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Gorman.. James Joyce: His First Forty Years.. Geoffrey Bles, London 1926, 1926.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Octavo. (ii), 238pp. Red cloth with printed paper spine label. Covers slightly rubbed and dulled with slight spots to rear, spine slightly cocked with slight fading to label, occasional scattered foxing to contents, otherwise very good. Ink name to endpaper. No jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Gorman, Herbert S. James Joyce - His First Forty Years. Geoffrey Bles, 1926.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Name On Front Endpaper; Otherwise Unmarked. Robust Hardback. Minor Handling To Boards. Title Label On Spine Tanned.
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Gorman, Herbert S.. James Joyce: His First Forty Years. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. [4], 238 pages. Tan paper covered boards with burgundy cloth spine. Paper title label on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Joyce and a photograph of the first page of Ulysses in text. A few spots and to the paper. The cloth spine is worn and a little faded. Toning to the right front flyleaf and rear flyleaf. "Isseido" small red bookseller label in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Number 168 hand written under the title page. A vertical line of Asian language characters written in light pen on the blank verso of the frontispiece. First published in New York by B. W. Huebsch 1924. Reissued by Viking Press and B. W. Huebsch in 1925. Published in England by Geoffrey Bles in 1926 with American sheets but a new title page (John Slocums' Bibliography of James Joyce page 76).
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Gorman, Herbert. James Joyce __ His First Forty Years. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926.
Price: US$44.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red cloth spine paper label gray boards no dust jacket 238 pp first UK edition owner's name in ink on front endpaper spine faded and soiled endpapers browned.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
GORMAN, Herbert S.. JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS.. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp 238. Original publisher's red cloth over grey paper boards, lettered black on white spine label. Portrait frontispiece, with a selected list of articles on 'Ulysses'. Slight foxing to endpapers, with slight rubbing and slight marking to cloth otherwise sound, very good with clean text.
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
Herbert S. Gorman. James Joyce. Geoffrey Bles Ltd, UK, 1926.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is more expositional than critical. Its primary purpose is to furnish an idea of what James Joyce has done in letters with particular emphasis on " Ulysses". There is a previous owners name in ink on the front end paper. The spine and boards are grubby with wear to its edges and the text block is foxed and grubby. A good tight reading copy.
Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom
JOYCE JAMES. JAMES JOYCE HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926.
Price: US$237.31 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publishers original brick-red cloth with paper label to the spine. A slightly dusty top edge and a little foxing to the fore-edge otherwise a VG++ copy in like 7/6 net D/W with a touch of fraying at the spine tips and a browned spine. An uncommon book in the UK first edition. The first book about James Joyce.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
JAMES JOYCE. Herbert S.Gorman.. James Joyce. His First Forty Years.. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition, issued two years after the original American edition and printed from those US sheets. 8vo. [ii], 238pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Edges a little spotted, and the top edge dust soiled. Some light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, with some quite noticeable toning to the spine panel, and a touch of wear to several extremities with a single miniscule area of loss to the base of the spine panel. The first full-length study of Joyce, published four years after 'Ulysses'.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Joyce, James & Gorman, H.S.. JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS. Geoffrey Bles, 1926.
Price: US$319.00 + shipping
Description: JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS, Geoffrey Bles, 1926, first English edition, t.p.e.'s dust-soiled, else a bright vg/vg+ copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some dust soil and other light wear. A most uncommon book and allegedly the first book about Joyce.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.