Reading of Joyce

We are pleased to offer a selection of twenty-nine scholarly works on James Joyce, one of the icons of twentieth century literature. It is sold as a collection and will make an interesting addition to the library of all James Joyce lovers and collectors.

1. BEACH (Sylvia) Shakespeare and Company. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1959). 8vo, original boards, colour pictorial dust jacket. 229 pp., 5 line cuts and 39 b/w photographs on plates. Complete. First Edition. Legendary and entertaining account by the first publisher of Ulysses. Fine copy.

2. BUDGEN (Frank) James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses. London, Grayson & Grayson, (1934). 8vo, original half cream cloth over blue buckram boards, (without the dust jacket). 319 pp., 5 b/w plates (portrait of Joyce and 4 drawings to Ulysses by the author). Complete. First Edition. One of the best accounts of Joyce as a friend and writer. Some foxing to spine and edges. Good copy.

3. BURGESS (Anthony) Re Joyce. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, (1965). 8vo, original boards, colour pictorial dust jacket. 272 pp. Complete. First Edition. A vigorous, humorous and perceptive introduction, and a valuable companion to the reading of Joyce. Fine copy.

4. COLUM (Mary & Padraic) Our Friend James Joyce. London, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1959. 8vo, original boards, printed dust jacket. 239 pp. Complete. First Edition. The book describes meetings with Joyce, the established writer. Fine copy.

5. CRONIN (Anthony) A Question of Modernity. Essays on writing with special reference to James Joyce and Samuel Becket. London, Secker & Warburg, (1966). 8vo, original boards, printed dust jacket. 130 pp. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy. 6. CURRAN (C.P.) James Joyce Remembered. London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. X-1219 pp., 4 b/w plates. Complete. First Edition. A perceptive memoir of Joyce by a life-long friend. Very faint wear to the dust jacket. Very good copy.

7. ELLMANN (Richard) James Joyce. New York, Oxford University Press, 1959. 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. XI-842 pp., frontispiece and 16 b/w plates. Complete. First Edition. A standard biography compiled with great thoroughness. Very faint wear to the dust jacket. Very good copy.

8. ELLMANN (Richard) Ulysses on the Liffey. London, Faber & Faber, (1972). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. XVIII-208 pp., frontispiece and 8 b/w plates. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy.

9. ELLMANN (Richard) Four Dubliners. Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Backett. London, Hamish Hamilton, (1987). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. X-106 pp., 28 full-page b/w plates. Complete. First British Edition. Fine copy.

10. FITCH (Noel Riley) Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation. A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties. London, Souvenir Press (E & A) Ltd., (1984). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. 447 pp., a few illustrations in the text and 16 b/w plates. Complete. First British Edition. Fine copy.

11. GEBLER DAVIES (Stan) James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist. London, Davis- Poynter, (1975). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. 328 pp., 14 b/w photographic illustrations on plates. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy.

12. GILBERT (Stuart) James Joyce’s Ulysses. A Study. London, Faber & Faber, (1952). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 407 pp. Complete. Second revised edition (first published in 1930). The work gives an account of the Homeric parallels and other structural features as explained by Joyce himself. Fine copy.

13. GOLDBERG (S.L.) The Classical Temper. A Study of James Joyce’s Ulysses. London, Chatto & Windus, 1961. 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 346 pp. Complete. First Edition. The book sees Joyce as a novelist in the classical manner. Fine copy.

14. GORMAN (Herbert) James Joyce. A Definitive Biography. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1949). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. 354 pp., frontispiece-drawing by Augustus John and 8 stunning full-page photomontages specially made by G.R. Morris. Complete. New edition of this major biography first published in 1941. The work was written with Joyce’s help. Faint wear to the dust jacket slightly chipped at head and bottom of spine. Very good copy.

15. HEALEY (George Harris) The Dublin Diaries of Stanislaus Joyce. London, Faber & Faber, (1962). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 119 pp. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy.

16. HUTCHINS (Patricia) James Joyce’s World. London, Methuen and Co., Ltd., (1957). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. 256 pp., 2 line and 37 half-tone photographic illustrations on plates. Complete. First Edition. The book recounts a pilgrimage to visit the various places in which Joyce lived; most of the material given in an earlier book by the same author, « James Joyce’s Dublin », is reproduced here. Light wear to the dust jacket (mostly spine). Very good copy.

17. JOYCE (Stanislaus) My Brother’s Keeper. Edited by Richard Ellmann with a preface by T.S. Eliot. London, Faber & Faber, (1958). 8vo, original boards, illustrated dust jacket. 257 pp., 4 b/w plates (including the frontispiece). Complete. First Edition of this (uncompleted) memoir by Joyce’s younger brother. Light wear to the dust jacket. Very good copy.

18. LEVIN (Harry) James Joyce. A Critical Introduction. London, Faber & Faber, (1944). 8vo, original boards, no dust jacket. 168 pp. Complete. First British Edition (first published in Norfolk, Conn., 1941). Ownership signature in blue ink on fly-leaf. Good copy.

19. LEVIN (Harry) James Joyce. A Critical Introduction. London, Faber & Faber, (1960). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 207 pp. Complete. New revised edition. Fine copy.

20. LILLYMAN (W.J.) The Interior Monologue in James Joyce and Otto Ludwig. In Comparative Literature, volume XXIII, Winter 1971, number 1, published by the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Large 8vo, original printed card wrappers. Complete. Pp. 45-54. Very good copy.

21. LITZ (A. Walton) The Art of James Joyce. Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. New York, Oxford University Press, 1964. 8vo, original card wrappers. X-150 pp., frontispiece-plate showing first draft of the opening to Finnegans Wake. Complete. First Edition as a Galaxy Book. Careful analysis of Joyce’s methods of composition based on years of study of the author’s manuscripts. Fine copy.

22. MADDOX (Brenda) Nora. A Biography of Nora Joyce. London, Hamish Hamilton, (1988). 8vo, original boards, colour illustrated dust jacket. XVII-589 pp., 42 b/w illustrations on plates. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy.

23. MAGALANER (Marvin) & KAIN (Richard M.) Joyce. The Man, the Work, the Reputation. London, John Calder, (1957). 8vo, original boards, colour pictorial dust jacket. X-377 pp., frontispiece-portrait of Joyce by Sean O’Sullivan. Complete. First British Edition. Assembles and comments upon a large body of critical opinion, and contains a very good bibliography. Fine copy.

24. MAGALANER (Marvin) Time of Apprenticeship. The Fiction of Young James Joyce. London, New York, Toronto, Abelard-Schuman, (1959). 8vo, original boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192 pp., photographic frontispiece-plate. First Edition. Contains interesting notes on the factual basis of Joyce’s stories, and reproduces the first version of « The Sisters »; the account of the sources of « The Dead » is most valuable. Fine copy.

25. SCHWARZ (Daniel R.) Reading James Joyce. (London), Macmillan Press, (1987). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 293 pp. Complete. First Edition. Fine copy. 26. SEMMLER (Clement) For the Uncanny Man. Essays, mainly literary. Melbourne, Camberra, Sidney, F.W. Cheshire, (1963). 8vo, original boards, pictorial dust jacket. 188 pp. Complete. First Edition, inscribed by the author. Contains an interesting account of Joyce’s impact on Australia with a long essay « James Joyce in Australia » (pp. 12-92). Also includes « Notes on the Themes and Language of Finnegans Wake », « James Joyce in Zurich », « Radio and James Joyce ». Fine copy.

27. STALEY (Thomas F.) James Joyce Today. Essays on the Major Works. Bloomington & London, Indiana University Press, 1966. 8vo, original boards, pictorial dust jacket. VIII-183 pp. Complete. First Edition. Collection of essays by James F. Atherton, William Blisset, Clive Hart, Herbert Howarth, Richard M. Kain and others. Abrasion to head of spine of dust jacket. Very good copy.

28. SULLIVAN (Kevin) Joyce among the Jesuits. New York, Columbia University Press, 1958. 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 259 pp. Complete. First edition in book form. Provides information about the background to Joyce’s education. Fine copy.

29. TINDALL (William York) A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce. (London), Thames & Hudson, (1959). 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. 304 pp. Complete. First Edition. Scholarly but very readable account of all Joyce’s works, placing emphasis on his use of symbols. Fine copy.

Price of the collection: 1.000,00 euros

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