A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (First Edition) by Joyce, James - 1916

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition . Decorated Blue Cloth. Fine Book/Dustjacket. Frontispiece. [Vi], 378 Pp + 7 Pp Ads At Rear. First Printing, One Of 3948 Copies, Blue Cloth, White Lettering, Gilt Design. An Unusually Bright, Unworn, Unrubbed Book, Entirely Original, Without Any Restoration. With The Rae Dust Jacket Which Has Undergone Professional Restoration, Including Replacement Of Bottom Half Of Spine Panel And A Large Chip At The Bottom Of The Rear Panel, Also Reattachment Of Chip At Top Of Spine, Reattachment Of Split Along Rear Spine Edge, And Repair Of Minor Edge Chips; The White Surface Has Been Retouched, Leaving The Original Lettering; The Publisher's Name Has Been Added At Bottom Of Spine When The Bottom Was Replaced.

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. First Edition. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And Issued In April 1945]. First Issue [1941] Paper Labels, Printed Text On Front Label Being 2.7 Cm Wide [It Is Believed That Copies With A 3 Cm Width Print Line Were Issued Only With Some 1945 Bindings]. First Issue Dj With Name Correctly Spelled As Nabokov On Cover And Flaps [ A Variant Dj With Spelling "Nabokoff" Was Apparently Printed First, But, Confusingly, Issued Only On The 1945 Issue In Smooth Red Cloth, Probably When The Publisher Ran Out Of Corrected Jackets]. [For A Bibliographic Description See Vnbiblio]. Bright And Fresh, Spine And Cover Labels White And As New. Jacket Is Nearly Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50] And Only… Read More

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cover Plate By Leonora Carrington, Interior Illustrations By Pablo Weisz. 52 Pp. Light Green Cloth With Paste-On Illustration By Carrington, Gilt Spine Lettering. #10 Of 150 Copies Designed And Printed By Noel Young For Capra Press, Bound By Emily Paine, Signed By Leonora Carrington. Fine, No Wear Or Fading, 2" X 3/16" Area Of Light Foxing In Gutter Near Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Do Dust Jacket, As Issued.

Boston and New York / Riverside Press, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition, First Issue, First State 1st Printing. Slate-grey Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before Rear Free Endpaper. (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Embossed Slate Grey Cloth With Silver. Near Fine. First Trade Printing, First Issue, First State On All Known Points. Collation: 1(4), 3-22 (6) As Required For First Printing. Binding With Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand, The State #1 Per Woodbridge, (No Known Priority.) Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology… Read More

New York: Roger L. Stevens Circa 1959 Or 1960, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Studio Copy Of The Original Script For The Three Act Version By Gore Vidal, With No Other Authors Credited. Black Wraparound Card Covers Lettered In Silver, "Hart Stenographic Bureau" Name/Address/Phone At Top, Title At Center.Title Page With Wm. Morris Agency Sticker And Roger L Stevens Name And Address At Bottom (No Copyright Notice Or Date But Probably Circa 1959/1960). Cast Of Characters Page, Act One Scene Page, 36 Pp,26 Pp, 23 Pp (Each Act Numbered Separately By Act, Scene And Page). Inked Number "44" At Top Of Title Page Which Apparently Is The Tracking Number For A Limited Distribution. Our Researches Indicate Only One Institutional Holding, In Arizona.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition . Decorated Blue Cloth. Fine Book/Dustjacket. Frontispiece. [Vi], 378 Pp + 7 Pp Ads At Rear. First Printing, One Of 3948 Copies, Blue Cloth, White Lettering, Gilt Design. An Unusually Bright, Unworn, Unrubbed Book, Entirely Original, Without Any Restoration. With The Rae Dust Jacket Which Has Undergone Professional Restoration, Including Replacement Of Bottom Half Of Spine Panel And A Large Chip At The Bottom Of The Rear Panel, Also Reattachment Of Chip At Top Of Spine, Reattachment Of Split Along Rear Spine Edge, And Repair Of Minor Edge Chips; The White Surface Has Been Retouched, Leaving The Original Lettering; The Publisher's Name Has Been Added At Bottom Of Spine When The Bottom Was Replaced.

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. First Edition. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And Issued In April 1945]. First Issue [1941] Paper Labels, Printed Text On Front Label Being 2.7 Cm Wide [It Is Believed That Copies With A 3 Cm Width Print Line Were Issued Only With Some 1945 Bindings]. First Issue Dj With Name Correctly Spelled As Nabokov On Cover And Flaps [ A Variant Dj With Spelling "Nabokoff" Was Apparently Printed First, But, Confusingly, Issued Only On The 1945 Issue In Smooth Red Cloth, Probably When The Publisher Ran Out Of Corrected Jackets]. [For A Bibliographic Description See Vnbiblio]. Bright And Fresh, Spine And Cover Labels White And As New. Jacket Is Nearly Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50] And Only… Read More

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cover Plate By Leonora Carrington, Interior Illustrations By Pablo Weisz. 52 Pp. Light Green Cloth With Paste-On Illustration By Carrington, Gilt Spine Lettering. #10 Of 150 Copies Designed And Printed By Noel Young For Capra Press, Bound By Emily Paine, Signed By Leonora Carrington. Fine, No Wear Or Fading, 2" X 3/16" Area Of Light Foxing In Gutter Near Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Do Dust Jacket, As Issued.

Boston and New York / Riverside Press, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition, First Issue, First State 1st Printing. Slate-grey Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before Rear Free Endpaper. (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Embossed Slate Grey Cloth With Silver. Near Fine. First Trade Printing, First Issue, First State On All Known Points. Collation: 1(4), 3-22 (6) As Required For First Printing. Binding With Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand, The State #1 Per Woodbridge, (No Known Priority.) Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology… Read More

New York: Roger L. Stevens Circa 1959 Or 1960, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Studio Copy Of The Original Script For The Three Act Version By Gore Vidal, With No Other Authors Credited. Black Wraparound Card Covers Lettered In Silver, "Hart Stenographic Bureau" Name/Address/Phone At Top, Title At Center.Title Page With Wm. Morris Agency Sticker And Roger L Stevens Name And Address At Bottom (No Copyright Notice Or Date But Probably Circa 1959/1960). Cast Of Characters Page, Act One Scene Page, 36 Pp,26 Pp, 23 Pp (Each Act Numbered Separately By Act, Scene And Page). Inked Number "44" At Top Of Title Page Which Apparently Is The Tracking Number For A Limited Distribution. Our Researches Indicate Only One Institutional Holding, In Arizona.