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192962685Norfolk Connecticut:: New Directions 1929. First American edition from the French sheets. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Tiny line of sunning at top and bottom of spine; otherwise a fine copy in a bright jacket with a little rubbing and slight use to the spine. . 12mo. New Directions, hardcover
1939516873Guanajuato Gto. Mexico: Casa Salmans 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Rothwell Bouillon aged twelve; Henry Fournier aged thirteen; and Robert Fournier aged eleven. Thin octavo. 44pp. Green cloth stamped in black. Front fly neatly excised else a near fine copy. A collection of stories written in English by an eleven-year old author with illustrations by three young illustrators aged eleven through thirteen. Author's first book.Text in English. Blank eventually wrote adult fiction. Rare. No copy located by OCLC but which does locates three titles in Spanish that the author published as an adult in 1970's through 1990's. Casa Salmans hardcover
1967151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages.<br /> <br /> Set in Dublin Ireland and shot there on location. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. Continental Distributing unknown
1967151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages.<br/><br/>Set in Dublin Ireland and shot there on location. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Continental Distributing unknown books
1918WRCLIT81816Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Gilt green cloth. A fine copy in chipped glassine wrapper. First U.S. edition unauthorized. This is one of the copies with laid endpapers with the gilt stamping sharp and distinct. Slocum & Cahoon suggest that one thousand copies may have been printed. SLOCUM & CAHOON A5. The Cornhill Company hardcover books
1918WRCLIT41782Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Gilt green cloth. A lovely copy in glassine wrapper fine or better. First U.S. edition unauthorized. This is one of the copies with laid endpapers with the gilt stamping sharp and distinct. Slocum & Cahoon suggest that one thousand copies may have been printed. SLOCUM & CAHOON A5. The Cornhill Company hardcover books
19367575New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Paper over boards blue place-holder ribbon; pp. LXV 1 limitation page plus a frontispiece crayon portrait of Joyce by Augustus John reproduced by Jacomet of Paris. Number 696 from a limited first edition of 800 copies. Boards faintly rubbed and age-toned; tidy unobtrusive gift inscription on FFEP; VG overall internally bright and clean with custom mylar jacket. A lovely volume. <br/><br/> The Black Sun Press hardcover books
1930312065Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. Printed wrappers. Lacking glassine and slipcase spine heavily chipped dampstaining. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. Limited first edition. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press unknown books
192728729Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. Original green printed boards some fading as usual slight wear to spine. contents in excellent condition. Signature on front free endpaper. Errata slip present. <br/><br/> Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
193428385London: Grayson & Grayson 1934. FIRST EDITION. Foxing to preliminary leaves as well as to title page. Cloth clean and binding tight. A very good to near fine copy in dust jacket with some restoration to spine ends and flap folds not affecting any lettering. Spine of jacket very slightly darkened. An attractive copy of a very scarce book in jacket. Budgen's account is one of the best sources of information about Joyce during the period of the composition of Ulysses. <br/><br/> Grayson & Grayson hardcover books
1963157813New York: Vanguard 1963. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Richard / Joyce Carol Oates." The author's first book. <br /> <br /> Jacket spine lightly faded and rubbed else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Vanguard unknown
1982538236New York / Santa Cruz: The Viking Press / The Cowell Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition of this excerpt. 12mo. 34pp. last 22 pages blank. Frontispiece photograph. Red silk cloth over boards. Glue that affixes the photo has bled-through a little on the previous page else fine. Copy number 3 of 4 copies printed by JoAnn Berns at The Cowell Press. A brief excerpt from the Joyce novel. OCLC locates a single copy. The Viking Press / (The Cowell Press hardcover
1918539152Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition issue with laid endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Small tape shadows on endpapers where a previous owner probably tried to preserve the original unprinted glassine apparently without success else a very near fine copy lacking the tissue dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A5: issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1923427747London: The Egoist Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 12mo. Neat owner's name on front fly else very near fine. One of only 107 copies of this very scarce edition. The Egoist Press hardcover
1918001839New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. Surprisingly this is the great Irish writer's only dramatic work; it was rejected by Yeats for production at the Abbey Theatre - perhaps therein lies the tale. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Grayish-tan paper-covered boards blindstamped but unfilled; green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Clean text; 154 pages. Very discreet bookseller's label on the front paste-down. Tiniest hints of wear at the edges one must look carefully!; possibly the best copy Quercus has seen. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. B.W. Huebsch Hardcover
195889491NY: Viking 1958. Eighth US printing. 628 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning and a few small spots to spine. The first edition to incorporate Joyce’s corrections to the text. Much less common than the 1939 first US edition. NY: Viking unknown
1939657801The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Printing stated First Published May 1939. This copy is from the library of academic/poet William Matchett with his name and date on the ffep and features his notes in the margins throughout the whole text guess he read the book from cover to cover; beside the notes and a humorous magazine clipping to the front pastedown a Very Good copy with moderate shelfwear; jacket is separated along the front spine edge and large chips to the spine as well as at the bottom corners else Good. Many of Matchett’s notes are informative and add to the textual reading. He taught for many years at the UW in Seattle and was a close colleague with Theodore Roethke. The Viking Press hardcover
1939053109New York: Viking Press 1939. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 628pp.; HB blk.w/gilt; slight rub w/hinges cracked; PONstamp; cleantight pgs. DJ pale bluegray w/bluered&white; heavy rub&soil w/2x5"chipspine; wear on edges&corners; tape repairs on spine&edges. Joyce classic 6.25x9.75 <br/> <br/> Viking Press hardcover
1930312065Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. Printed wrappers. Lacking glassine and slipcase spine heavily chipped dampstaining. First edition number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies" initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73 1 pp. 4to. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press unknown
192728729Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First edition. Original green printed boards some fading as usual light wear to spine. contents in excellent condition. Signature on front free endpaper. Errata slip present. Shakespeare and Company unknown
193248658London: Faber and Faber 1932. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE in lovely condition. Subtitled "Fragments from WORK IN PROGRESS" TWO TALES OF SHEM AND SHAUN would later be included in parts I and III of FINNEGAN'S WAKE as symbolic of the sons of HCE. They were first published in 1929 in Paris at the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies and were quite obscure until the present Faber and Faber edition. A beautiful copy of an important stepping stone on the way to Joyce's final book. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mint green boards. Original unclipped 2s. 6d. orange dust jacket. 46 pages. Ownership stamp of B. Naumburg to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear small closed tear near middle of spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight. Faber and Faber unknown
1932204268London: Faber & Faber 1932. First English edition. Characteristic marking to boards; minor thumb-dent affecting first few leaves bright copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with a bit of wear toward the crown. Small 8vo 45pp; pale green boards. First generally available edition of this selection from Finnegans Wake including "Mookse and the Gripes" and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper" originally published in a limited Paris edition by Black Sun Press. Slocum & Cahoon A37. Faber & Faber unknown
192619069Paris:: Shakespeare and Company 1926. 8th printing. rebound in limp green morocco t.e.g. Fore-edge browned; front free endpaper slightly chipped and re-inserted on a stub; front hinge neatly repaired; otherwise very good with some light wear to the extremities of the spine. . 8vo. Shakespeare and Company, unknown
17059Dijon France: Maurice Darantiere The is a curious First Edition copy of James Joyces's ULYSSES. The book is lacking the preliminary pages title page copyright and starts with the famous 1st text page: " Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead. the pagination ends on pages 732 with Trieste-Zuerich-Paris 1914 - 1921. Followed by " Ulysses Additional Corrections" on pages 734 - 736 and printers information at the bottom of page 736 : PRINTED FOR SYLVIA BEACH BY MAUCRICE DARANTIERE AT DIJON FRANCE. Plain carboard covers with linen-taped spine and lettering Joyce Ulysses. Lacking the famous blue papcovers for the wrappers. According to Slcum & Calhoun :"The fourth fifthe and sixth printings were issued in white covers with the title and author printed in blue on the front cover and spine. The fourth and fifth were printed on thick paper of inferior quality and had Price: Sixty Francs printed on the back cover. In the fourth fifth and sixth printings the text was corrected for the errata which had been issued with the second and third printings but more typographical errors which had been discovered were listed as Ulysses Additional corrections and included in the regular pagination pp. 733-736. The seventh printing issued in blue covers with title and author in white also contained these From this information it would appear that the presence of the "Additional corrections" would indicate a later printing it could be 4th 5th 6th or 7th.corrections. I Text and pages clean without scribbles . Would obviously need TLC and rebinding. First Edition. Fair. Maurice Darantiere unknown
50077NY: Garland Publishing Inc. 1984. Three Volumes; small 4to.; cloth backed board with gilt decorations hardcovers; Vol One Episode 1 Through 11 xiii 629 pages; Vol Two Episodes 12 through 15 ix pages 630-1337; Vol Three Episodes 16 through 18 ix pages 1340-1919; all volumes in very good condition with no apparent flaws. NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984 unknown