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193114008London: Seeley Service & Company 1931. First edition deluxe issue of the author's classic work. Octavo original half green morocco over cloth. Inscribed by Roger Wethered in the year of publication "Hope this will help you to beat Harry! Roger Wethered 1931." Illustrated with plates which some folding from 100 photographs. In near fine condition. "The Game of Golf Lonsdale Library Vol. IX is an outstanding symposium on the game" Murdoch 843. Seeley, Service & Company hardcover books
1934010766Random House 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Published in New York by Random House in 1934. First American Edition stated on copyright page. "REICHL" on bottom front corner of DJ. Book very good two horizontal tears on spine slightly shelf-cocked foxing on spine and black smudge on bottom edge of pages. DJ very good price-clipped chipping at ends of spine corners and along top edge of front small tears along top and bottom edges diagonal crease along length of spine and light soiling on front and rear. Comes in specially-made cloth slipcase. Random House hardcover books
19240105979Shakespeare and Company 1924. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Good. 4th Printing of James Joyce's Ulysses Published in Paris in 1924 by Shakespeare and Company. This is the 4th printing and only the second printing by Shakespeare and Company the 1st printing was by Shakespeare and Co. but the 2nd and 3rd printings were done in the UK by a different publisher the Egoist Press. One of the earliest obtainable printings after the first due to the fact that many copies of the second and third printings both by the Egoist Press were destroyed by English and American authorities. Extremely fragile and in poor condition with covers and many pages detached. Spine missing. It is rare to find such an early printing in the original wrappers that has not be hideously rebound and therefore one that looks and feels much more like the original publication. But the paper is dry and brittle and flakes easily upon handling. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1904WB15041Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. A complete run Nos 1-12 all published or this important turn of the century periodical of Irish Literature. The August 1904 issue contains James Joyce's "Song" - its first appearance Joyce's third published poem prior to its printing in Chamber Music. Other contributors include George Moore Eduard Dujardin Padraic Collum. Our issues are in remarkably nice condition protected by a cloth slipcase the leather spine has deteriorated but the box has done its job. A very attractive complete set. <br/><br/> Hodges, Figgis, & Co. paperback books
1939WRCLIT69963London: Faber and Faber 1939. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Usual tan offset from free endsheets to facing pages ownership signature of poet Donald J. Paquette on free endsheet a few stray marks to cloth else a very good copy without dust jacket. 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. This copy has the publisher's perforated stamp: "Complimentary Copy Not for Sale" in the lower margin of the terminal text leaf. One of a total first printing of 3400 copies of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. "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
192511131Paris: Shakespeare and Co 1925. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The August 1925 stated 6th printing of "Ulysses" representing still a very early edition resulting from the legendary coupling of bookseller/makeshift publisher Sylvia Beach and author James Joyce. This copy has been handsomely re-bound in half-leather by J. MacDonald of Norwalk Connecticut and bears the binder's stamp at the verso of the half-title. A solid VG copy in its half-morocco over marbled boards. Light rubbing to the panels pronounced rubbing andf flaking at the leather spine labels. Small discreet former owner name plate to the front pastedown and smaill ink signature at the half-title. A bit of spotting at the lower-edge and very light soiling to the preliminaries. Still though tight and quite well-preserved. Thick quarto 736 pgs. Also includes handsome custom-made slipcase with leather spine label and matching chemise. <br/><br/> Shakespeare and Co hardcover books
193066327First Edition James Joyce Haveth Childers Everywhere JOYCE James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1930. First edition one of 500 copies on handmade Vidalon Royal paper of which this is number 218. Small folio. Original wrappers printed in black and green glassine and publisher's green and gold slipcase. Pages unopened. Tiny chip to bottom of spine some wear and short splits to slipcase edges. Otherwise fine. Slocum and Cahoon A41. HBS 66327. $1000 Henry Babou and Jack Kahane unknown books
1930238651Paris: Babou & Kahane 1930. Limited. paperback. fine/very good. 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 128 of 500 copies printed on hand-made pure linen Vidalon Royal especially made for this edition. Fine lacking the slipcase.<br/><br/> Babou & Kahane unknown books
193465791First Edition One of One Thousand Copies JOYCE James. The Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies. A fragment from work in progress. The Hague and London: The Servire Press and Faber and Faber Ltd 1934. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper this being number 200. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm. 8 77 3 pp. Cover illustration initial letter and tail-piece designed by Lucia Joyce the authorÃs daughter. Original unprinted wrappers in the original printed dust jacket illustrated in blue silver and gray. Some minor browning to the spine and a small split at the bottom back hinge. Fragments of the original glassine laid in. Else a near fine uncut and mostly unopened copy. In the original silver slipcase with pink paper label lettered in silver. Slipcase with a bit of wear but still very good. This is a fragment from a îwork in progressî which would be published as Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon A43. HBS 65791. $1000 The Servire Press and Faber and Faber Ltd unknown books
1926107107Shakespeare and Company 1926. 5th or later Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. The eighth overall printing type reset and errors corrected so effectively a second edition. Shakespeare and Company 1926. In the original wrappers. Good only condition. Back cover missing but with the blue spine and front cover still in place. Comes in a clamshell case. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
197856589New York: Pach Brothers 1978. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. Mount slightly chipped image fine. Silver print mounted on studio's board signed on mount by the author in ink and stamp-signed by the studio. 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches image. Rare and Early Oates Portrait. A fine early portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio the Pach Brothers. Oates won the National Book Award in 1970 for her novel THEM and the photograph was probably taken around the time of her emergence as a major literary figure. An unusual image of Oates in formal pose WITHOUT THE GLASSES and rarely seen. Pach Brothers unknown books
1914008161George H. Doran Company 1914. Book. Fine. Cloth. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy Small tape repair at Crown. First Edition First Issue "Without Printed in the USA" on Copyright Page. Presentation Copy."To Amelia Josephine Burr from Joyce Kilmer November 1914." Signed in Year of Publication. Very Scarce. Excellent Copy. George H. Doran Company Hardcover books
1939109823London: Faber & Faber Limited 1939. First edition of which 3400 copies were printed 950 later destroyed. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition. A very sharp 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." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faber & Faber Limited hardcover books
1939106753New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. 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. The Viking Press hardcover books
1918WRCLIT69958London: Grant Richards 1918. Cloth and boards paper labels. Spine label a bit worn along one edge edges a bit foxed still a very good copy. First British edition published formally on the same day as the more common American edition. SLOCUM & CAHOON A14. Grant Richards hardcover books
1934WRCLIT81792The Hague & New York: The Servire Press / Gotham Book Mart 1934. Pictorial white wrappers stamped in blue and silver. Illuminated opening and closing initials. Tiny bit of tanning at toe of spine otherwise fine in clear wrapper in slightly worn slipcase the style corresponding to the US issue. First edition American issue. One of an unknown number of copies with this co- imprint from a total edition of 1000 numbered copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. The decorations are by Lucia Joyce. SLOCUM & CAHOON A43. The Servire Press / Gotham Book Mart unknown books
1926140940790Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Eighth printing and the first to have the type entirely re-set. Bound without wraps in mid-twentieth century cloth utilizing the title from original front cover to title the spine; cloth lightly lifted at seams. Very Good. Several James Joyce-related clippings tipped in to preliminary pages offsetting to rear endsheets from laid in clipping. A nice early copy of Joyce's modernist masterpiece from it's original Paris publisher. Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
1914229230New York George H. Doran Company 1914. 1914. First edition first issue. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped; light soiling; rubbing; edges reinforced with paper tape on verso. Very good. 75 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown polished leather with gilt stamped red leather spine label over brown cloth slipcase with folding fleece lined chemise. Laid in loose is a facsimile of the Autograph Manuscript of Joyce Kilmer's beloved poem "Trees" in the collection of Thomas F. Madigan with a printed Christmas letter of thanks Christmas 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, George H. Doran Company [1914]. hardcover books
1928107270Jonathan Cape 1928. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 6th impression 1928 in the very rare original dust jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Three quarter inch closed tear at top front of jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
19167771916. KILMER Joyce. THE CIRCUS AND OTHER ESSAYS. NY: Laurence J. Gomme 1916. 16mo. brown cloth & tan boards in dust jacket. First Edition earliest issue without the Mitchell Kennerley plate on the front pastedown. Kennerley eventually took over publication of the book and affixed its own publishing house plate on later copies. Signed presentation from Kilmer on the front endpaper to author and editor Ethel M. Colson: "To Ethel M. Colson from Joyce Kilmer. November 1916 New York City." Colson and Kilmer were undoubtedly acquainted with Colson being much involved with poetry particularly supporting Amy Lowell and the Imagist Movement. Very Good; little wear & soil small chip near Kilmer's name on the spine d/j. A nice copy!! $875.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1944137591London: Michael Joseph Ltd. 1944. Octavo self portrait and eight illustrations by the author cloth. First edition. The author's most famous work a comic novel of Britain during World War II. Basis for a 1958 film starring Alex Guinness and Kay Walsh. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at edges and two short closed tears in front panel. A nice copy. #137591 Michael Joseph Ltd. unknown books
197815342JNew York: Garland 1978. First Edition. A terrific facsimile of James Joyce’s surviving poetry manuscripts. Ex-library copy with ink stamps on front and rear endpapers a little abrasion on spine else a very good clean copy. Not issued in jacket. Original full green gilt-stamped cloth. 365 pages. 12 3/4 inches tall by 9 1/4 inches tall. Garland hardcover books
1927140939125London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First trade edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original pale green paper-covered boards lettered in dark green. Near Fine with toning to covers light wear to spine with minute loss at head and tail. Small previous owner bookplate to front paste down and light toning to pages. A lovely copy in much nicer condition than as normally found in. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1922Embry 182830B. W. Huebsch Inc. 1922. Third printing. Faint toning to endpaper spine slightly darkened overall a near fine and handsome copy in custom mylar cover. Gray/green cloth no dust jacket. B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1922. Third printing. hardcover books
1978376521978. STEVENSON Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. 114 4 pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts 36 woodcut initials and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. 8vo. bound in recent half morocco. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1978. One of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. Several poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. Joyce Lancaster Wilson is responsible for creating this delightful book of vivid colours and felicitous images that work on a child's level but also appeal to adult readers. The book is a combination of colourful initials vignettes and full-page plates designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and a skillfully printed text by her husband the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson in Centaur and Arrighi types. Very fine condition. unknown books
