James Joyce Continuation of a Work in Progress

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 100 pages. 7.72x5.04x0.55 inches. In Stock.
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. SOFT COVER IN FAIR CONDITION.COVER PANELS ARE SEPARATED [CRITERION MISCELLANY NO 15.
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 45pp, bound in blue paper over boards, lacks the spine covering, covers and back endpapers soiled, binding and hinges tight.
Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Lacks original paper jacket. Good. Used, may have wear and markings but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
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Condition: Fair. 1932. 45 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Spine strip is missing. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed. Spine strip is missing. Tanning to edges.
Works in Progress" in New York Times Book Review (June 15, 1979)

Irving, John, Joyce Carol Oates, James A Michener, John Barth, Willian Saroyan, John Hersey, Mary Gordon, and other contributors

Published by New York Times, New York, 1979

First Edition

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers. Some paper yellowing.
Card covers with dust jacket. Condition: Good. Third Impression. 32 Pp. Criterion Miscellany -No.15.
Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illus., 9 x 6.6", color wraps, 291pp + ads, covers worn, front cover badly edge-chipped with ink name of former owner at top, front cover through page 16 detached with heavy edge-wear, title page missing about 1/3, contents toned and brittle; a real mess. SWAF. But, besides James Joyce, this issue includes contributions by Harry and Caresse Crosby, Hart Crane, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams (The Somnambulists"), etc.
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Reprint. Poor paperback copy in poor dust wrapper (with some loss), now mylar-sleeved. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 32 pages; 20 cm. Subjects:Joyce, James 1882-1941. Finnegans wake. Finnegans wake (Joyce, James). Dublin (Ireland) Social life and customs; Fiction. 1 Kg.
[0-691-06338-9] 1977. (Hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 235pp. Photographs, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Based on the work of James Joyce--Ulysses. (Ideas, Literary Criticism).
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Mylar Wrapped Pamphlet. wraps with mylar wrapped flaps, 36 pp, wrapper split at spine an soiled along spine, pages sunned4.
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Softcover booklet, pale yellow wraps, lettered in red, French flaps. Criterion Miscellany No. 26. 36 pp. Mildly toned uprinted covers. Dust jacket modestly soiled, with older clear tape reinforcement along binding fold, 1/2" closed tear at heel of rear joint and diagonal crease across most of bottom rear edge. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Book.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5.25", string-tied stiff wraps, 36pp, covers a bit edge-worn and rubbed, contents nice- an unopened copy! Criterion Miscellany No. 26.
First edition, 45pp, 16mo in pale green paper boards w. blue title at spine, VG (rear corners sl.bruised, spine sl.sunned, minimal shelf wear & soiling, ex-lib bookplate on ffep with small bookseller's label at foot of front paste-down, sl.separation showing between pp16-17, light browning to endpapers and faint foxing throughout) lacks d/w.
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Condition: good. Taschenbuch. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 500g. Ecken und Kanten besto�en. 32 Seiten. Schnurbindung. In englischer Sprache. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, eingerissen sowie verf�rbt. Schmutztitel beschriftet (Bleistift). Seiten denzent nachgedunkelt sowie leicht verf�rbt.
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194 pp. Soft cover. Covers slighly rubbed, a very good copy.
Hardcover. Condition: vg- to vg. First edition. Small octavo. 45pp. Blue-green paper covered boards with blue lettering on spine. The publication is an excerpt from the then still unfinished and unpublished work that was to eventually be called "Finnegans Wake", then referred to as "Work in Progress". This material concerning the characters Shem and Shaun had been previously published in 1929 as "Tales Told of Shem and Shaun", by the Black Sun Press. Binding with light wear including some minor scratches and smudging to boards. Sunning to spine, with some light bumping to the head and tail. Interior with some light water stains to the front and rear endpapers, and first pages. Previous owner's name in pen at front free endpaper. Some light sporadic smudges and pencil marks throughout, with light age toning to pages. Binding and interior in very good- to very good overall condition.
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, 32 pages, includes loose advert for gramphone recording of Joyce reading the last four pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle First Edition, second impression , creases to edges, crease near top of booklet, pages clean, small tear and spot to advert, good condition , sewn card with paper dustwrapper , 20 cm x 13 cm Paperback ISBN:
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First Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 36 pages; 20 cm. Subjects: Joyce, James 1882-1941. Work in progress. Work in progress (Joyce, James).Novel English Ireland 20th century; Texts. 1 Kg.
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100 pp.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Orchard Gallery, Derry, in 1988. Introduction by Terry Eagleton. Text by Richard Hamilton with excerpts of "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Includes chronological exhibition checklist. Very Good. Light rubbing of cover edges, 1 mm. tear to bottom edge of recto, parallel 3 mm. tears to top edge of spine, and 3 mm. black mark on verso. Contents clean and unmarked.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ads, 9 x 6", pict wraps, 179pp with Bibliography + ads, covers browned, worn and soiled, extremities bumped and chipping lightly, hinges loose, contents toned. Whole issue present. Finnegan's Wake.
Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Yellow wrappers dust darkened at edges, otherwise a nice copy, very good or better. First British edition, wrapper issue, issued as Criterion Miscellany 26. SLOCUM & CAHOON A42.
Pub's Boards. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. Originally published in a now very rare limited edition, this is the first trade edition. The dustwrapper is chipped with some loss at the head of the spine panel, and is slightly chipped where it folds over the corners of the boards, and it is rubbed and somewhat worn on the extremities. The wrapper is not price clipped. The paper boards are very slightly and very lightly spotted; ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, and there is some browning to the endpapers. The contents are clean and bright.
32 pp. Criterion Miscellany -- No. 15. 12mo, original flexible boards in printed wrapper. First edition. Slightly dust-soiled; there is a 1-1/2 inch tear from the top edge of the title page, the result or careless opening.
Printed wrapper over stiff unprinted wrappers. First British trade edition, wrapper issue, issued as CRITERION MISCELLANY 15. Laid in is a subscription form for The Criterion. The outer wrapper is slightly frayed at the edges, with a tiny chip at the top of the rear panel. SLOCUM & CAHOON A33.
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First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good copy in yellow wrapper over stiff paper binding. Yellow wrapper is age darkened with partial separation along the spine. Issued a Criterion Miscellany No. 26. This 26 page volume is one of several fragments from Joyce's Work in Progress series that was eventually published as Finnegans Wake in 1939.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. JOYCE, James. Two Tales of Shem and Shaun. Fragments From Work In Progress London, Faber & Faber, 1932. FIRST EDITION. 45 pp., light green paper over boards, spine a little damaged with paper removed. Lacking dust jacket. Address stamped in red on endpapers and throughout, annotations in red and blue pencil. Pencil autograph: John B[ ]? / (from Una Pope-Hennessy / Xmas 1933) . Age yellowing. A fair copy, once belonged to British writer, historian, and biographer Una Pope-Hennessy. She was the daughter of Sir Arthur Birch, and married Major (later Major-General) Richard Pope-Hennessy in 1910.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Thus. Good. Used. Golden yellow coverboards have light soiing and discoloration.Hinges are cracked and there are markings throughout. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English edition. 12mo. 45pp. Paper-covered boards. Covers are moderately soiled and faded, a very good copy. *Slocum & Cahoon* A37.
1st. ed. 23 stories by Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle, Robert Coates, Eugene Jola. 1st. ed. v.g. d.j. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.