Joyce James Theodore Spencer (31 results)

MM paperback, taped edges. Reprint. First draft version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a fascinating and different novel in its own right. Acceptable PB reading copy. Scarce book. 230 pp Good unmarked, tanned pp, loose binding.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 253 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Owner name inside front wrapper and top of title-page. Foxing on first and last leaves. ; "Revised edition with additional material" ; 253 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Slight browning at edges of book cover. Damp stain along upper back edge of book cover. Light browning of page edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Ace Books Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, mild soiling, browning. 'Part of the first draft of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". Edited with an Introduction by Theodore Spencer. Revised edition with additional material and a Foreword by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon'. 220 pages. Ace H429. Photo on request.

Cloth/Boards. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Frontispiece (illustrator). New York, NY: New Directions. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1944). . Cloth/Boards. Sm 4to., 234 pp., cover frayed, faded, page toning .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover 1955 edition has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Unclipped jacket in new mylar cover has darkened spine, minor edge-wear. A nice copy, not ex-library. Have at it, Joyce fiends.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with a bruised tip to rear board, abraded paper thereat, scuffing to paper at tips, fore-edge, sunning along the edges, else with neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Light green, heavy paper over boards, black cloth-backed, gilt titling to spine. A fine full color portrait by Augustus John of the artist, dare I say, as a young man, at frontis. Introduction and Editorial Note by Theodore Spencer. Black-and-white photostat of an original page of the manuscript, printed on high-gloss paper, plus a reproduction of the pages of Joyce's college program, also in black-and-white. From the publisher's blurb, "STEPHEN HERO is an early version of Joyce s PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, probably completed about 1906. It is said that when the manuscript came back to Joyce after rejection by the twentieth publisher, he threw it into the fire, from which his wife was able to rescue only a portion." [6], 7-234 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the First Edition THUS of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Good to very good condition. Name and year (1947) on front fly leaf. Spine is faded. Cover corners are mildly bumped. Five lines of page references written on back free endpaper. Some underlining on several pages. 234 pages plus five illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Papeback in good condition. Covers are marked, scuffed and sunned. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, with tears at the spine ends. Spine is cocked. Page block is tanned and blemished. Hinge breaks at the covers. Binding is otherwise sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (1944) 234 pp. Original green paper covered boards w/ gilt title on black cloth spine. Top edges of covers darkened. Other edges a bit sunned. Leaves lightly age toned. Illust. w/ b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. top edge chips to an unclipped dj (3.50), clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First printing of this edition. Near fine in original cloth-covered boards with some offsetting on the endpapers and very good dust jacket with edgewear and sunning. 251 pages.

Boards. Condition: Good (No Dust Jacket). First American edition. 8vo, 234 pp., b/w plates. Spine cocked and faded, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with corners splitting, covers sunned and stained, foxing to covers and page edges, margins of plates foxed, light discoloration to endpapers, front hinge starting.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. GD+ Moderate edgewear, moderate creasing to spine & front cover, store-stamp to front fly page, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a solid copy, clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of the revised edition of 1956 with additional material by John J. Slocum & Herbert Cahoon, a very good tight copy with light age spotting to preliminary pages & page edges, light wear to wrapper edges, slight fading to the spine, light age spotting, not price clipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 210 pages. The book is a bit worn and tanned, with heavy foxing on the pages. The first page has a name in pen and a book company sticker. A reading copy. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Hard Cover -. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition / 1st Printing. Good, no dust jacket, spine and upper 2 inches of front & rear cover are faded, corners slightly bumped & rubbed, area of newspaper clipping offsetting on inside rear cover & endpaper. This copy is from the library of author, Thomas M. Coffey, and has his name written on the top of the front endpaper and there is some red pencil underlining throughout the book. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 234pp. 16 x 24cm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Clean pages though the cover is slightly shelf cocked and faded - still binding is tight. Prior owners name on front inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Owner name to front free-endpaper. Binding tight and straight, Inner pages crisp and clean. Dust Jacket is price-clipped, mild shelfwear. ; 8.8 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches.

First edition, OE Middleton's copy, octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 210pp, VG- (some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, v slight soiling to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 2nd owner's signature & date in ink to half title).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 253 pages. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with tanning, and a small tear along the top-edge. The page edges are moderately tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering, no obvious faults. 210 pp. 1960-dated ownership name to fr. end-paper, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked though tiny hints of edge-tanning to final leaves and ttop of text-block has trace of dustiness. Unclipped jacket generally clean but tanning to sp. and edges and sp. ends a little rubbed, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 1st issued 1944 with 2nd imp. 1946. 13 cm x 19.5 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good 1944 New Directions edition in fair price unclipped dust jacket ($3.50). Black cloth with faded gold lettering and deeply faded tanned at top of spine where jacket was missing a piece. Binding is tight and pages are tanned with previous bookseller markings on free front endpaper. some spotting on the page edges and at the edge of a handful of pages (primarily those with photos). Jacket heavily worn, tattered, and rear jacket has been reattached at spine with archival quality tape. Currently protected in an archival quality clear Brodart cover.Nice gift for the Joyce fan!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 210. Original publishers black cloth lettered gilt on spine. Neat name on front endpaper and slight creasing to covers, otherwise very good indeed in somewhat tanned, used and price-clipped, very good minus dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first paperback issue of the true first edition - published by Jonathan Cape in the Star Editions series for books "To be sold on the Continent of Europe only". This edition was published in the same year as the hardback issue. Edited with an Introduction by Theodore Spencer. ***Near fine in the original thin card blue covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and uncreased considering the age and fragile nature of the production. No significant creasing. No tears. No fading. Interior pages clean apart from a light stain mark to the title page which has also affects the opposite page. No foxing. Spine tight without any reading creases. No dustwrapper as issued. ***186mm x 126mm. 210 pages including an 11 page Introduction and an Editorial Note. ***'Stephen Hero is a posthumously-published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. Its published form reflects only a portion of an original manuscript, part of which was lost. Many of its ideas were used in composing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first paperback issue of the true first edition - published by Jonathan Cape in the Star Editions series for books "To be sold on the Continent of Europe only". This fragile wartime publication is in very nice clean and tight solid condition. Extremely uncommon thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 8vo. Orig. black cloth. 234 pp. [5] plates. Spine tilted, sunning to spine ends and top edges of boards, light soiling to cloth. Bookseller's label of Collier's London Book Shop to front pastedown. Age toning to interior. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends, corners and top edges, chafing to extremities, perforations to rear fore edge and front cover, age toned. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "This book is an early version of Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" probably completed in 1906. It is said when the manuscript came back to Joyce by the twentieth publisher to whom was submitted, he threw it into the fire., from which his wife was able to rescue only a portion of the whole work." (From the dust jacket) Thomas Spencer edited the manuscript from the Harvard College Library. This New Directions first edition is in very good condition with some discoloration along the top edge of the cloth covered boards, light bumps on the top and bottom of the spine edges., some slight soiling and some pencil price notations inside the front cover. The dust jacket is complete but has some chips and the spine is torn along the front side and scraped along the back. This work is quite scarce and a must have for the James Joyce collector.