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[JAMES, Henry]. Keynes, Geoffrey.

Henry James in Cambridge.
$35.00
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons (1967). First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. One of 1000 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press.
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[JOHNSON, James Weldon]. Redding, Saunders.

James Weldon Johnson and the Pastoral Tradition.
$27.50
(np): Mississippi Quarterly, 1975. First edition. [6 pp]. Some light rust around staples, else near fine in wrappers. An offprint, with specially printed covers, from THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY, XXVIII:4 (Fall 1975).
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[JOYCE, James]. Appel, Alfred Jr.

James Joyce: An Appreciation.
$15.00
Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1964. First edition. 5 pp. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers.
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[JOYCE, James]. Berrone, Louis.

James Joyce in Padua.
$20.00
NY: Random House (1977). First edition. 146 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Two previously-unpublished essays by Joyce, composed as part of an examination for a teaching position in the Italian school system in 1912.
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[JOYCE, James]. Campbell, Joseph and Robinson, Henry Morton.

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake.
$90.00
Cutchogue: Bucaneer Books (1976). First printing of this reissue. 297 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 copies.
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[JOYCE, James]. Cato, Bob and Vitiello, Greg.

Joyce Images.
$15.00
NY: Norton (1994). First edition. 112 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning along top edges. Introduction by Anthony Burgess.
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[JOYCE, James]. Freund, Gisele.

Three Days with Joyce: Photographs by Gisele Freund.
$25.00
NY: Persea (1985). First US edition. 70 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Richard Ellman.
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[JOYCE, James]. Hayashi, Tetsumaro.

James Joyce: Research Opportunities and Dissertation Abstracts.
$27.50
Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company (1985). First edition. 342 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued.
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[JOYCE, James]. Hayman, David. guest ed.

TriQuarterly 38: In the wake of the Wake.
$35.00
Evanston: TriQuarterly (1977). 256 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with tanning to page edges. Work by de Campos, Roche, Cixous, Sollers, Brooke-Rose, Cage, Sorrentino, Gass, Calvino and many others.
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[JOYCE, James]. Joyce, Stanislaus.

My Brother’s Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years.
$20.00
NY: Viking, 1958. First edition. 266 pp w/index. Splash marks to top edge, else near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a few shallow chips. Edited, with introduction and notes by Richard Ellman. Preface by T.S. Eliot.
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[JOYCE, James]. Levin, Harry.

James Joyce: A Critical Introduction.
$125.00
Norfolk: New Directions (1941). First edition. x + 240 pp w/bibliography & index. Foxing to top edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to spine and a few short edge-tears to the rear panel. Playwright Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK” on the front free endpaper, along with his inked initials.
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[JOYCE, James]. Liddy, James.

Esau My Kingdom for a Drink: Homage to James Joyce on his LXXX Birthday.
$20.00
Dublin & NY: Dolmen Press/Gotham Book Mart (1962). First edition. 15 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral price-clipped (leaving the US price) dust jacket that is sunned to the extrems
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[JOYCE, James]. McCarthy, Patrick A.

Ulysses: Portals of Discovery.
$20.00
Boston: Twayne (1990). First edition. 144 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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[JOYCE, James]. Sawyer-Laucanno.

The World’s Words: A Semiotic Reading of James Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE and Rabelais’ GARGANTUA ET PANTAGRUEL.
$35.00
Paris & London: Alyscamps Press, 1993. First edition. 41 pp w/references. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Color reproduction of a painting of Joyce as a frontis.
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[JOYCE, James]. Smith Paul Jordan.

A Key to the ULYSSES of James Joyce.
$27.50
[San Francisco]: City Lights (1970). First US edition. 89 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cook 88.
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[JOYCE, James]. Svevo, Italo.

James Joyce.
$20.00
[San Francisco]: City Lights Books (1972). Third printing. [58 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Italian by Stanislaus Joyce.
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[JOYCE, James]. Thompson, John H.

Bio-biblio-graphiti of James Joyce gulled from the pages of FINNEGANS WAKE and prepared with meaner intercessions by John H. Thompson.
$20.00
NY: Poetry Center, 1950. First edition. [4 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
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[JOYCE, James]. Werner, Craig Hansen.

Dubliners: A Pluralistic World.
$45.00
Boston: Twayne (1988). First edition. 137 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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[KAFKA, Franz]. Bauer, Johann.

Kafka and Prague.
$50.00
NY: Praeger (1971). First US edition. 4to. 191 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs by Isidor Pollak. Translated by P.S. Falla. Uncommon in such condition.
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[KAFKA, Franz]. Goodman, Paul.

Kafka’s Prayer.
$45.00
NY: Vanguard Press (1947). First edition. xiii + 265 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket with two tears and chips to crown of spine.
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[KEROUAC, Jack]. Charters, Ann.

A Bibliography of the Works of Jack Kerouac (Jean Louise Lebris De Kerouac) 1939-1967.
$25.00
NY: Phoenix Bookshop (1967). First edition. 99 pp w/indexes. Sunning to spine and along top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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[KEROUAC, Jack]. Gifford, Barry.

Kerouac’s Town: On the Second Anniversary of his Death.
$20.00
Santa Barbara: Capra, 1973. First trade edition. 30 pp. Covers lightly toned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Gifford’s journal entries, illustrated with photographs by Marshall Clements. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #12.
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[KEROUAC, Jack]. Montgomery, John.

Jack Kerouac: A Memoir In Which Is Revealed Secret Lives & West Coast Whispers, Being The Confessions of Henry Morley, Alex Fairbrother, & John Montgomery.
$35.00
Fresno: The Giligia Press (1970). First edition. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 2000 copies. A memoir in two “takes” by a correspondent and sometime friend of Kerouac's whose letters and person inspired characters in several of Kerouac's novels, including Henry Morley in DHARMA BUMS. Original prospectus accompanies.
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[KEROUAC, Jack]. Montgomery, John.

Kerouac West Coast: A Bohemian Pilot Detailed Navigational Instructions.
$20.00
Palo Alto: Fels & Fern Press, 1976. First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Gilbert, Sandra M.

Acts of Attention: The Poems of D.H. Lawrence.
$35.00
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (1972). First edition. xiv + 327 pp w/index. Ink stamp to top edge, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Laid into this copy is a TLS dated 12 October 1983 from Gilbert to Al [Gelpi] in part presenting this book.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Kenmare, Dallas.

Fire-Bird: A Study of D.H. Lawrence.
$22.50
London: James Barrie, 1951. First edition. 81 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. “Printed in Great Britain” statement pasted to verso of title page. A study of Lawrence’s poems.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Kenmare, Dallas.

Fire-Bird: A Study of D.H. Lawrence.
$22.50
London: James Barrie, 1951. First edition. vi + 81 pp. “Printed in Great Britain” sticker to verso of title page, which shows through to the recto, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Oates, Joyce Carol.

The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence.
$12.50
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973. Second trade paperback printing. 60 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Oates, Joyce Carol.

The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence.
$100.00
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 60 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 154b.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Olson, Charles.

D.H. Lawrence, & The High Temptation of the Mind.
$15.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition. [14 pp]. Hint of sunning to spine, else fine in stapled wrappers. Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the press. An essay that first appeared in the Chicago Review.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Olson, Charles.

D.H. Lawrence, & The High Temptation of the Mind.
$45.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered issue. [13 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Very near fine unprinted dust jacket. A New Year’s greetings for friends of the press. One of of 150 numbered copies. An essay that first appeared in the Chicago Review.
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[LAWRENCE, D.H.]. Olson, Charles.

D.H. Lawrence, & The High Temptation of the Mind.
$75.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, lettered issue. [13 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine unprinted orange dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. One of 26 lettered copies. A New Year’s greetings for friends of the press.
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