fine copy. Prints what is generally considered the most famous section from work in progress of what would become Joyce’s Finnegans Wake published in 1939. This elegant volume begins with the following from Padraic Colum’s preface: “‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ is concerned with the flowing of a River. There have gone into it the things that make a people’s inheritance: landscape myth and history; there have gone into it too what is characteristic of a people: jests and fables. It is epical in its largeness of meaning and its multiplicity of interest. And to my mind James Joyce’s inventions and discoveries as an innovator in literary form is more beautifully shown in it than in any other part of his work.†Crosby Gaige hardcover
1920021432Paris 24 November 1920. Letter. Close to Fine. Small 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Joyce" to Madame Yasushi Tanaka Louise Gebhard Cann on blue paper integral with envelope which is addressed in Joyce's hand and postmarked on the verso. In full: "Dear Madam In reply to your letter I shall call on you on Sunday afternoon next as it seems to be the most convenient time for you. Sincerely yours James Joyce." Louise Gebhard Cann was a prominent writer and art critic in early 20th century France. At Ezra Pounds suggestion Cann wrote to Joyce requesting an interview with him for an article on writers in France set to appear in an upcoming issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Following publication of the "Nausicaa" episode of ULYSSES in THE LITTLE REVIEW the previous year Joyces writing was deemed obscene. This particular issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW was effectively banned in the United States and it is believed that because of the controversy the editors then decided to omit any mention of Joyce from the finished article published in the March 1921 issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Ellman JAMES JOYCE LETTERS III: 32. <br/><br/> unknown
1927RJOYULY00tpmShakespeare and Co. Samuel Roth 1927 1929. Good. Joyce James. Ulysses. Paris NY: Shakespeare and Co. Samuel Roth 1927 1929. Unauthorized 1st U.S. printing. 735pp. 8vo. Greek blue wraps and deckle edges. Book condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges creased and cracked spine and faint soiling. An elusive copy of Joyce's Ulysses. Unauthorized printed and discreetly distributed by Samuel Roth in New York City and Philidelphia six years before before Ulysses' ban would be lifted in the U.S. Although Roth had formerly published Ulysses' serially in Two Worlds Monthly these full length copies made to pass as Shakespeare and Co.'s ninth printing would ulitmately place Roth in jail. Despite its disreputation it is nevertheless held by several special collections across the U.S. and is an essential character in the history of Ulysses and banned books in 20th century America. Shakespeare and Co. [Samuel Roth] paperback
19294072<p>Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. 8 XV 1 55 3. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places. Housed in the cardboard slipcase covered with green paper and edged in silver paper to which there is some slight marking and wear to the edges. Signed on the half title by James Joyce in black ink and illustrated with Constantin Brancusi's etching Symbole de Joyce intended by the artist to capture Joyce's "sens du pousser" and described as "a portrait as abstract as the author's text". With a preface by C.K.Ogden who in the same year as the publication of Shem and Shaun arranged a recording of Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle the first published section of Work in Progress. In an interview of 1936 Joyce said "I haven't lived a normal life since 1922 when I began Work in Progress. It requires an enormous amount of concentration.Since 1922 my book has become more real to me than reality and everything has led to it". "My book" is Finnegans Wake to which during its seventeen year gestation Joyce gave the name Work in Progress. In the late 1920s Joyce published three sections of Work in Progress: Tales Told of Shem and Shaun is the second. Reviews concentrated on the Joyce's verbal brilliance while noting its limited appeal. To H.G.Wells Work in Progress was "an extraordinary experiment" but also "a dead end". Joyce was undeterred. In 1937 two years before the publication of Finnegans Wake Joyce said of "the few fragments which I have published" that they "have been enough to convince many critics that I have finally lost my mind.And perhaps it is madness to grind up words in order to extract their substance or to graft them one onto another to create crossbreeds and unknown variants to open up unsuspected possibilities for these words to marry sounds which were not usually joined together before although they were meant for one another to allow water to speak like water birds to chirp in the words of birds to liberate all sounds of rustling breaking arguing shouting cracking whistling creaking gurgling - from their servile contemptible role and to attach them to the feelers of expressions which grope for definitions of the undefined".</p> Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929 hardcover
193630022London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First Edition English Issuance First Authorized English edition one of 900 copies only printed on special Japon vellum papers probably the most beautiful First Edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall thick royal 8vo publisher’s original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and pictorial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine housed in the rare printed dustjacket lettered in black on the upper cover and on the spine and decorated with the bow in red on the spine panel. xvi 766 pp. A well preserved copy the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book the back just a bit mellowed at the tips the dustjacket with the price still intact and showing some light aging and some evidence of use or handling but whole and without major defects or substantial wear some tidying up to the verso. A pleasing survival with all aspects of a collector’s demands in good order. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST EDITION ARGUABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF FICTION OF THE 2OTH CENTURY RARE IN THE DUSTJACKET. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed in full polished linen buckram has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING EXECUTED IN GILT WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY ERIC GILL ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED MASTERS OF THE ART.<br> The typeface is extremely attractive and very readable the printing on fine paper makes the book unusually handsome and presents what is perhaps the most beautiful printing of ULYSSES ever accomplished. <br> Along with the text there are a series of appendices attached including copies of the International Protest against the unauthorized and mutilated printings of ULYSSES done especially in the United States; a copy of the injunction issued to prevent Samuel Roth from continuing his piracies of ULYSSES; a copy of Joyce’s letter to Bennet Cerf concerning the promotion legal fight and publication of ULYSSES on the author’s behalf; a copy of the decision of the US District Court which was rendered on December 6 1933 which lifted the ban on ULYSSES and a copy of the subsequent decision of the US Court of Appeals rendered in August of the following year which upheld the original decision; a copy of the forward to the first American edition and a bibliography of the works of James Joyce.<br> ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf John Dos Passos William Faulkner Samuel Beckett Malcolm Lowry and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute consciously or unconsciously to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century and he is not alone in that opinion.<br> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover
1916140940404New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First Edition. Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth lettered in dark green. Near Fine with sunning to spine and light rubbing to spine ends bookplate to front paste down light foxing to preliminary and terminal pages pages lightly toned. One of 504 copies of the first American edition which was bound up using imported sheets from the first London edition published two years earlier by Grant Richards the title page being a cancel with the Huebsch imprint. A lovely copy of this modernist cornerstone. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
193569530New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Matisse this being copy 1408 and the first illustrated edition of Joyce's monumental novel. 4to pp. iii-xv 3 363 3; 26 plates 6 soft-ground etchings printed by hand and 20 lithographic drawings made as studies for the etchings printed on thin colored papers; original brown buckram with a gold embossed design on the front cover and repeated on the spine; a fine copy in the original publisher's box lettered and decorated in brown on spine; box shows some light soiling and staining and which also shows very small cracks at the lower extremities. Small bookplate on front free endpaper. One of the most important illustrated books of the 20th century. "The text of this edition is based on that of the Odyssey Press edition second impression and is therefore the most accurate text of Ulysses that has been published in the United States" Slocum & Cahoon. As the story goes Joyce signed 250 copies but ceased in a huff when he learned that Matisse had made the illustrations based on Homer's Odyssey not his own Ulysses which was only based on Homer. Slocum & Cahoon A22; LEC Bibliography 71. Limited Editions Club unknown
193569620New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. MATISSE Henri; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUBGILBERT Stuart. GILBERT Stuart contributor. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. MATISSE Henri illustrator. Ulysses LEC. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> MATISSE Henri illustrator. JOYCE James. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: Limited Editions Club 1935.<br> <br> Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Henri Matisse this being number 956. Quarto<br> <br> 11 5/8 x 9 inches; 295 x 230 mm. xv 3 363 7 blank pp. Twenty-six plates by Matisse consisting of six etchings printed by hand and twenty lithographic drawings made as studies for the etchings printed on thin colored papers.<br> <br> Original full brown buckram embossed in gilt on front board and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge speckled bottom edge uncut. Spine gilt just a bit darkened. Front inner with hair splint but firm. Small bookseller stickers on front and rear endpapers. With the publisher's original printed slipcase. Slipcase with some minor wear along edges. Still a near fine copy.<br> <br> "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings Matisse's only use of this medium record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit if less spontaneous compositions." The Artist and the Book.<br> <br> "The text of Ulysses is printed in double columns throughout; the running title and pagination are printed in brown. The six etchings by Henri Matisse with their accompanying sketches on yellow and blue paper depict the Calypso Aeolus Cyclops Nausicaa Circe and Ithaca episodes. These six etchings were issued separately by the Print Club New York 1935 in an edition of 150 copies. The text of this edition is based on that of the Odyssey Press edition A20 second impression" Slocum and Cahoon.<br> <br> The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.<br> <br> HBS 69620.<br> <br> $6500. The Limited Editions Club unknown
193681820London:: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First edition printed in England; trade issue; No.571 of 900 copies on Japon vellum. . publisher's green buckram stamped with Homeric bow in gold; t.e.g. iin dust jacket. A fine copy in a dust jacket with slight creasing and use; uncommon in this condition. Small 4to. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
193987094London: Faber & Faber 1939. First trade edition. Hardcover. 1939 First trade edition first impression. Royal 8vo. Original red cloth ruled and lettered in silver to spine. Dust-jacket priced 25s. A very good first edition of Joyce's key work of literary modernism a hallucinatory dream-like narrative centred on the Earwicker family that weaves myth history and language into a cyclical structure. Very minor rubbing to jacket extremities but overall a very good example. Very Good Faber & Faber hardcover
1929181353Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. Who is Sylvia What is she that all our scribes commend her First edition first issue a press copy inscribed by Beach on the title page "the publisher Sylvia Beach" and with "press copy" ink-stamped on the initial blank. The first article "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce" is Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print while the wider collection is among the earliest critiques of Finnegans Wake published ten years before the novel. The French writer Andre Chamson wrote "Sylvia carried pollen like a bee. She cross-fertilized these writers She did more to link England the United States Ireland and France than four great ambassadors combined. It was not merely for the pleasure of friendship that Joyce Hemingway Bryher and so many others often took the path to Shakespeare and Company in the heart of Paris." This early critique of Joyce's final work was partially intended to raise funds for the perennially impecunious writer. Other contributors include Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. The publishers later sold sheets of this edition to Faber & Faber in London and New Directions in New York who reissued them with inserted title pages but this copy is from the original Paris issue. Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in custom orange cloth slipcase and chemise. Nicking and a couple of spots of faint toning to extremities short closed tears to spine ends chipping and toning to otherwise clean contents many leaves unopened: a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon B10. hardcover
1797AQ20001Cambridge: Printed by Benjamin Flower: for J. Deighton et al. 1797. 4 290pp 2. With a final publisher's advertisement leaf not recorded by ESTC. Contemporary dark green calf-backed marbled boards ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn loss to head of spine. Head of title page shaved sadly to remove an early ownership inscription foxed. The rare first edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended for use as a textbook. As the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' which heaps justifiable praise on the magnum opus of Adam Smith the work was designed to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763- 1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 - or the by then well-known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth-century - into a single convenient octavo volume. As Joyce himself notes in a footnote to the final page of text the developments suggested by Smith relating to alleviating the national debt by introducing the British system of taxation to 'all provinces of the empire' were superseded by events in America during the 1770s and any hope for the 'discharging of the national debt' brought even more into doubt by the 'present melancholy situation of Ireland'. ESTC locates only 11 copies in the UK and just 12 further elsewhere. ESTC T95379. First edition. 8vo. Printed by Benjamin Flower: for J. Deighton et al. hardcover
1939WRCLIT63338London: Faber and Faber 1939. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Usual tan offset from free endsheets to facing pages otherwise a fine bright copy in dust jacket and uncommon thus. First British edition trade issue published on the same day as the U.S. trade edition from Viking and the limited edition bearing Faber and Viking's joint imprint. One of a total first printing of 3400 copies of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. This copy was quite possibly utilized for review as the formal publication date '4 May 1939' is stamped on the front dust jacket flap. "If Finnegans Wake is a key book it is a key which needs a key. The Wake reminds me of the unfinished obelisk which lies on its side at Assuan yet it has passages of unearthly beauty particularly the last page and huge comic scenes" - Connolly. MODERN MOVEMENT 87. SLOCUM & CAHOON A47. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1930265666Paris: Babou & Kahane 1930. paperback. fine/near fine. Thin 4to cream colored wrappers printed in green & black glassine d.w. Paris: Babou & Kahane; N.Y.: Fountain Press 1930. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Number 55 of 100 copies printed on hand-made iridescent Japan and signed by Joyce. The glassine wrapper is minimally chipped on the spine. Fine lacking the slipcase.<br/><br/> Babou & Kahane unknown books
