Joyce Introduction Notes Richard Ellmann (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Has Wear and soil to covers. Thank you for your purchase from Sunset Books! Help Promote World Literacy, GIVE a Book as a GIFT!! In stock, Ships from Ohio. WE COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES!!!! SEE PICTURES!!!!! ANY ODD/GREEN TONES ON THE SCANS ARE A PRODUCT OF MY SCANNER, NOT THE VOLUME. PLEASE NOTE!! Binding is tight and has Good hinges. Volume HAS minor corner/spine ends/edge wear. Print date for this edition is 1998. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

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: 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.

Revised ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), red boards (grey cloth spine), frontispiece, pages lightly toned, edges little foxed, reverse side jacket lightly toned (spine faded, small edge tears, tiny hole spine, flap price-clipped, light loss spine ends), written price front cover jacket. 64 pp. Originally prepared for publication 1959, this fragmented autobiographical love story, written by James Joyce in Trieste, thought to be in 1914 at age 32 (the year he started writing 'Ulysses'). The introduction by his biographer Richard Ellmann - a fascinating piece of literary detection - dates the work from internal evidence. The title is explained, as are the circumstances behind the story, and a possible reason is given why, after the copy was prepared for the printer, it was never published. This reissue of the first Viking Press limited edition retains the introduction and notes, with some revisions. The book includes four manuscript pages in reduced facsimile, as well as a frontispiece portrait. (Unnumbered pages. This revised edition was published in the same year, 1968, as the first limited edition.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First US Edition. A few notes and underlinings in text. DJ has a little edge wear.

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.

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

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, May 1968, This is 1st Trade Edition, 2nd Printing, Same Year as 1st, NF+/VG+, AS-IS, DJ light Rub, Wear Tiny Chips Extremities, Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 6" x 8.5", 1st printing after limited ed. This is an autobiographical love story written by Joyce in Trieste, most probably in 1914, when he was 32, the same year in which he began "Ulysses," wrote "Exiles" and completed "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was not published until 1968, first in a limited edition; but there was much more interest in the work than anticipated, leading to a second, unlimited "trade" edition (OF WHICH IS , this copy) 2 Page B/W Photo Frontispiece of James Joyce Holding Guitar Dressed in Tie & Buttoned Vest Taken by Ottocaro Weiss in Zurich, Switzerland 1915, soon after Joyce arrived There From Trieste.

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.