stephen hero part first draft von joyce james theodore spencer (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

Paperback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.