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1928WRCLIT63296New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Gilt cloth t.e.g. Trace of light wear at toe of spine light neat pencil acquisition note on free endsheet dated 1929 small smudge of dulling toward lower edge of upper board otherwise a near fine copy in custom cloth-covered slipcase. First edition in book form. One of 800 numbered copies signed by the author from a total edition of 850. The first owner notes this copy was acquired when "tempted by this at Random House - succumbed!" Random House distributed a portion of the edition. SLOCUM & CAHOON A32. Crosby Gaige hardcover books
19391407517Faber and Faber Limited London 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. First published in Mcmxxxix stated on the copyright page. Book near fine fore and tail edges untrimmed slight foxing on paste-downs end papers and last page some very minor soiling on covers. Dust jacket very good some repair along top edges and rear hinge visible on inside of dj some minor soiling and minor foxing on inside of dj. Flap price 25s.net. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Faber and Faber Limited, London hardcover books
193925419London: Faber & Faber Limited 1939. Light foxing and offsetting to the endpapers small bookseller's label inside back cover spine ends lightly crimped with bottom corners gently bumped; near fine in a near fine jacket completely unrestored clipped at all edges and price-clipped with three short closed tears and a hint of edgewear still bright and unfaded. An exemplary copy of one of the least read and understood novels of the 20th century. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. First Edition. Thick octavo. First British Edition trade issue published simultaneously with the American and the British deluxe. Total printing of 3400 copies with 50 copies in sheets destroyed Slocum and Cahoon A47. London: Faber & Faber Limited unknown books
1929299582Paris: Black Sun 1929. First. paperback. fine/fine. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition.<br/><br/> Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon A-36.<br/><br/> Black Sun unknown books
1917142971London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel one of about 1000 copies. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Egoist Ltd hardcover
1929299582Paris: Black Sun 1929. Limited. paperback. fine/fine. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon A-36.<br/> <br/> Black Sun unknown
1927000759Paris: Shakespeare & Co. The 9th printing printed from the wholly new and corrected setting of type prepared for the eighth edition. Original blue wrappers bound in 3/4 leather boards and green tan and gilt paper. Green and tan designed end pages. Gilt title on spine. Gilt topstain. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 5th or later Printing. 1927. Shakespeare & Co., hardcover
193646625London:: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First edition printed in England; No. 847 of 900 copies on Japon vellum. . publisher's green buckram stamped with Homeric bow in gold; in dust jacket. Very slight browning to extremities of spine; else a fresh bright copy in a price-clipped jacket with some light wear to its extremities and some hand-soiling particularly to the spine. Uncommon in dust jacket. Small 4to. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
1925151568New York: Greenberg Publisher Inc 1925. First limited edition of this classic work inspired by King John. Octavo original half-cloth. One of 500 numbered copies this is number 8. Association copy inscribed by the author to fellow writer James Joyce on the limitations page "To James Joyce in admiration Joseph Shipley." 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. In very good condition. Joseph T. Shipley 1893–1988 was an American author literary critic and lexicographer whose career spanned several decades of influential work in both theater criticism and the study of language. He served as drama critic for The Call later The New Leader from 1918 to 1962 and extended his critical reach through radio broadcasts on New York station WEVD where his program First Nights ran from 1940 to 1982. Shipley was an early and perceptive commentator on modern drama publishing one of the first critical studies of Eugene O’Neill in 1928 and he later held leadership roles in the New York Drama Critics’ Circle including serving as president from 1952 to 1954. Although widely respected as a theater critic he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to etymology and literary reference particularly his Dictionary of World Literary Terms 1943 and his final work The Origins of English Words 1984. Over the course of his career he authored or edited 27 books and received honors such as the Townsend Harris Medal. Greenberg, Publisher, Inc hardcover
19163926New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good . A Very Good copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. <br/><br/>Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. <br/><br/>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good . B. W. Huebsch unknown books
19163926New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good . A Very Good copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. <br /> <br /> Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. <br /> <br /> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good . B. W. Huebsch unknown
1917144189London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel one of about 1000 copies. Octavo original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Egoist Ltd hardcover
1934216882New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket heavily chipped away at spine crown/heel. 2 inch closed tear at top of front panel. Reichl name printed at bottom of front panel. Random House hardcover
1941HIN2<p>FIRST ENGLISH EDITION trade issue one of 3400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of <em>Finnegans Wake</em> which were printed for Faber and Faber. Of these 2255 were bound and sold at 25 shillings 950 were destroyed by the publisher and the remaining were gratis copies. It is possible that the 950 discarded sets of sheets remained unsold because of the price which Joyce believed was too high.</p> FABER hardcover
1916JJ046New York: Huebsch 1916 First edition first printing. Publisher's blue cloth blind-stamped front cover and gilt spine. A very good copy with a slight lean to spine and wear to spine ends some light spotting to cloth and rubbing to board edge a slight mark to fore edge of pages 45-48 binding slightly cracked between pages 28 and 29 otherwise sturdy. Internally free of any writing or bookplates. Lacking the scarce original dust jacket. Overall a solid copy of the author's first novel. Slocum & Cahoon A11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's second book and first novel. With the assistance of Ezra Pound the semi-autobiographical text was first published serially in twenty-one monthly installments in the British literary magazine The Egoist from February 1914-September 1915. Readers' critical reactions and fear of obscenity laws led many British publishers to initially reject publication and it was first published in book form in America in 1916. The book which is a virtual rewrite of his abandoned novel Stephen Hero tells the story of the young artist Stephen Daedalus Joyce's fictionalized alter ego. The name alludes to both the Christian martyr Saint Stephen and the Greek mythological inventor Daedalus. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a Künstlerroman a subset of the bildungsroman genre. The novel is written in Joyce's characteristic style of free indirect speech; Joyce's writing style matures along with Daedalus' own consciousness so that the sophistication of the narrator's voice mirrors the protagonist's level of awareness. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Huebsch hardcover
1916CLL-475New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1916 In-12 de1 f.bl., (2)ff., 299pp. (verso bl.), 1 f.bl., percaline bleue de l'éditeur avec auteur et titres estampés à froid sur le premier plat et dorés au dos.
1922OCB3802<p>Ulysses. By James Joyce. First English Edition. Published in 1922. Printed in Paris France. "Published for the Egoist Press London by John Rodker Paris". October 1922. Quarto rebound in later morocco gilt tooling fillet dentelle and armorial at both front and rear boards. Some toning and light surface soiling to title bound without the half title and the rare errata often missing a facsimile of the errata is however laid in at rear. Some wear at edges of spine bit of loss at head. One of 2000 copies.</p><p>First English Edition printed in France number 245 of of 2000 numbered copies on handmade paper. As is noted on the verso of the limitation page 'Ulysses' was first published by Shakespeare and Company of Paris in February 1922 in an edition limited to just 1000 copies. Within a month of the publication this first printing was practically sold out; eight months after the initial printing October 1922 a second printing the first English edition appeared.</p><p>This edition is actually rarer than the limitation statement would suggest. In a letter from Harriet Shaw Weaver dated February 25 1947 the following account is recorded: "A good number of copies sent by ordinary book post to the U.S.A. got through to their various destinations but some time between October 1922 when the Egoist edition was published and December the U.S.A. censorship authorities evidently became suspicious; copies were held up and accumulated at the U.S.A. post offices until finally 400-500 copies were confiscated and burnt." Slocum A18.</p> John Rodker for Egoist Press hardcover
19162940New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge tender but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. <br/><br/>Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. <br/><br/>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One innovation is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good. B. W. Huebsch unknown books
1989WRCLIT52163New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co. 1989. Small folio 35.5 x 25 cm. Linen over boards with stiff-handmade paper endleaves. The crown of the spine is marred by three pin- pick size holes in the surface cloth and several smaller dents evidently the work of a cat otherwise fine. One of fifty numbered copies with the text and illustrations printed on handmade Dieu Donné and special Japanese papers by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress signed and numbered by the artist below the portrait of Joyce facing the colophon. As a follow-up to her collaborative edition of Joyce's EPIPHANIES of 1987 Weil here illustrates Joyce's text in a variety of media including etchings stencil cuttings original watercolors etc. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly the etchings printed by Marjorie Van Dyke and the collages by Zahra Partovi. Vincent FitzGerald & Co. hardcover books
19162940New York: B. W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. <br /> <br /> Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church school system family and national politics. Feeling trapped Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. <br /> <br /> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One innovation is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel which starts in Stephen's infancy is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good. B. W. Huebsch unknown
19396104London: Faber and Faber 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded minor chips and tears mostly a the extremities and some smudges to the jacket panels. <br /> <br /> Among the most influential and complex Modernist works Finnegans Wake "blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive of the novel inspired by the 18th century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico is that history is cyclical.the novel's plot is nearly as complex as the linguistic tactics deployed by Joyce who combined a number of languages and utilized complex sonic implications to create an atmosphere of wordplay and hidden meaning throughout the entirety of Finnegans Wake" Britannica. A natural progression from his earlier masterpiece Ulysses Finnegans Wake shows Joyce pressing his ability to weave together numerous languages cultural mythologies and national literatures to defy boundaries and binaries we so often lean on to understand the world. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Faber and Faber unknown
193046676Paris:: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1930. First edition; Copy 526 of 600 copies on pure linen Vidalon Royal. publisher's printed stiff wrappers in glassine and publisher's slipcase. . Very slight browning to glassine; but a near fine copy in a very nice slipcase with the slightest of wear to edges. Much nicer than usually seen. Small folio. Prospectus laid in. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, unknown
1932132480London and New York: Various publishers 1932-1998. Collection of several editions of Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses. The collection is comprised of a first American edition of Ulysses New York: Random House 1934; early printing of the Unlimited edition of Ulysses London: The Bodley Head 1949; the Odyssey Press edition of Ulysses in two volumes Hamburg: The Odyssey Press 1932; early printing of the New edition of Ulysses in a dust jacket London: The Bodley Head 1967; facsimile edition of the first edition of Ulysses housed in a custom full buckram box Shelton: The First Edition Library n.d.; facsimile edition of the second edition of Ulysses London: The Folio Society 1998; a first American edition of Finnegans Wake New York: The Viking Press 1939; and two others. Each volume is in near fine to fine condition. A unique set illustrating the evolution of this great literary work. James Joyce's Ulysses was first published by Shakespeare and Company Paris in February 1922. Between 1922 and 1925 the text was reprinted six times. In May 1926 Shakespeare and Company issued a second edition mistakenly called the eighth printing in which the type of the text was entirely reset and Joyce's corrections from the previous printings were absorbed. Since its publication the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars". The novel's stream of consciousness technique careful structuring and experimental prose—replete with puns parodies and allusions—as well as its rich characterization and broad humor have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history. Various publishers hardcover
1925140948862Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1925. Early Reprint. Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. 736 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps lettered in white. Housed in a custom teal blue cloth clamshell case with green morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning and wear to the notoriously fragile wraps. Light creasing to spine light chipping to ends to ends small closed tear to rear joint at foot with tiny abrasion to rear cover. Light corner creases from prelims to 112 p. A nicer than usually found copy of Joyce's epic modern novel. Shakespeare and Company unknown
191435George H. Doran 1914. Hardcover. Good With Dust Jacket <br />12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Early printing with 'Printed in the United States of America' on copyright page. <br /><br />This is a RARE FIND to acquire such a fine book with the Original Dust Jacket In place. Doubleday Doran and Company Inc. hardcover