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193030424Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1930. Quarto. 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Title and text printed in black and green. Signed by Joyce on the limitation leaf. Printed wrappers original glassine. Small area of loss at lower spine minor tear and losses to glassine along spine. Publisher's green slipcase split at edges with some losses as usual.<br/> <br/>First edition deluxe issue: one of 100 signed copies.<br/> <br/>One of one hundred numbered copies on "Imperial hand- made iridescent Japan" signed by the author from a total edition of 685 copies.<br/> <br/>Slocum & Cahoon A41. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane unknown books
1939014569London/New York: Faber & Faber/Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Touch of wear to the heel of the spine which is mildly sunned. Lacking the original slipcase but with a custom-made slipcase in its place. Near Fine in a Fine custom slipcase. Original red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Copy #222 of 425 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. One of the most important books of modern English fiction if not one of the more readable. "Joyce insisted that each word each sentence had several meanings and that the 'ideal lecteur' should devote his lifetime to it like the Koran" Connolly THE MODERN MOVEMENT 81; "The greatest failure in literature" Burgess 99 NOVELS: THE BEST IN ENGLISH SINCE 1939 page 25. <br/><br/> Faber & Faber/Viking Press hardcover
192713715Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Ninth printing. Large octavo; publisher's "Greek flag blue" wrappers lettered in white housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt inner cloth chemise; 735pp. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; spine creases with slight lean else sound. Overall Very Good. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." <br /> <br /> The bound in leaf inserted by an unknown previous party coincides with Joyce living in Paris while Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." <br /> <br /> Slocum 17. Shakespeare and Company unknown
19391403209Faber and Faber London 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Faber & Faber UK 1939. Signed Limited Numbered. One of 425 Limited edition copies. Signed by James Joyce. Pages are clean; text is unmarked binding is tight and square. Light wear to cloth boards at spine ends and edges. Text block is clean. Hard cover in original salmon cloth with titles on spine in gilt top edge gilt fore edge and foot of handmade paper untrimmed. Housed in an expertly restored yellow slipcase inside a custom slipcase. Faber and Faber, London hardcover books
1928140948801New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. #472 of 800 copies signed by James Joyce on the copyright page. A presentation copy with Sylvia Beach's handwritten note "from Mr. James Joyce" on her Shakespeare and Company stationary mounted to front pastedown. xviv 1 61 pp. printed on watermarked wove paper. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind and gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and faint staining around tail of spine. Contents lightly toned with occasional foxing more pronounced on endpapers and evidence of bookseller ticket removal to back pastedown. Slocum & Cahoon 32.<br /> <br /> <br /> <p>The first separate publication of this fragment of Finnegans Wake which was published in installments over seventeen years before being issued as a complete book in 1939. Sylvia Beach the owner of the legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. had published Ulysses in 1922 and continued to foster Joyce's career during the following decade. She wrote in her 1959 memoir that Anna Livia Plurabelle gave her some trouble. She and Joyce tried to get the piece published in various literary periodicals with limited success. The Calendar accepted it only to be thwarted by its own printers who refused to set up a passage they found obscene. The printers at Princeton University Press which printed this luxurious limited edition for the New York bon vivant Crosby Gaige apparently had no such qualms. Crosby Gaige unknown
19391403209Faber and Faber London 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Faber & Faber UK 1939. Signed Limited Numbered. One of 425 Limited edition copies. Signed by James Joyce. Pages are clean; text is unmarked binding is tight and square. Light wear to cloth boards at spine ends and edges. Text block is clean. Hard cover in original salmon cloth with titles on spine in gilt top edge gilt fore edge and foot of handmade paper untrimmed. Housed in an expertly restored yellow slipcase inside a custom slipcase. Faber and Faber, London hardcover
19391402430London: Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press 1939. Limited Edition #122/425. Hardcover. Octavo 628 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's brick red buckram spine stamped in gilt. Uncut and unopened as issued. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase stamped "Made in England" inside of the case. With very light edgewear. A few preliminary leaves and final leaves apparently reinforced with cloth tape a bit over-opened. Slipcase sturdy but with some wear and staining cloth beginning to detach in one corner. MC Consignment. Shelved case 2. References: Slocum & Cahoon A49. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> A letter from the Viking Press September 9 1947 states: "We also brought out and sold a limited edition of 310 copies the sheets of which were imported from the English publisher Faber & Faber. Our limited edition is identical with that of the British publisher and bears both imprints. The covers for the limited edition were made in England but the actual binding was done in the United States." 310 copies were sent to the United States instead of the 300 noted in the statement of limitation Slocum & Cahoon. 1402430. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press hardcover
1930846031930. JOYCE James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Orig. printed wrappers and publisher's glassine in orig. green slipcase all stored in custom folding box. Paris and New York: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press 1930. First ed. Small 4to. One of 100 copies on "imperial hand-made iridescent japan" signed by Joyce this being no. 86. The second book installment of "Work in Progress" which would eventually be much revised and published in full as Finnegans Wake. This section is the introduction to the world of the main character a sleeping giant whose dream is the Wake. The slipcase with some minor wear to the edges else an unusually fine copy. unknown
1927140946444London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Good. First trade edition first printing. A fantastic association copy signed by legendary publisher Sylvia Beach with a contemporary inscription dated Paris August 18 1928 opposite rear paste-down. Bound in publisher's pale green boards faded to tan with errata slip tipped in at rear. Good with cracking at spine leaving binding very fragile cup ring to upper cover. <p>Joyce's second book of poetry a slim volume containing 13 poems. Sylvia Beach was an American ex-pat known for her iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company where she published James Joyce's Ulysses 1922 and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book Three Stories and Ten Poems 1923. While autographed copies of her book Shakespeare and Company published in 1960 are often available on the market Joyce titles with Beach's contemporaneous inscriptions from the heyday of the Lost Generation era are extremely uncommon and desirable. A fragile yet very important copy. Shakespeare and Company unknown
19395068London: Faber & Faber 1939. First signed limited edition number 251 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. Octavo original red cloth titles to spine in gilt top edge gilt original publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. In fine condition with the publishers slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A superior example. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1939137512London: Faber & Faber 1939. First signed limited edition number 115 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. Large octavo original red cloth titles to spine in gilt top edge gilt original publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. In near fine condition. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faber & Faber hardcover
1929140948690Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition limited issue #21 of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by James Joyce on the half-title page. xv 1 55 2 pp. printed in red and black illustrated with full page "Portrait of the Author" by C. Brancusi tissue guard laid in. Bound in publisher's wraps with white overwraps protected by glassine. Near Fine with very minor tears to remarkably well-preserved glassine light foxing and sunning to overwraps and light toning to contents. In the original slipcase variant with green suede paper over silver paper moderately rubbed and toned. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase red cloth over quarter brown morocco titled in gilt with light sunning to spine very light wear and inked number to interior of chemise. Slocum 36.<br /> <br /> <p>A rare signed edition of three excerpts from what would later be published as Finnegan's Wake. The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi created a symbolic portrait of the author as a spiral explaining: “Joyce is like that: he departs from one point and you’ll never meet him again.â€. The Black Sun Press unknown
1927COLLECTI007490IPARIS: SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY. NEAR FINE. PUB 1929 1927. FIRST AMERICAN. SLOCUM/CAHOON #19 /This is a pirated edition that used the legitimate 9th Shakespeare printing of May 1927 / . This is the true First American Edition unauthorized of 1929. This pirated edition of the 9th Shakespeare And Company ULYSSES was printed by Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger 230 West 17th St. New York for Samuel and Max Roth. Of the 2000 -3000 copies printed many copies of this piracy were seized by "The Society for the Suppression of Vice" on October 5 1929. One of these pirated copies sent by Joyce to Bennett A. Cerf of Random House was used in setting up the first authorized American Edition of "ULYSSES". Blue cloth covered boards with "ULYSSES / JOYCE" in gilt on spine. The blue printed wrapped sans flaps as called for by Slocum. book was bound into this case binding only loosing the original unprinted spine of the wraps. A beautiful clean and tight copy. . SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY hardcover
1930ST15753bParis: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE. No. 24 OF 100 COPIES ON IRIDESCENT HANDMADE JAPON SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies. 283 x 191 mm. 11 1/8 x 7 1/2". 72 2 pp. <br/> Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine leaves untrimmed and UNOPENED IN THE ORIGINAL GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPPER. The whole in the original slightly rubbed three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper. Without the original slipcase. Title printed in green and black initials and headlines printed in green. Inside front cover of folder with bookplate of John Kobler see below. Slocum & Cahoon A-41. Corners just slightly bumped one small faint brown spot to tissue cover but AN OUTSTANDING COPY the very fragile and always-torn glassine entirely intact and the text with no signs of use most of it never having seen the light of day.<br/> <br/> This luxury version of an excerpt from "Finnegans Wake" is printed on especially pleasing handmade paper that glows like a pearl. In his book review for the New York Times 11 January 1931 Herbert Matthews says this fragment is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics which is not without its profit and amusement." However he admits "after an honest and patient effort backed by a previous reading of all of Mr. Joyce's work 'Haveth Childers Everywhere' still remained absolutely incomprehensible" and he expresses concern that "Mr. Joyce has gone a little further on the path he is hewing for himself toward what seems to be complete linguistic chaos." Perhap our previous owner found it equally rough going for this copy has obviously never been read. That owner could well have been the prolific biographer John Kobler 1910-2000 who wrote biographies of among others Al Capone John Hunter and John Barrymore and who contributed regularly to the New Yorker Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Fountain Press unknown
193912362FINNEGANS WAKE Faber & Faber 1939 first edition some faint grey specks along the spine else a tight vg copy. Of 425 specially bound copies this is 1/125 copies of the English issue SIGNED by the author. Among the most controversial and important 20th century works of literature. Faber & Faber unknown
192943637Paris.: The Black Sun Press. 1929. Original publisher's cream wrappers with printing in red and black to upper cover and spine monochrome 'black sun' vignette to rear wrapper original glassine wrapper. 4to. 212 x 168 mm. Half-title title printed in red and black contents leaf leaf with monochrome etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constanin Brancusi signed in the plate preface by C. K. Ogden pp. xv The Mookse and the Gripes pp. 1 - 16 The Muddest Thick that was Ever Heard Dump with mathematical diagram on pg. 32 pp. 17 - 43 The Ondt and the Gracehoper pp. 45 - 55 justification leaf with achevé d'imprimer June 1929. Printed 21 lines per page in hand-set Caslon headlines and initials printed in red throughout. Harry Marks' nominatif copy on Japon - conforming to the édition de tête - signed by Joyce.From the edition limited to 650 copies with this nominatif copy conforming to the edition de tête of 50 hors commerce on Japanese Vellum signed by Joyce in black ink to the half-title; this copy was printed for Harry F. Marks: 'This copy is for / Harry F. Marks' see the justification.'The entire edition is for sale at the / Bookshop of Harry F. Marks / 31 West 47 Street New York'. From the justification.Printed in Paris by Harry and Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press and with an introduction by C. K. Ogden 'Tales Told of Shem and Shaun' was offered for sale in New York at the 'Bookshop of Harry F. Marks 31 West 47 Street New York'. This was the second separately published fragment of Joyce's fabled 'Work in Progress' after 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' in 1928 although sections had been printed in periodicals as early as 1924 a work which would eventually coalesce - on May 4th 1939 after 17 years of work - into Finnegans Wake.Picasso had been the first choice to provide a frontispiece but refused on the grounds that he did not produce portraits 'sur commande' and Joyce suggested Constantin Brancusi as an alternative. Brancusi's final 'portrait' the abstract 'Symbol of James Joyce' prompted Joyce's father to remark on seeing it: 'the boy seems to have changed a good deal'.'A portrait as abstract as the author's text . '. The Artist and the Book.The Artist and the Book 32; Slocum & Cahoon A36; see Joyce by Richard Ellmann pg. 614. The Black Sun Press. unknown
192925938Paris: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach 1929. First edition. 3-194 2 p. 191 x 140 mm. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy the Danish translator of Ulysses inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach and with two letters from him to a former owner explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge light creasing on front wrapper otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box with the announcement. "Dante.Bruno. Vico.Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach unknown
192922015Paris: Shakespeare And Company 1929. First edition. One of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Our Exagmination contains brief quotations from Work In Progress including a passage concerning Swift and blindness which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The ‘Letters of Protest' are reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Also includes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print his essay on Joyce entitled "Dante Bruno Vico Joyce." The present copy belonged to Mogens Boisen the Danish translator of Ulysses and is inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach. It also includes two letters from him to a former owner explaining the circumstances whereby he was given the book. Small chip from rear wrapper front wrapper lightly creased otherwise a fine copy with two copies of the publication announcement preserved in a folding board box. 8vo original printed wrappers. Small chip from rear wrapper front wrapper lightly creased otherwise a fine copy with two copies of the publication announcement preserved in a folding board box. Shakespeare And Company unknown
1939896501939. LIMITED SIGNED FINNEGANS WAKE JOYCE James. FINNEGANS WAKE. London & New York:: Faber and Faber/Viking press 1939. First Edition limited. large octavo red buckram. Number xxx of 425 numbered copies specially printed and bound. Signed by the author of which 125 were for the U.K. and 300 for the U.S. Including a first edition of the 1945 pamphlet "Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake." One of the most anticipated books of its day a cornerstone of modern literature. A fine lovely copy in the glassine jacket and yellow slipcase which has a slight bit of soil. SLOCUM and CAHOON A.49 A53. unknown books
1901JCFA11652Dublin: Gerrard Bros. 1901. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original staple-bound pink printed wraps; pp. 8. In original mailing envelope from Michael Papantonio First Editions and Rare Books 509 Madison Ave. New York c. 1939 addressed to R. H. Pitney. One of only 85 copies printed. <br/><br/>This is the first edition of Joyce's second published work and his first appearance in a book. His first published work was a review of Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken" published in the Fortnightly Review the previous year. Joyce's essay written when he was a nineteen-year-old student at University College Dublin is an attack on the Irish Literary Theater and its founders -- Yeats Moore and Martyn. He accuses them of abandoning the high ideals of the Theater's founding and catering to popular tastes becoming "the property of the rabblement of the most belated race in Europe." Issued in "Two Essays" along with "A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question" by F. J. C. Skeffington Joyce's school friend advocating for equal university rights for women. Both essays were first rejected "refused insertion by the Censor" by St. Stephen's the newspaper of the University College Dublin at which point Joyce and Skeffington gather the 2 pounds 5 shillings necessary to have the essays printed at a local stationery shop. /// The provenance is also interesting. Michael Papantonio 1907-1978 enjoyed a long history in the rare book trade beginning at the Brick Row Bookshop at the age of seventeen. Twelve years later he opened his own shop specializing in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature and Americana. WWII interrupted his career. After his discharge from the Army Medical Corps Papantonio formed a partnership with John S. Van Eisen Kohn launching the Seven Gables Bookshop. Papantonio's expertise in English literature complemented Kohn's knowledge of American literature. Together they built an antiquarian book business recognized for the quality of its stock and the integrity of its operations. Among the private collectors who bought from Seven Gables were Robert Taylor William E. Stockhausen Clifton Waller Barrett H. Bradley Martin Gordon Ray Mary Massey Folger Library Pierpont Morgan Library Yale Harvard Columbia and Princeton. Papantonio was also an expert in early American bindings and curated a travelling exhibition of them -- the catalogue for it is still a respected reference on the subject. Papantonio was a founding member of the ABAA. Gerrard Bros. paperback books
1917463618New York: B.W. Huebsch 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing April 1917 of the American edition the first edition was published in December 1916 preceding the English edition. Octavo. 299pp. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary bookplate of Walter A. Donnelly on the front pastedown and his ownership signature on the front fly else very near fine in attractive very good or better second printing dustjacket with several old internal tape repairs mostly at the folds and not visible on the outside. The text of the second printing jacket appears to be identical to the text of the first printing although laid out slightly differently with "Second printing" overstamped in red on the front panel.<br /> <br /> Joyce's landmark first novel. Huebsch printed 1250 sets of sheets for the first edition selling 500 sets to England for the Egoist Press edition which was published later thus the true first edition in this case the American edition preceded the English was 750 copies. We are unaware of the number of copies in the second printing but it was likely to have been quite small perhaps as few as 500 copies. Although the first edition is rare in jacket we've at least seen a few jacketed copies. This is the first copy we've seen of the second printing in the appropriate jacket. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
1918144094New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition of the author's only play published simultaneously with the British edition. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "James Joyce 2 June 1923 Paris." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed. Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead" the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W.B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970 when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
1929835121929. JOYCE James. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Orig. paper covers with orig. glassine wrapper and publisher's slipcase. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. One of 100 signed copies on Japanese vellum this being no. 79. The second separately printed portion of fragments of "a work in progress" which would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Engraved portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi. Although identified in the colophon as a portrait this appears as a spiral design. According to the Morgan Library "Brancusi later explained the cryptic image to the painter Jacques Herold noting 'Joyce is like that: he departs from one point and you'll never meet him again.'" Glassine wrapper is torn at the spine slipcase toned else very good. unknown
1935140946387New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1500 signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown. Fine with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. The Limited Editions Club unknown
1922846021922. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Orig. blue wrappers in custom folding box. Paris: Published for the Egoist Press London by John Rodker 1922. One of 1000 copies this being no. 929. Nice copy of the edition known as the 1st English edition but technically second printing published under the aegis of the Egoist Press from the plates of the first edition printed in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in February 1922. This edition was published om October 1922. Misleadingly referred to as the "first English" or "first U.K. edition" because it was intended to be sold in England rather than Paris; however the first edition to be physically printed in England wasn't until that of the Bodley Head in 1936. Paper wrappers slightly worn and chipped split at hinges small stain to lower left corner of back wrapper; internally clean. Very good with the highly desirable 7pp. errata laid in. unknown
