The Cat and the Devil by James Joyce (31 results)

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Blachon (illustrator). Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Roger Blachon (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Gift inscription on title page, else very good in a very good (crease on front flap) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Spine slant, else very good in a very good (rippling to rear panel) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st US edition, pre-dating the UK 1st ed. Mustard cloth with black spine titling and magenta drawing of the devil and cat to front board. Boards imperceptivity discoloured at top spine. Illustrated in color by Richard Erdoes. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Richard Erdoes (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition (precedes British first by one year). Unpaginated with color illustrations on every page. Contents very tight, clean without mark. Mustard yellow cloth with red pictorial with devil and cat) is bright, clean, square. Tips gently rubbed. Unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket is clea, sharp with tanning along margins and flap folds. Spine is slightly tanned and red title letters are faded but readable. Very slight chips off top/bottom of spine. A delightful child's story by the iconic Irish author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection -.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EX LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). First Edition. DJ has a tear mended with tape. First edition. Text is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Erdoes, Richard (illustrated by) (illustrator). Mustard clothbound boards with red printed illustration on front and black printing to spine. The volume is totally tight and clean within the text of the book, but, very unfortunely, the previous owner has cut off most of the ffep and has also crossed out some writing with black ink making stripes on both inside boards and the back endpaper. Unpaginated. In a near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped. 1.

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus title page, unpaginated, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges, moderate scuffing & staining to eps, light to moderate soiling & creasing to pages sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some sl loss at extrems, moderate staining to flaps).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket placed in mylar for preservation. Previous owner's inscription on front free end page. Light staining to bottom of pages. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.8.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. a near fine first in dj. PREVIOUS OWNER'S GIFT inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Erdoes, Richard (illustrator). 1st edition US. 1st ptg. pre-dating the UK 1st ed., large 8vo, full mustard cloth with black spine titling and magenta drawing of the devil and cat to front board. Illustrated in color by Richard Edoes. From a letter to Joyce's grandson wherein he tells the tale of an agreement with the devil for a bridge over the Loire and how the local mayor gets the best of the bargain. Fine in near fine, unclipped dj, small green initials inked next to price, tiny scuff to spine titling, no other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. (32) pp., bound in pictorial boards with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped, slightly foxed and has a few tears. The boards have some at the corners, some spots on paste papapers and fly leaves, age toning. Very good copy with a more than acceptable jacket. 25 x 18 cm.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First UK Edition Thus. Publisher's pictorial paper boards printed in red, green, blue and black. A neat name on the FFEP otherwise VG indeed in the D/W which, unusually, is NOT price-clipped and with the spine just a touch faded. The D/W has a couple of short, closed tears to the bottom edge of the front panel (neatly repaired on the verso) and is lightly foxed/soiled to the white portion of the D/W (which show the cat). Beautifully illustrated by Gerald Rose. First edition thus of Joyce's version of the story of the cat of Beaugency. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gerald Rose (illustrator). First edition. A superb first edition of this brightly illustrated short story for children from Irish writer James Joyce. First edition. Illustrated with ten full colour pages and numerous in-text images. Not typically considered a writer of children's stories, Joyce wrote this work as a letter to his grandson Stephen. He retells the story of the cat of Beaugency, a town on the Loire, and the difficulties the town experienced when the Devil came to stay. Written by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. Illustrated by Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose, a British illustrator of children's books. In the original full paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American Edition. illustrated octavo. A very good to very good copy in a very good dust jacket spine darkened. Erdoes has drawn a full page drawing of the devil on the half title and inscribed it.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ERDOES, RICHARD (illustrator). First edition thus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964. First Edition Thus. Joyce crafted this short story in the form of a letter to his grandson written in 1936 and reprinted in book form by Grosset & Dunlap with illustrations by Richard Erdoes. A fanciful tale of building a bridge over the Loire in the medieval town of Beaugency. The bridge still exists. A very good copy in yellow boards with black spine lettering, square and tight, with a few pen marks on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine. The book is housed in a very good dustwrapper with slight loss of material at the spine ends and a few inconsequential chips, with the original price ($3.50) on the inside front flap.

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. 31. Illustrated in colour by Gerard Rose. Pictorial D.J. Glassine protected. Delightful short story based on a letter written by Joyce on the 10th August, 1936 to his grandson Stephen about the Lord Mayor of Beaugency (MonsieurAlfred Byrne) and the devil and a cat with which the Major tricks the devil after a faustian agreement to build a bridge over the Loire.

FIRST EDITION, colour and black & white illustrations by Gerald Rose, pp.[32], royal 8vo, original pictorial boards with an overall design by Rose, backstrip slightly knocked at head, spine leaning a little, dustjacket repeating board-design, backstrip panel a shade faded, short closed tear at head of rear flap-foldm very good. The author's charming comic fable, originally written in the form of a letter to his grandson, Stephen.

Condition: Fine. Size: small 4to.