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193933633New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; No dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth titled in gilt. First edition first printing. Tight and unmarked with a touch of corner/edge wear and some faint staining to cloth. Bookshop tag to rear endpage. The original DJ in mylar is lightly dampstained chipped edgeworn and sunned to spine with a tiny hole mid spine. Flap price $5.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 628pp pages . Viking Press hardcover
1989mon0003933253Pangloss Pr 1989-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.8000 9.4000 9.3000. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Pangloss Pr hardcover
196420411New York: Vanguard Press 1964. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 316 pages. Author's scarce first full length novel. Collectible book! Vanguard Press hardcover
1939642New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American Edition First Printing Published Simultaneously w/ 1st UK. Publisher's Black Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good/Good. A Very Good or Better Book in a Good Dust Jacket Unclipped $5.00. Book is moderately shelf worn to extremities. Top stain is almost entirely faded text block is otherwise toned and lightly soiled. Paste downs and endpapers are foxed. Text is unmarked but many pages show soiling from thumbing. Spine pulled at crown. Binding is tight and square. Dust Jacket is generally shelf worn with rubbing causing several small chips and losses wrinkles and a few small closed tears. Spine completely sunned jacket otherwise toned and somewhat soiled. Hardcover. Large Octavo. iii 3 4-628pp. The Viking Press unknown
1968000196Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins 1968 The history of Newlands House in Cape Town South Africa. The front jacket flap reads: "Hardly junior to the historic settlement at the Cape itself are the famous Nieuwelande founded by Willem Adriaan van der Stel and the manor house of Newlands built in 1751 by the Dutch Governor Ryk van Tulbagh. On this property and through the halls of Newlands House marched the whole history of South Africa for nearly three hundred years. The pageant of its personages and events has been traced by the present chatelaine of the historic mansion Joyce New ton Thompson first woman Mayor of Cape Town author of the definitive biography of Gwelo Goodman and other works and herself a lifelong public figure. In spanning a great sweep in time and circumstance Mrs. New ton Thompson has recreated the ambience of each period with a mass of vivid detail and fascinating anecdote. She has peopled her pages with the famous characters who lived in Newlands House or came as guests or stayed as visitors." Black-and-white photographs throughout and illustrations too. 161 pages including an index. ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: About 5¾" Wide - 8¾" Tall Howard B. Timmins hardcover
193723924<p>London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1937. 1st Trade Edition. leather. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. The first trade edition of Ulysses Bodley Head 1937 here in a custom full-leather art binding by Karen McGuire bound at this bookseller's request; text reproduced by photo-offset from the 1936 ed. includes list of previous editions up to 1936 and appendices relating to the banning of Ulysses the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth and list of writers and other notables who signed a petition against Roth and a Joyce Bibliography 18 titles; bound in new full green leather with gilt borders to front and rear boards gilt titling to spine and with Bow motif after Eric Gill's original design in maroon inlay and gilt details; new headbands and endpapers; some foxing and mild creases to prelims minor stains to text block with mild bleeding to edges of some pages original green topstain faded o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION.</p> John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
193258343Hamburg-Paris-Bologna: The Odyssey Press 1932. Brossura wrappers. Ottimo Fine. ''The present edition may be considered as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert''. Edizione definitiva rivista su richiesta dello stesso Joyce da <strong>Stuart Gilbert</strong>. Opera in <strong>2 volumi</strong>. 16mo. pp. 792. Ottimo Fine. Quarta edizione 4th Edition. The Odyssey Press, unknown
1989x-0810344580Gale / Cengage Learning 1989. Hardcover. New. 400 pages. 11.50x9.00x1.00 inches. Gale / Cengage Learning hardcover
1992x-0810353490Gale / Cengage Learning 1992. Hardcover. New. 11.25x8.75x1.00 inches. Gale / Cengage Learning hardcover
1990x-0810345110Gale / Cengage Learning 1990. Hardcover. New. 400 pages. 11.50x9.00x1.75 inches. Gale / Cengage Learning hardcover
1950323229n.p.: n.p. 1950. 214pp. 19pp. laid-in 8pp. autograph notes. 1 vols. 4to. Standard B&P cloth-covered three-ring binder some soiling quite good. Pages starting to yellow and some pages towards the rear tearing at binding holes. 214pp. 19pp. laid-in 8pp. autograph notes. 1 vols. 4to. Portions of Joyce's book are typed out word for word nine lines per page with five blank lines separating each line of text. The space below each line is used for word by word elaboration for example some of the words in the first page alone:<br /> "riverrun": river runs Liffey rive vers Fr. un<br /> "Armorica": Brittany love Fr. America armor<br /> "isthmus": =neck G ist muss he is he must<br /> <br /> Pages numbered 13-84 correspond to the opening roughly two-thirds of Book 1 Chapter 1. There are 19pp. of duplicate pages out of the section loosely inserted with more elaboration. Pages 595-683 correspond to the Mookes and the Gripes section of Book 1 Chapter 6. Pages 853-864 corresponds to the end of Book 1 Chapter 8 the Anna Livia Plurabelle section. Pages 1237-1256 correspond to Book 2 Chapter 3 the Mullingar Inn section. Pages 2373-2393 correspond to the opening of Book 4 Chapter 1 the final chapter of the book. n.p. unknown
1926345989New York / Birmingham England: J. Fischer & Bro 1926. First edition Low B No. 5774 issue. 4 pp. 4to. Unbound folio wrappers with small chip at lower corner circa one-quarter inch in blank margin of corner only former ownership in black ink on top right original seller's stamp at lower right rear cover has one small tear with a small ink blot at upper blank margin toning at upper fore-edge else a very good copy. First edition Low B No. 5774 issue. 4 pp. 4to. A scarce early James Joyce sheet music. OCLC lists a single holding British Library. J. Fischer & Bro unknown
1910012561New York: Moods Publishing 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn some typical edgewear. Front hinge cracked; paper on spine largely lacking; contents Very Good. Full parchment lettered in gilt. Copy #16 of only 50 autographed copies of a total edition of 500. This copy SIGNED by the editor Edwin Markham and 22 contributors including Louis Untermeyer and Joyce Kilmer a very scarce autograph as he was killed in World War I. This anthology predates both Kilmer's and Untermeyer's first books. <br/><br/> Moods Publishing hardcover
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].
1944371012London: Michael Joseph 1944. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brick cloth stamped in silver. Fine in very good plus dust jacket tiny chip at foot of spine panel two short closed tears in front panel. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The great wartime novel by Joyce Carey a dark comedy featuring the adventures of artist Gulley Jimson. Filmed in 1978 with Alec Guiness and Kay Walsh. Michael Joseph unknown
1985108769<p>Minneapolis:: Word Weavers. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. 0961560509 . Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout. First edition paperback. Light shelf wear small corner crease to rear cover else very good in oversize pictorial wraps.; 181 pages .</p> Word Weavers, paperback
1926mon0003683723Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. . 8th printing May 1926 type re-set and corrected. Contemporary hardcover binding with original wraps bound-in. Blue cloth cover with morocco title label and gilt on the spine slight wear and rubbing. Pages lightly tanned and clean binding square and tight. Paris: Shakespeare & Co. hardcover
192825779Paris: Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach 1928. First edition. Paperback. Good. Printed wrappers. Small paperbound octavo. 195 pp. With "Made In Great Britain" rubberstamped on the title page. Includes extracts from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Contributions by Samuel Beckett his first book appearance as well as Robert Sage William Carlos Williams Stuart Gilbert and others. A fragile book printed on this paper this copy suffers from notable chipping along the right hand-side of the front cover paper loss at top inch or so of spine and smaller chips to first blank endpaper and rear cover. Good overall condition of an uncommon Joyce and Beckett title. Book needs to be handled with care. Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach paperback books
192719003Paris: Shakespeare and Co. May & June 1927. Book. Fine. Full Leather. 12mo. Two issued bound together by Bayntun in full tan calf with gilt frames ornate gilt spine panels with gilt-stamped title on a black morocco label gilt dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Pp. 185 5 adverts; 183 6 adverts 2 double-sided black & white plates in No. 2 and also in No. 3. Bound without the original wrappers and without the half-title to No. 3 pages tanned as usual. Joints rubbed outer corner of No. 3 title-page missing with loss to the year professionally repaired. A beautifully bound handsome copy of two early issues of this important literary review produced in Paris in the twenties. Sylvia Beach in her book "Shakespeare and Company talks of 'transition': "All the best Anglo-Saxon and European work of the period appeared in it much of it for the first time. Of all the reviews I came in contact with 'transition' was the most vital the longest-lived and the review that I felt was most intelligently devoted to the interests of new writing." Contributors include: James Joyce Gottfried Benn Elliot Paul Rainer Maria Rilke Kay Boyle William Carlos Williams Gertrude Stein Morley Callaghan Man Ray Max Ernst Pavel Tchelitcheff Laura Riding. Shakespeare and Co., May & June Hardcover
1984227139Grasse France Prometheus Press 1984. 1984. First edition thus. 12mo. Tipped-in Original watercolor illustration by Frederic Prokosch. Original stiff green wrappers upper wrapper with holograph paper label gold silk tie. Clear plastic dust jacket. Fine. No other signatures or bookplates. Copy "beta" of 5 handwritten copies in red and black inks on Guerimand paper printed illustrated and signed in blue ink by Prokosch on the limitation page. Signed by Illustrators. Soft cover. Fine. Grasse [France] Prometheus Press, 1984. paperback books
1984227140Grasse France Prometheus Press 1984. 1984. First edition thus. 12mo. Tipped-in Original watercolor illustration by Frederic Prokosch. Original stiff green wrappers upper wrapper with holograph paper label gold silk tie. Clear plastic dust jacket. Fine. No other signatures or bookplates. Copy "delta" of 5 handwritten copies in red and black inks on Guerimand paper printed illustrated and signed in blue ink by Prokosch on the limitation page. Signed by Illustrators. Soft cover. Fine. Grasse [France] Prometheus Press, 1984. paperback books
1984227141Grasse France Prometheus Press 1984. 1984. First edition thus. 12mo. Tipped-in Original watercolor illustration by Frederic Prokosch. Original stiff green wrappers upper wrapper with holograph paper label gold silk tie. Clear plastic dust jacket. Fine. No other signatures or bookplates. Copy "beta" of 5 handwritten copies in red and black inks on Guerimand paper printed illustrated and signed in blue ink by Prokosch on the limitation page. Signed by Illustrators. Soft cover. Fine. Grasse [France] Prometheus Press, 1984. paperback books
1927WRCLIT69258Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. 16mo. Printed pale green boards. Errata slip. Boards sunned minor wear to backstrip but no cracking; a very good copy. First edition trade issue. There were also thirteen copies on handmade paper. The still common suggestion that the printer Herbert Clarke was in fact Harry Crosby is demonstrably false. Clarke was a Paris based printer of English language texts while Crosby was still in knickers. SLOCUM & CAHOON A24. Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
1927005621Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Ninth Printing 1927. Handsomely rebound without the original wrappers in dark brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Near Fine scant rubbing to cloth at the tips a very few spots of foxing to end pages. Originally published by Shakespeare in February 1922. The Eighth Printing was published in 1926 when the type was entirely re-set to correct the legion of typographic errors in the harried first printing that had carried through all the previous printings thus basically making the 8th printing the 2nd Shakespeare edition and the 9th its 2nd printing. technically the Egoist Press 2nd Printing was the true 2nd Edition. Regardless of the tortuous publication history one of the classic works in literature. . Ninth Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shakespeare and Company Hardcover books
1934JC10701New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xvii 768. Cloth a little dust-soiled; spine somewhat tanned; spine tips and corners gently rubbed. Dust jacket lightly chipped and torn along the edges; front flap detached but appears whole under mylar; not price-clipped $3.50. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books