Search results for: 'JOYCE, James.'
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Hamburg : 1932
First Odyssey edition, first printing, single volume issue, the first printing of Ulysses issued in cloth. The novel was first published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Widely recognized as the key book of 20th-century English literature, it is among the major works in the modernist canon. Stuart Gilbert edited the text of this edition with help... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 143096
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JOYCE, James. Dubliners.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, first issue, inscribed by the author on the initial blank, "To Beatrice Randegger James Joyce Trieste 19 June 1914". The official publication date in London was a few days earlier, Monday 15 June, but Joyce was in Trieste and did not receive the first of the 120 copies he had agreed to buy from Grant Richards until the... Learn More£195,000.00Stock Code: 142306
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SASSOON, Siegfried; JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle.Chicago : [1935]
First edition thus, limited issue, one of 350 copies only, inscribed by the composer, "For Siegfried Sassoon - with my best wishes - Hazel Felman", and designated a review copy on the limitation page. Felman had previously scored Sassoon's poem "Song, Be My Soul".
First appearing in 1928, Anna Livia Plurabelle was an early published chapter... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140032
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JOYCE, James. Chamber Music.London : 1907
First edition, first issue, of Joyce's first book, a particularly nice copy unrestored in the original cloth.
The publishing history of Chamber Music is well documented but has some lacunae. The book was published on 10 May 1907 in an edition of 500 copies, but Mathews did not bind all copies at once. There have been various guesses as to how... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 143086
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.New York : 1916
First edition in book form, first printing, of Joyce's first novel and the essential prequel to Ulysses, scarce in any state but especially rare retaining the dust jacket.
Due at least in part to the hostile reaction to its serialization in The Egoist, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. It... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 143088
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JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, number 325 of 800 copies signed by the author. Anna Livia Plurabelle is an early published chapter from Joyce's famous "work in progress" that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 131151
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JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake.London, : 1939
First edition, signed limited issue, number 271 of 425 copies signed by Joyce and printed on handmade paper. This was a joint publication, with the American and English publishers sharing the edition 300 to 125 respectively. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131628
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JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach.Paris : 1927
First edition, first impression, of this collection of thirteen of Joyce's poems. Beneath each poem the place and year of composition are provided; they range from 1904 to 1924. The first poem, 'Tilly' is named after the Irish custom of providing customers a free extra serving; the book was sold at 12 shillings, so the thirteenth poem came "free".
This... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 148251
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.London : 1917
So-called second edition; the first edition to be printed in the UK. This edition was preceded by the English issue of the Huebsch edition of 1916. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, "To George and Mary Slocombe James Joyce Paris 7. i. 926"; George Slocombe was an English journalist writing for the American papers.... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 77029
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JOYCE, James. Exiles. A Play in Three Acts.London : 1918
First edition, first impression. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 63344
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JOYCE, James. Yurishizu. [Ulysses.]Tokyo : 1931 & 1934
First edition in Japanese, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the translator to fellow novelist Narasaki Tsutomu on the front free endpaper of volume 1, transcribed on a loosely inserted slip, "Ito Sei - Narazaki Tutomu". This edition is the first non-European translation and predates the publication of the work in England and the United... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131239
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.London : 1916
First edition, UK issue. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Frederick Britten Austin, with Austin's note "signed for me F. Britten Austin" followed, in Joyce's hand, "by James Joyce Paris 1.1.39". The English writer Austin (1885-1941) published various short story collections, chiefly on military, maritime, and supernatural themes. Austin was a... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 140235
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Paris : 1922
First edition, first impression. One of 750 copies printed on handmade paper, this number 811. Of the edition of 1,000 copies, in addition to the 750 copies on handmade paper, there were 100 signed copies on thicker Dutch handmade paper numbered 1-100 and 150 large paper copies on vergé d'Arches numbered 101-250. Learn More£16,500.00Stock Code: 96666
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.London : 1936
First UK edition. The entire edition was limited to 1,000 copies only, of which this is one of 900 numbered copies. This was the first issue to be entirely produced in Britain, with an appendix with documents relating to the legal history of Ulysses and with a bibliography. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 47333
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.New York : 1916
First edition, first printing, and a very attractive copy of Joyce's first novel. Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, first published on 29... Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 77507
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JOYCE, James. Chamber Music.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding, presentation copy with Joyce's inscribed card inserted. The inscription reads: "Dear Mr Simson, As you were kind enough to write me often about my book."
Theodore Spicer-Simson was an American medallist, painter, sculptor and illustrator. Born in Le Havre, he first met Joyce in Paris... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 140266
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JOYCE, James. Dubliners.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, first issue, one of 746 sets of sheets bound by Grant Richards and issued in London on 15 June 1914. The remaining 504 sets of the 1,250 printed were shipped to Huebsch in New York, where they were not issued until much later, sometime between 15 December 1916 and 1 January 1917. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 106591
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JOYCE, James. Exiles.London : 1921
First Egoist Press edition - the second English edition overall - of Joyce's only play, rare in the dust jacket. This copy is of the first issue, one of 500 copies in green cloth, the remainder sheets of the entire edition of 1,000 copies being sold to Cape in 1924 and bound up after that date in black cloth. Though first published in 1918, by Grant... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 112483
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Basel : 1927
First German edition, number 174 of 1,000 copies, this one of an unspecified number bound in quarter morocco; it is the first foreign language edition of Ulysses. Slocum and Cahoon comment that "the emphasis on the private nature of this publication and the strict limitation of copies was caused by some fear on the part of the Swiss publisher that... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 35202
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JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle.New York : 1928
First edition. One of a small number of special copies printed on green Alexandra Japan paper, not signed by Joyce (as the standard issue of 800 is). The number of copies printed on green paper is unspecified, but Crosby Gaige's papers at Princeton suggest fifty copies may have been printed. Slocum & Cahoon speculate that only six of which were sold... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 138348
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JOYCE, James. Ulysse.Paris : 1929
First edition in French, number 474 of 875 copies on Alfa Vergé paper, out of a total edition of 1,200. This was the second translation of Ulysses following the German edition of 1927.
A French translation of Ulysses was started in 1923 by Valery Larbaud at Joyce's request, but the author grew dissatisfied and halted the project, saying that... Learn More£1,600.00Stock Code: 143100
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JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of Joyce's final work, published simultaneously in the US. 3,400 copies of this edition were printed of which 950 were destroyed. Joyce's final work. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144110
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MATISSE, Henri (illus.); JOYCE, James. Ulysses.New York : 1935
First illustrated edition, signed limited, number 478 of 1,500 copies signed by Matisse.
Within weeks of the lifting of the US ban on the book (6 December 1933), Limited Editions Club impresario George Macy approached Joyce about a special edition of Ulysses, and by February 1934 he was en route to Paris to speak to Matisse about illustration.... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 147814
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JOYCE, James - PRESCOTT, Joseph. James Joyce: A Study in Words.New York : March 1939
The truly rare original offprint, with only two copies listed by WorldCat worldwide (Harvard and National Library of Israel), of this groundbreaking early article on James Joyce, published two months before the final release of Finnegans Wake. Joseph Prescott would go on to become a major voice in Joycean studies, in particular through his book Exploring... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 140930
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SCHUYLER, James. The Morning of the Poem.New York : 1980
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, " For Virgil, "...My long life..." Jimmy 3/14/80." Recipient was Virgil Thomson, the American composer, whom besides Schulyer forged friendships with James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Piccaso and other prominent cultural figures of the day. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 101437
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JOYCE, James - MCLUHAN, Marshall. James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial.New York : spring 1953
Offprint with the ownership inscription of poet and academic Ronald Bates to the front wrapper and his pencilled notes to the contents. Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates (1924-1995) earned his PhD from the University of Toronto, the subject of his doctoral thesis being James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. His teaching career was spent at the universities of Upsala,... Learn More£520.00Stock Code: 60922
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JOYCE, James, & others. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.New York : 1961
A very nice copy of this attractive reissue. Our Exagmination was originally published by Shakespeare & Company in 1939. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 88610
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JOYCE, James - ALBERTS, Julien. A Bouquet of Blooms.Nice : 1996
First edition, number 33 of 200 copies including an additional print, from a total edition of 650. This is a powerful evocation of chapter 15 of Ulysses, customarily referred to as the Circe episode: Joyce's hero Leopold Bloom, along with Stephen Dedalus and Vincent Lynch, visit Dublin's red-light district, known familiarly as the Monto, but which Joyce... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 140014
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HAMMETT, Dashiell (contrib.); RASCOE, Burton, & Groff Conklin (eds.) The Smart Set Anthology of World Famous Authors.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, which contains the first appearance for two Dashiell Hammett short stories, "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" and "Green Elephant". The anthology also includes pieces from F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Jim Tully and many others. Learn More£285.00Stock Code: 105283
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EGYPT - BUDGE, E. A. Wallis. Egyptian Antiquities:London : 1893
First edition, limited issue of 200 copies, this copy out-of-series. Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924.
One of the great popularisers of Egyptology around the turn of the 20th century, his translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead (from the Papyrus... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 146069
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BRYHER. Civilians.Territet : 1927
First edition, sole printing, of the author's fourth novel, and the only Bryher novel to be published by her own publisher, Pool.
Bryher was the pen name of Annie Winifred Ellerman (1894-1983). She moved in the 1920s Parisian circles of artists and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Her wealth... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 147930
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WILSON, Edmund. Axel's Castle.New York and London : 1931
First edition, first printing (Scribner's "A"), scarce in the jacket. Axel's Castle, which is numbered among Connolly's 100 Books of the Modern Movement, was an influential study on the roots of Modernism in the Symbolist Movement, with chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Rimbaud. The title relates... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 143829
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RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES, Georges (ed.) Bifur.Paris : 1929-31
First editions, limited issue. A complete set of the Surrealist-inflected, avant-garde Parisian art and literary journal, issued between 25 May 1929 and 10 June 1931. Each volume is numbered: the first four volumes were printed in an edition of 3,000 copies, volumes 5 to 7 one of 2,000 copies, and volume 8 was one of 1,700 copies. Established by Pierre... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 107785
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NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol.Norfolk, CT : [1944]
First edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed in Rrussian by Nabokov to his wife Véra on the front free endpaper: "My beloved, here's a little book for you, my life, here's another little book for you, my love, there will be more little books / B the letter "V" in English / 1944". Nabokov has annotated this copy in nearly 60 instances, from... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 123847
