Ellmann Richard Introduction and Notes (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's gray-green paper-covered boards backed with green cloth in a blue and green paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering on book spine. Light green lettering on blue and dark green dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." 266 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Cover are virtually pristine and intact except for slight wear to edges and corners. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact except for light age toning and slight wear to extremities. Dust jacket not price-clipped. A Fine, unworn book in a Fine, unworn dust jacket. This is the famous biography about the early years of the renowned Irish author, James Joyce (1882-1941), that was written by Stanislaus Joyce (1884-1955), James's brother. Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellmann. Preface by T. S. Eliot. Index in back. Excerpt from front flap describing Stanislaus's biography: "[T]his is both a work of literary distinction and an amazing portrait of a young man in his times. . Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings ." James became a leading figure of modern and avant-garde literature. Stanislaus was also a man of letters, but his literary works tended to be more "academic" and nonfictional in nature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Light foxing to upper page edges; text is otherwise fine. Dust jacket shows light wear to top edge. Introduction and notes by Richard Ellmann.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Xxii, 266 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt; Green Boards Stamped In Blind. First Trade Printing, 1958, Gallup 77B For The Eliot Contribution. Book Clean, No Marks, Touches Of Rubbing, All Gilt Brilliant, Tiny Bumps To Two Lower Tips. Dust Jacket With Light Wear And Tiny Tears At Corners, 1.8" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel. Foxing To Top Of Plate Before Text, With Offset Foxing Onto Facing Edges; And Now Some Light Fraying At Top Edges Of Book And Dust Jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1968 The Viking Press hardcover, in slipcase, pen Inscription in front, with some shelfwear/edgewear, GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 8.5in. xxvi. 16pp. xxxvii. Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the endpapers lightly toned, former owner name neatly on the front endpaper, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the spine ever so lightly tanned, slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured. …

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Teacher-Student Relationships, Irish Poetry) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. slip case near fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition of January 1968. Dark red spine, and grey boards to match slipcase. xvii introductory pages followed by16 that are numbered, then unnumbered pages with reduced-size Joyce facsimiles and 2 fold-out, full-scale facsimile pages. Slipcase has a faint 1/2" sticker scar and 2 tiny light smudges, otherwise fine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4".…

Hardcover. First Edition in this Format. Book condition is Very Good, with a Very Good dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, including a few small bumps. Minor edgewear to boards. Previous owner name to front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. Includes facsimile pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First Edition. Four full-scale facsimile pages, the remainder in reduced facsimile, from Joyce's notebook Spine a little faded, otherwise a very nice copy in slipcase, the slipcase label a little rubbed and with traces of small other labels on verso.