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1884UCROREP00lawJ.C. Graham & Co 1884. Fair. Crocheron Augusta Joyce. Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title. Salt Lake City: J.C. Graham & Co 1884. 131pp. 12mo. Book condition: Fair with lightly rubbed and soiled extremities. Black cloth repair to spine with neatly painted white lettering. Front hinge cracked but just holing near head. Front gathering loose. Contemporary owner's bookplate and bookplate of owner in 1954 on front pastedown. A few SLC Public Library marks throughout. J.C. Graham & Co hardcover books
18916968Leipzig Germany; Trieste: Tauchnitz 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Stanislaus Joyce's copy inscribed by him presumably in Triests where he shared lodgings with his brother James Joyce. Black textured cloth binding presumed to be a mid twentieth century rebind gilt spine lettering; original pastedowns laid down at either end of the small format Tauchnitz imprint - 15x11cm. Browning to paper stock which has become brittle with small loss to upper margins of the contents and two subsequent leaves. Short tape repair to foreedge of page 33: this is a book which has been valued for a long time. Stanislaus Joyce has written his name in black ink at the head of the half-title. There are no further annotations to the book but a small ink blot in the margin of page 27 suggesting that it was read with pen in hand. It was in 1905 that Stanislaus Joyce 1884-1955 joined his brother James Joyce's household in Trieste where the brothers shared ideas and books. While in Trieste James Joyce completed Dubliners a second version of Chamber Music and he started to work on Exiles and on the novel Ulysses that would finally make his name. This title does not appear among the known catalogue lists of James Joyce's library. pp 278. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1891 Tauchnitz hardcover
189516075Washington DC: Gibson Brothers 1895. 1st edition. Presentation copy. Red cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards ruled in blind. A VG copy bit of spine sunning/light soil to cloth. 245 pp. Frontis of Joyce. 12mo. 5" x 7 3/8" <br/><br/>Armstrong a respected member of the Confederate miliatary senior guard having served with Polk & Jackson. Long laudatory inscription from Joyce to Armstrong on the ffep: "Inscribed to / Genl Frank C. / Armstrong with / the respect that / a genuine soldier / of the "Blue" has / for a genuine / soldier of the "Gray" / John A. Joyce / Author / Washington D.C. / Nov. 25th 1895". Gibson Brothers hardcover books
1802vs011.023GB: J Johnson 1802. V1&2 2nd edn 1803; V3&4 1st 1802; V5&6 1st 1805; 143 x 90 mm. Six matching volumes all with armorial bookplate of Joseph Laycock.Full leather with twin title labels. Front cover of v1 is DETACHED. Else set is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1300g. . Hardback. VG-/No DW. J Johnson Hardcover
1804AQ21202Cambridge: Printed by and for B. Flower 1804. 324pp. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities occasional marking else a crisp unpressed and generously margined copy displaying several untrimmed fore-edges and some marginal paper flaws. With occasional neat early underlining of key passages suggesting a close reading a handful of single-word manuscript translations into French early ink-stamps of Wm. McKendrick to early blank preceding title and following leaf and later ink inscription to modern blank fly. The second edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended to be used as a textbook: as the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' the work was to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763-1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 or the by then well known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth century into a single convenient octavo volume. Mizuta 82. Second edition. 8vo. Printed by and for B. Flower hardcover
182155104London:: Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. The Third Edition. original boards; green cloth spine with printed paper label. . Spine sunned; spine label tanned; but a beautiful copy in original condition. 12mo. Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, hardcover
1896314069Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1896. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt t.e.g. Spine a bit dull and soiled at foot. Very Good. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "An account of a fishing party in verse" Bruns also known as Dreams and Chronicles. The fishing trip on Great East Lake took place in "the seventh year of the reign of Grover when the voice of the frog was known throughout the land."<br /> <br /> Dedicated to the members of the Hopewell Club who are identified in the preface; with an additional poem "To Frank Hopewell" laid in dated May 17 1895 Goodall Camp. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J83; Heller 2:1030 Privately Printed unknown
1894314068Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1894. First edition. Illustrated with plates vignettes in text. 36 2pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good plus. First edition. Illustrated with plates vignettes in text. 36 2pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Angling verseabout fishing at Camp Goodall Maine dedicated to Frank Hopewell who is the leading figure in the Hopewell Club and Joyce's later volume Dreams ca. 1896. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J84; Heller 2:1029. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J84; Heller 2:1029 <br/><br/> Privately Printed hardcover
1876616244Boston: Roberts Brothers 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition Issued anonymously in the No Name Series of novels. 12mo. Black cloth titled and decorated in red. Contemporary gift inscription spine cocked a little nicking at the crown about very good. Roberts Brothers hardcover