Search results for: 'the works'
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JACKSON, Lady Catherine Charlotte. The Works.c.1899
Édition des Aquarelles. Limited to 26 numbered copies for England and America. Lady Jackson (1824-91) was the wife of diplomat Sir George Jackson, known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts to abolish the slave trade. After his death she edited his papers for publication and then turned... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61558
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JONSON, Ben. The Works.London : 1875
An attractively bound late reprint of the Gifford edition of Jonson's works, originally published in 1816. "Gifford's editorial work as a textual scholar is accomplished. He produced various editions of English dramatists Gifford's most notable textual work was on Jonson, of whom he was a fierce partisan. His edition contains forthright attacks on... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 104284
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(JOHNSON, Samuel, contrib.) ASCHAM, Roger. The English Works.London : [1767]
First collected and first Johnson edition, second issue: "this issue is distinguished by the new half-title and undated title, and by the absence of the single leaf of 'Additional Subscribers'; in all other respects it comprises the sheets from the first issue of 1761" (Fleeman). With the 4-page list of subscribers, to whom the book was originally issued... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 120660
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works.Oxford : 1825
A handsomely bound set of Samuel Johnson's works, part of Pickering's Oxford English Classics series. The edition was superintended by Francis Pearson Walesby (1798-1858), professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. The work was initially intended as a nine volume series; a supplementary two volumes of Johnson's debates brought the total to... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122841
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of the English Poets.London : 1790
Second edition, with 14 authors, including Johnson himself, added to the original selection of 1779-81. The ultimate literary success of Johnson's career, the prefaces written to append the vast collection of English poetry were quickly recognized as setting a new standard for English literary biography. "In particular, the surveys of Cowley, Milton,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140493
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works.London : 1820
A beautifully bound set of an attractive edition, printed in a large legible type. Arthur Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson was first published in 1792.
With an appealing Scottish provenance: ownership inscription at head of title pages, "Mrs Forbes, Echt House", Aberdeenshire. This was the home of James Forbes (1775-1850),... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 24300
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JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales.New York : 1922
Second New York Edition, the first and best collected edition of Henry James' works. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 68528
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JONSON, Ben. The Workes.London : 1641]
First complete collected edition, comprising the second edition of volume 1 and the first edition of volumes 2 and 3. The first volume is a close reprint of the first edition of 1616. The second volume contains the reissued, unsold sheets of three plays published in 1631, which were edited by Jonson and intended to supplement his 1616 Workes. The balance... Learn More£42,500.00Stock Code: 108347
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JAMES, Henry. The Ambassadors.New York & London : 1904
First US edition, second printing (dated a year after the first), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mary Jameson Judah in remembrance of March 16th and 17th 1905. Henry James".
Mary Jameson Judah (1851-1930) was an accomplished hostess, giving dinners with monumental menus in both Memphis - where her... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131659
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JAMES, Henry. The Ambassadors.New York & London : 1903
First US edition, first printing. Edel and Laurence note that this edition of The Ambassadors was "marked by a curious error which remained unobserved until attention to it was drawn by Robert E. Young in the November 1950 issue of American Literature"; that is that Chapters XXVIII and XXIX had been reversed by some conscientious editor at Harper's... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136586
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JAMES, Henry. The Madonna of the Future and other tales.London : 1879
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the vol. I half-title, "Mrs. Lombard, from her old friend, H. James, Paris. Nov. 3d 1879". The Lombards were from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and friends of the James family. Mrs Lombard (born Harriet H Jones, 1821-1884) often travelled in Europe with her daughters Fanny (Frances, 1840-1914)... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 132087
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JAMES, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature.London, New York and Bombay : 1902
First edition, first impression, of one of James's masterworks, with a printed presentation slip "From the Author", from the library of the Oxford philosopher F. "Canning" S. Schiller (1864-1937), with his pencil annotations throughout.
James focuses on four central topics: the "experiential approach and the generic meaning of religion; the... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136480
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JOHNSON, Samuel. An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers.London : 1744
First edition of Johnson's celebrated biography of his friend Richard Savage, the flamboyant poet, playwright, and blackmailer, here bound with the first edition of Oliver Goldsmith's life of Beau Nash, another of the most celebrated biographies of the 18th century.
Johnson's Life of Savage has the last page in the state with a single-line erratum.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 141773
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JOSEPHUS, Flavius. [Works, in Greek, edited by Arnoldus Arlenius.]Basel : 1544
Editio princeps, a wide-margined copy of the handsomely printed first edition in the original Greek, providing a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation to the end of the war with Rome (70 CE). The printed work is taken from manuscripts in the library of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, for whom the editor Arlenius was librarian. The present copy matches... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 118255
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JOSEPHUS, Flavius. [Works, in Latin: Antiquitates Judaicae; De bello Judaico; Contra Apionem.]Milan : 1513/14
First edition to add the complementary work of pseudo-Hegesippus, handsomely printed in clear Roman type for the noted Renaissance scholar and professor at Milan, Alexander Minutianus, a zealous proponent of Latin literature. It also includes a ninth-century compilation based primarily on pseudo-Hegesippus, and a list of concordances between pseudo-Hegesippus... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 138817
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JOHNSON, Ray. The Paper Snake.New York : 1965
First edition, first printing, casebound issue. A particularly fine example of this seminal artist's book, which interweaves text with collages and mail art. Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a Neo-Dada artist loosely associated with the Fluxus movement. He was once described as "New York's most famous unknown artist" and the network of mail art he instigated... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 112862
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JERVIS, Thomas Best. To her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Allied Armies of France and England. This Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula,London : 1854
First edition, evidently first state, and uncommon thus. Superbly detailed map of the Crimean Peninsula produced at the outbreak of the war in the region with "the Russian names, title and observations translated or rendered into English by Major Jervis himself, and various useful and important additions also made to the original Russian map" (map... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 90443
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JERVIS, Thomas Best. To her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Allied Armies of France and England. This Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula,London : 1854
First edition, seemingly an early state, here mounted on ten smaller sheets, rather than the two large sheets as usually encountered, but the positioning of the marbled outer wrappers with the map text, still suggest this bipartite division. Superbly detailed map of the Crimean Peninsula produced at the outbreak of the war in the region with "the Russian... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 104001
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JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition. The creation of the dictionary was Johnson's greatest literary labour. Helped by a succession of needy amanuenses who worked in the surprisingly spacious garret of his house in Gough Square, he experienced the death of his mother and underwent agonies of procrastination before finally completing the task in his 46th year. Boswell called... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 90616
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JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition of this most famous of English dictionaries. This work has at various times been called "the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century" (Hitchings); "the only dictionary of the English language compiled by a writer of the first rank" (Robert Burchfield); "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 87924
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JEVONS, William Stanley. The Substitution of Similars, The True Principle of Reasoning, Derived from a Modification of Aristotle's Dictum.London : 1869
First edition of the economist, logician, and philosopher's most popular and accessible work. "At the end of 1866 Jevons had begun 'thinking about logic again seriously' and considered grafting some developments on to the modified version of Boole's system that he had published in 1863. In the next two months the idea that 'the great and universal principle... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122828
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JAMES, William. The Principles of Psychology.New York : 1890
First edition, second printing, of the American philosopher and psychologist's most influential work and "the foundation of the American school of experimental psychology" (Garrison-Morton).
Influenced by his European counterpart and contemporary Wilhelm Wundt, William James (1842-1910) viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology:... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 141538
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JEVONS, W. Stanley. The Theory of Political Economy.London : 1871
First edition of Jevons's foremost contribution to the history of economic thought. "Comparatively short and lucidly written, it sharply attacked the classical theory of value of the 'Ricardo-Mill school', and offered in its place the challenging view that 'value depends entirely upon utility', asserting boldly that 'Economy, if it is to be a science... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 119905
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JONES, David. In Parenthesis.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932. In Parenthesis won Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 124934
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JEVONS, W. S. Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the Relation of Logic and Mathematics.London : 1864
First edition of Jevons's first work on logic, one of two pamphlets (the other was The Substitution of Similars, 1869) in which he developed the calculus presented by Boole in An investigation of the laws of thought (1854). Jevons had already consulted Boole before sending him a copy; in a letter of 1863 he recorded,"I have written on the subject to... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 114514
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JOHNSON, Daniel. Sketches of Field Sports as followed by the Natives of India.London : 1822
First edition; a second appeared in 1827. Daniel Johnson (1766/7-1835), surgeon and author, "was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 January 1789. He conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 114063
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JONES, David. In Parenthesis.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932. In Parenthesis won Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125671
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JACOB, George Le Grand, Major-General. Western India before and during the Mutinies: Pictures drawn from Life.London : 1872
Second edition, one year after the first, fairly uncommon, just 9 locations for this, and two for the first on Library Hub. This copy inscribed on the half-title: "To Sir Henry Rodes Green KL.C.S.I and C.B. from his old friend The Author", initialled and dated in 1874. "I have met with no work giving full insight into the duties and responsibilities... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 112990
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JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. From the Year 1793 to 1817.London : [after 1835]
First edition, later state. First issued in 1817, the work sold slowly, which led Jenkins to issue copies as demand necessitated. The earliest copies of this book have the text printed on paper watermarked 1812 and 1816; this copy is printed on paper watermarked 1835. An attractively bound copy of this magnificent illustration of the high-water mark... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 94719
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JAMES, William. Autograph letter signed from James to his friendly critic, the American philosopher John Edward Russell;Rome : 1900
An affectionate autograph letter signed from James to John Edward Russell, professor of philosophy at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with the letter from Russell to James, in his wife's hand, which prompted the aforementioned response, plus related correspondence from Alice James dated from their time spent abroad in Europe.
Russell... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126088
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JEFFERYS, Thomas. The American Atlas:London : 1775
First edition of this celebrated atlas, "the chief publication used by English and American officers during the American Revolution" (Karpinski) and "one of the most authoritative and comprehensive atlases of America" (Ristow), with large maps of 11 of the 13 colonies, and of French Canada.
As Geographer to the Prince of Wales, and subsequently... Learn More£135,000.00Stock Code: 141814
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JOHNSON, Samuel (preface); DODSLEY, Robert. The Preceptor: containing A General Course of Education.London : 1783
Eighth edition of this popular epitome of contemporary learning, first published in 1748. Robert Dodsley compiled the work, but it is noted for its preface by Samuel Johnson, who also contributed "The Vision of Theodore", a moralist allegory of human life, which Johnson is reputed by Boswell to have thought "the best thing he ever wrote" (Life of Johnson).... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127217
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JAMES, Henry. Notes of a Son & Brother.London : 1914
First English edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Constance Fletcher, in faithful remembrance, Henry James, March 1914". An excellent association: Julia Constance Fletcher (1858-1938) had left America with her mother and the painter Eugene Benson and moved to Venice. Constance had a brief... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 132098
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JAMES, F. L. The Unknown Horn of Africa:London : 1888
First edition. "While primarily a work of exploration and adventure in Somaliland, the author does partake in a few hunts for kudu, lion, and assorted antelope near the River Webbe. Once while stalking rhinoceros, he came within a few feet of one but was unable to see it due to the heavy growth of mimosa before it made its escape. The coloured plates... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 60741
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JOHNSON, B. S. The Unfortunates.London : 1969
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inside cover of the box to the publisher, editor and literary agent William Miller, who was one of the main driving forces behind Panther Books: "For William, with respect for his courage in publishing this: and thanks, Bryan, 1/1/69" and with his signature over the printed... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 88781
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(JOHNSON, Samuel.) BOSWELL, James; George Birkbeck Hill (ed.) Boswell's Life of Johnson.Oxford : 1887
First Hill edition. By 1887 Hill was an established commentator of both Johnson and Boswell's works, having published Dr Johnson, his Friends and his Critics (1878) and an edition of Boswell's correspondence (1879). The Clarendon Press accepted Hill's proposal for a new edition of Boswell's Life in 1881, and the six volume text - the... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139100
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Hamburg : 1933
First Odyssey edition, second printing (October 1933; following the first Odyssey printing of December 1932). 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£300.00Stock Code: 143094
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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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JAMES, P. D. A Mind to Murder.London : 1963
Uncorrected proof copy, inscribed by the author for fellow writer on the title page, "To Clive Hirschhorn with every good wish from the author, P. D. James". Hirschhorn, known primarily as a writer and critic, is also a keen book collector. Hirschhorn moved to London in 1963, the year of this work's publication, and was the Sunday Express's film and... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 130265
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Paris : 1928
Tenth printing, unrestored in the original wrappers and in particularly nice condition. 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. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 143087
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JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach.Paris : 1932
First English edition (printed in France), number 13 of 25 copies signed by the author, which, together with 6 hors de commerce copies, not for sale and inscribed by Joyce with the name of the recipient, comprised the total edition; this is one of a handful of copies still in private hands. Joyce's daughter designed the illuminations as artistic therapy.
Pomes... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 139014
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(JONES, E. T.) BOCHET, Pierre-Alexis. Le guide du comptable, ou nouveaux éléments de comptabilité commerciale, méthode synthétique, brève et facile,Paris : 1863
First edition, rare. Bochet prefaces his work with a summary of Edward Jones's work of 1796 on single entry bookkeeping. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 104928
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JOHN OF SALISBURY. Policraticus de nugis curialium et vestigijs philosophorum continens libros octo.Lyon : 1513
Second edition, first published in Brussels c. 1480, of John of Salisbury's Policraticus. Subtitled De nugis curialium et vestigiis philosophorum (Concerning the Frivolities of Courtiers and the Traditions of the Philosophers), it has been called "the first medieval treatise on political thought" (David Knowles in The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy).... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 101888
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JOHNSON, B. S. Travelling People.London : 1963
First edition, first impression. From Julian Mitchell's library with his ownership inscription; his third novel is advertised on the rear panel. B. S. Johnson's first novel Travelling People won the Gregory Award in 1963, despite Johnson disowning the work on the grounds that it was a "disaster". Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 115871
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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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JAMES, Philip. Early Keyboard Instruments.New York : 1930
First Edition, First Impression, US Issue. A compendious and detailed work by the world authority of his day on the subject. James was keeper of instruments at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 31143
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JAZZ. Cotton Club Menu - Lenox Ave and 142 St.New York : c.1930
Highly appealing menu for the legendary original Harlem Cotton Club. Inevitable stereotypical artwork of the period, "bamboo" lettering, and a sharply dressed minstrel-like figure in a high hat accompanied by four scantily-clad "high yellow"chorines. The menu offers Chinese or American options, while only non-alcoholic beverages are offered, so a date... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 133607
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(JUDD, Donald.) SMITH, Brydon. Donald Judd.Ottawa : 1975
First edition, first printing, cloth issue (also issued in wrappers). The definitive catalogue raisonné on Judd, compiled to coincide with the major exhibition of Judd's work, held at The National Gallery of Canada that year. The volume contains an interpretative essay on Judd's work and development by Roberta Smith, an illustrated list of his exhibitions,... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 140026
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JAMI. Salaman and Absal.Dushanbe, Tajikistan : 1977
First edition thus. An attractive facsimile of an illuminated manuscript copy dated 1521 is accompanied by a complete Russian translation and commentary in Persian and English. Salaman and Absal is one part of Persian Jami's Haft Awrang, a cycle of seven poems in mathnavi (couplet) form considered one of the foundational texts of Persian literature.... Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 110797
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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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JAMES, William. Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results.Berkeley : 1898
First edition thus of James's lecture in which he first pledged his commitment to pragmatism, delivered before the Philosophical Union in August 1898, considered the "opening gun in James's discourses on pragmatism" (Burkhardt & others, p. 264) and laying the groundwork for his influential 1907 masterwork.
The lecture was originally published... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 117949
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JAMES, William. Some Problems of Philosophy.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing, of James's last book, published posthumously. "For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. Characteristically, he chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners would force him to be nontechnical and readable.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136485
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JOYCE, James - LARBAUD, Valery. Autograph letter signed to James Joyce.Paris : 1925
Autograph letter signed to James Joyce, in which Larbaud thanks Joyce for a previous letter and declines an invitation to a party hosted by the Symbolist critic Arthur Symons. Notably Larbaud informs Joyce that he is going to Valais in Switzerland for five weeks to continue his work supervising Auguste Morel's French translation of Ulysses, which was... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 129889
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JACQUEMART, Albert & Edmond le Blant. Histoire, Industriele et Commerciale de a Porcelaine.Paris : 1862
First edition. Attractive copy of this important work in the history of the connoisseurship of porcelain. Jacquemart was the leading French collector of oriental ceramics of his time, and here developed a descriptive typology, including that of "families" - famille rose, famille verte and so forth - for Chinese ceramics. The majority of the text and... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 76215
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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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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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JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Paris : 1922
First edition, first printing, number 475 of 750 copies, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Ulysses was published in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 large paper copies were printed on heavier vergé d'Arches, and... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 132928
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JOYCE, James. Chamber Music.London : [1907]
First edition, first impression, of Joyce's first commercially published work. Chamber Music was printed in a small edition intended to be of 500 copies (Gorman says 509 were printed) and bound up in one of three binding variants, of which this is the second. The first is a little larger (162 x 110 mm), in a slightly lighter shade of green... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 96932
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JENKINS, Charles Francis. Picture Ribbons.Washington DC : 1897
First edition of the author's book on chronophotography and proto-film reels. Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934) was a prolific inventor (over 400 patents were issued to his name) and an important pioneer of cinema and television. He devised a "motion picture projecting box", which, on 6 June 1894, became the first apparatus to project a film in front... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 102230
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JUGLAR, Clément. Des crises commerciales et de leur retour périodique en France, en Angleterre et aux États-unis.Paris : 1862
First edition of the book that laid the foundation of modern business cycle analysis. Des crises commerciales is the principal work of a man whom Schumpeter says "must be ranked, as to talent and command of scientific method, among the greatest economists of all times". Schumpeter bases his evaluation on three facts: "To begin with, Juglar was the first... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 118820
