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Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ. Blue cloth cover is cracked on the ends of the spine, top margin and spine very sunned. Marks on endpaper, pages are bright and unmarked, good binding, clean plates of the original manuscript.
Seller: Losaw Service, Lenox Dale, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Toning to text and spine otherwise unmarked, clean. Tight and square. No other printings stated
Seller: Stone Soup Books Inc, Waynesboro, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: New Directions. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1944). . Cloth/Boards. Sm 4to., 234 pp., cover frayed, faded, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$15.75 + shipping
Description: New York. 1944. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Some Discoloration to Boards Along The Top and Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Worn Boards. No Dustjacket. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library, and introduction and editorial note, by Theodore Spencer. 234 pages. hardcover. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. keywords: Literature Ireland Joyce Ireland Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. The 383 pages which first came to light were edited by the late Theodore Spencer and published by New Directions in 1944 through the courtesy of the Harvard College Library; they gave a long, connected section of the original - a sequence complete in itself. The first printing was immediately exhausted and a second, very large one lasted only several years. When twenty-five additional manuscript pages, forming a complete short incident, were found, New Directions held up reprinting so that they could be included. Edited by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon, the Joyce bibliographers, who also contribute an interesting foreword, the new section is here printed with the permission of the Yale University Library. It throws new light on Joyce's attitudes and, like the rest, makes excellent reading in itself. inventory #4916 Some Discoloration to Boards Along The Top and Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Worn Boards. No Dustjacket.
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner inscription. Wear to paper at corners. Name in ink.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in black quarter buckram and faded green boards, sans DW; spine ends worn; corners bumped and worn; 1 of 3000 copies; edited by Theodore Spencer; black & white plates; 234pp. Priced accordingly.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 234 pages, edited and introduction by Theodore Spencer. Black cloth, gilt on spine. Upper and lower portions of the spine sunned, slight wear, a few soil spots on the top edge. Edition not indicated. Text clean.
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth binding with gold colored print on spine. Top edge of front cover and spine are sunned. Otherwise very sound, and unmarked. 234 pages. Black dust jacket with white and green print on cover and spine. One inch section missing front top spine end. Some material loss at tips. DJ is sunned and rear edges are taped with clear tape. Dust jacket is not price clipped ($3.50). DJ in mylar.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. STEPHEN HERO. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$20.88 + shipping
Description: STEPHEN HERO, New Directions, 1944, first edition, spine and upper sections of front and rear cover lightened, else a tight vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner inscription. Wear to paper at bottom corners.Jacket is missing on spine. Reminder of jacket is present and has edgewear. Price-clipped.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Spine lettering faded; spine ends very slightly worn.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: top edge chips to an unclipped dj (3.50), clean text.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer". First edition, first printing. In yellow boards, and quarter black cloth, slightly edge-worn, corners chipped, sunned around the edges, otherwise good, straight copy. Spine has slightly loose hinges, lettering in gilt. Endpapers and cut edges slightly tanned. Text block lightly tanned, with black and white photographs and copies of letters etc. Collectable.
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper somewhat toned; spine sunned; a very good copy, lacking the dustjacket. Edition of 3000 copies. 'Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer'
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, NY, 1944.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chipping along foot of jacket spine. A nice, solid copy. ; B & W plates; 8vo; 234 pages
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.65 + shipping
Description: First US edition. 234 pp. + 5 plates. Publisher's black cloth, dust jacket. Spine ends and edges of boards quite heavily faded, owner's signature on first free end paper. Condition Very Good. Dust jacket quite severely chipped and torn, spine and rear faded, verso of dust jacket with several long, mended tears. Condition Poor.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Description: 234 pgs., 8vo. The early ($3.50 jkt. price) version of Portrait of the Artist, with informative 17 pg. intro. by Theodore Spencer. Black cloth binding is very fresh, as is the bright gold title down the spine, owner name inked on flyleaf. In a somewhat damaged sleeve, lacking part of its spine-wrap, including some print there, and with 2 small losses on front panel. Two leaves within the book have occasional underlining, pgs. 77-80. Otherwise a good copy of a scarce book. Good condition, faults noted, and in a partial original dust jacket First printing of this material, from MSS in Harvard College Library.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James & Theodore Spencer (ed.). Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$34.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth boards sunned on spine and at top-edges of each board, slightly grubby; Pages age-toned, slight spotting on edges and endpapers, no ownership marks, B&W plates; Binding tight. 'Stephen Hero' is a part of the first draft of Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'; this version has been edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 234 pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Collectible - Acceptable - First U.S. edition - reading copy only - damaged /worn /marked. May be ex-libris Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.30 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 234 pp., b/w plates. Spine cocked and faded, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with corners splitting, covers sunned and stained, foxing to covers and page edges, margins of plates foxed, light discoloration to endpapers, front hinge starting.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket has tears and is missing pieces at spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good, no dust jacket, spine and upper 2 inches of front & rear cover are faded, corners slightly bumped & rubbed, area of newspaper clipping offsetting on inside rear cover & endpaper. This copy is from the library of author, Thomas M. Coffey, and has his name written on the top of the front endpaper and there is some red pencil underlining throughout the book. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 234pp. 16 x 24cm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean pages though the cover is slightly shelf cocked and faded - still binding is tight. Prior owners name on front inside
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With jacket that is in two pieces with spine entirely missing (under protective Brodart mylar).
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by New Directions in 1944. Bound in publishers black cloth, A very good copy with light fading to the spine and a touch of wear to the top edge of the spine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This copy has some aging or light soiling on the covers. The corners are bumped and the boards show slightly. There is also light edgewear and some interior foxing, mainly on endpapers though there is light toning along the edges throughout. The defects are largely a resulr of the inexpensive publishing materials. This copy is square and securely bound with no tears or parting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages; This is the first American edition of part (the mss is incomplete) of Joyce's original draft of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was edited by Theodore Spencer from the original manuscript in the Harvard Library. This version makes an interesting comparison with the first published edition of the work.
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, JAMES.; EDITED BY THEODORE SPENCERNY. STEPHEN HERO. A NEW DIRECTION BOOK, NY, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: STEPHAN HERO, A PART OF THE FIRST DRAFT OF, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A JOUNG MAN. FRONT ENDSHEETS FOXED, COVERS ON BOTH SIDE SUNNED, SLIPCASE ON BOTH EDGES IN THE MIDDLE V SHAPE CUT OUT TO PULL THE BOOK ?
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light wear to spine heel, otherwise a very good copy in a near very good price-clipped dustjacket with a 1? tear at the top of the front panel and some light edgewear. Edited by Theodore Spencer. 8vo. 234 pp.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
James Joyce; Spencer, Theodore [Editor]. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$70.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good 1944 New Directions edition in fair price unclipped dust jacket ($3.50). Black cloth with faded gold lettering and deeply faded tanned at top of spine where jacket was missing a piece. Binding is tight and pages are tanned with previous bookseller markings on free front endpaper. some spotting on the page edges and at the edge of a handful of pages (primarily those with photos). Jacket heavily worn, tattered, and rear jacket has been reattached at spine with archival quality tape. Currently protected in an archival quality clear Brodart cover.Nice gift for the Joyce fan!
Seller: Third Person Books, Elk Grove Village, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$73.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 234. Paper over boards stamped in gilt (pulled at the top off the spine). Poet Barbara Howes' copy with her signature on the endpaper and bookplate laid in.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust Jacket Only. 8vo. DJ Good with losses, marginal tears.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
JOYCE, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good with some fading and edgewear to the tops and bottoms of the boards in fair, incomplete dustwrapper lacking the spine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer, 234pp., bound in 1/4 black cloth over lime green paper covered boards, previous owner's name and date, fading and staining to boards edges otherwise a good copy
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 234 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Edited by Theodore Spencer. A very good+ copy, top edge lightly toned, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, boards bright and tight in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips at the folds.
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
James Joyce; Editor Theodore Spencer. Stephen Hero. New Directions Books, New York, 1944.
Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "This book is an early version of Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" probably completed in 1906. It is said when the manuscript came back to Joyce by the twentieth publisher to whom was submitted, he threw it into the fire., from which his wife was able to rescue only a portion of the whole work." (From the dust jacket) Thomas Spencer edited the manuscript from the Harvard College Library. This New Directions first edition is in very good condition with some discoloration along the top edge of the cloth covered boards, light bumps on the top and bottom of the spine edges., some slight soiling and some pencil price notations inside the front cover. The dust jacket is complete but has some chips and the spine is torn along the front side and scraped along the back. This work is quite scarce and a must have for the James Joyce collector.
Seller: Big E's Books, Lake City, FL, U.S.A.
Joyce, James; Spencer, Theodore. STEPHEN HERO. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edited of this early draft of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, taken from Joyce's original manuscript now held by Harvard. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN is a quintessential 20th-century Bildungsroman. Blending autobiography and fiction, it follows the life of a disillusioned college student and aspiring artist as he discovers the beauty and cruelty of the world. The manuscript of STEPHEN HERO, an early version of PORTRAIT, differs substantially from the published version; this edition reproduces the work contained in that primary source. 9.25'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($3.50) green and black pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 234 pages. Jacket with some edgewear and a bit of chipping, tape repairs to verso upper edges. Binding with light edgewear. Tight. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A clean copy of the First Printing in an attractive jacket with some mild wear, dustiness. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Scarce: only 3,000 copies printed. VG+/VG in dark black woven cloth stamped brightly in gold on the spine. In a very good dustjacket with a fingernail-sized chip at the top left side of the spine and a 1" vertical tear. Touch of soiling to the rear panel. With the original price of $3.50 on the inside flap of the jacket. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 234pp. Pinpoint rubbing and trivial fading to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original, unclipped dustwrapper, toned on lighter portions and with a small (1/8") loss at base of spine, not affecting any lettering. An attractive copy. An early draft of "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man," published posthumously. The British edition preceded the American by some months.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$179.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1944, First Edition, First Printing, New Directions. This is a part of the first draft of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer. Introduction and Editorial Note by Theodore Spencer. Hardcover. Dustjacket is in poor condition with the front unclipped flap removed from the front of jacket. Jacket is torn from wear . Black boards, a bit worn with binding smudged at bottom. Some underlining from prior owner.
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Stephen Hero. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first US edition. Clean, bright pages. Some age-toning to edges. Some wear to edges. Wear to corners. Some bumping to spine ends. 1 inch diagonal closed tear to title/copyright page. Fair to good dust jacket. Not price-clipped. General wear to edges and extremities. Some age-toning. Some light foxing to back flap. 1/2 inch area of loss to middle of front cover adjacent to spine. Roughly 1 inch by 1/2 inch area of loss and another 1/3 inch area of loss to top of spine. Scarce first US edition of an important early work by James Joyce, a precursor to his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1944.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. DJ in archival cover large chip and tear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First book edition. A few photographic illustrations. 234 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richard Clurman's Personal Copy. A few photographic illustrations. 234 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth hard cover.tall Octavo.a portrait of Joyce by Augustuuf John.2 other plates.233 pages very good ,strong and clean copy.Remnants of split and chipped Jacket put together in Mylar on the book. original price present . scarce item.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$274.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Several chips and tears. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James; Spencer, Theodore (ed). Stephen Hero. New Directions, New York, 1944.
Price: US$275.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: blue cloth spine, gilt lettering, green papered boards, dust jacket, mylar wrapped, 234 pp, tear and chips on dj, inscribed by owner to front endpaper, cover and spine slightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France