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1945WRCLIT21070London: Joseph 1945. Gilt cloth. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. REILLY WWII p.72. Joseph hardcover books
1960WRCLIT29406Austin: UT Press 1960. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrations by the author. Introduction by James B. Meriwether. First edition issued as a Supplement to III:1 of THE TEXAS QUARTERLY. A very good copy in lightly nicked and edgeworn dust jacket. A bit uncommon these days. UT Press hardcover books
1953WRCLIT17703Paris: Plon 1953. Printed wrappers. Toe of spine slightly worn else fine unopened. First edition in French translated by Yvonne Davet. One of ten hors commerce copies from a total of seventy copies on alfa. This edition includes Cary's introduction to the standard edition. Plon unknown books
1951300285New York Harper & Brothers 1951. 1951. First edition so stated; "H-A". 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 261 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of October 3 original price $3.00. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harper & Brothers [1951]. hardcover books
19559366JLondon: Michael Joseph 1955. First Edition. Fine in a bright fine dust jacket. Fresh attractive copy. Michael Joseph unknown books
1985UCARNOT00LRNew Directions 1985. Very Good. Cary Joyce. Not Honour More. New York: New Directions 1985. viii 309pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. New Directions paperback books
UCARNOT01BJVery Good. Cary Joyce. Not Honour More. NP: NP ND. 1st edition. Book condition: Very good. Edges bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good; shelf wear rubbing chipping. unknown books
195569354New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. First Edition. 309 pages Very Good in a slightly edge chipped and foxed dust jacket. . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1955700970London: Michael Joseph. 1955. Very Good copy in Very Good DJ. Ownership signature. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1955708457NY: Harper & Bros. 1955. Very Good in Very Good edge-worn DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
196344341Seattle: University of Washington Press 1963. Hardcover. Very good. Very good hardback in a price clipped lightly rubbed jacket that has a few tiny closed tears. <br/><br/> University of Washington Press hardcover books
1963006989Seattle: University of Washington Press 1963. With an introduction by Hazard Adams. xlvi 274p. dj. University of Washington Press unknown books
195273579London: Michael Joseph 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A psychological exploration of the politics of marriage this is the first novel in Joyce's Second Trilogy. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped with some unobtrusive tape reinforcement to each end of the spine; otherwise very good. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1952300278New York Harper & Brothers 1952. 1952. First edition so stated; "H-B. 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 301 pages. No bookplates. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of Sept. 18 original price of $3.00. Also laid in loose is a postcard from the publicity department Harper & Brothers announcing the publication date changed from September 18 to October 13. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harper & Brothers [1952]. hardcover books
196047933New York: Harper and Brothers 1960. First American Edition. Octavo 21 cm; one quarter light green cloth with darker green coated cloth sides in green pictorial dustwrapper; 9-285pp. Dustwrapper spine tanned heel and crown chipped; mild handling wear soiling and toning rubbing to extremities; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock slightly yellowing at margins; ownership signature on ffep bookseller's plate on rear pastedown. Very Good overall.<br/><br/>A posthumously released collection of 34 short stories by Irish-Anglo novelist Joyce Cary many of which were previously published including his Romance at the time the only short story to appear in Time magazine; four stories are published here for the first time. A tireless writer Cary suffered from ALS in his later years and reportedly used a rope to support his arms to write; failing that he dictated his stories until he could no longer speak. He employed a wide variety of themes and subjects but often wrote of life in Nigeria where he worked as a magistrate and officer. Harper and Brothers unknown books
193652662London: Gollancz 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm.; black boards embossed in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp.; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; spine ends gently pushed; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with faint soil to front panel and light toning to the jacket spine; Near Fine. <br/><br/>Set in post-war Nigeria Elizabeth Aladai the ju-ju Princess of Rimi reigns supreme. Feared and respected she dominates the lives of the villagers. Her decisions hold sway and she has the power of life and death over those accused of crimes and witchcraft - even when the accused is just a ten-year-old child. Gollancz unknown books
1936211767New York: Harper 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good hardcover with Very good dustwrapper. The book spine ends have light rubbing. The text is nice and clean. The dustwrapper panel edges have minor wear. Harper hardcover books
195045561London: Michael Joseph 1950. First Joseph edition. 8vo pp. 303. Orange cloth stamped on the spine in silver. Endpapers little foxed o/w a VG tight copy. A novel. Michael Joseph unknown books
1936WRCLIT57454New York: Morrow 1936. Gathered trimmed signatures prefect bound in preliminary state of the dust jacket for the published book. Advance reading copy with publisher's stamp on front endsheet. Spine a trace sunned with a bit of rubbing to joints short creased tear at lower edge of upper panel otherwise a very good or better copy with the upper panel unusually bright. Morrow unknown books
1936124131London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1936. First edition of Cary's first popular novel. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition. Based on the author's own experiences with a Nigerian regiment fighting in the German colony of Kamerun The Africa Witch was Cary's first popular novel far more ambitious than his previous three and rich in incident character and theme. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
1961WRCLIT18013Austin: Reprinted from THE TEXAS QUARTERLY 1961. Printed wrappers. Upper portion of spine slightly used but a nice copy. First separate edition as an offprint from the Image of Britain issue with James Meriwether's introductory note. Reprinted from THE TEXAS QUARTERLY unknown books
195912742NY: Harper & Row 1959. 1st edition. Black cloth. Dust jacket. VG sq & tight/sm black smudge on ffep/sm neat pos on ffep/VG sp panel lightly sunned. 369 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
194776219London: Michael Joseph 1947. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 63p. Original cloth. dj price-clipped. 20cm. Jacket has some soiling and edge-wear Small dent at top and bottom of front cover. Former owner's name. Poetry. <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover books
19441309890New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 311; G/Fair; black spine with beige text; dust jacket has several chips to edges; some soiling to exterior mostly browning to rear; slight sunning to exterior; cloth has light sunning to exterior; minor rubbing to corners; text block shows browning and foxing to exterior edges; deckled fore edge; light toning to interior. 1309890. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers 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
