Two Tales of Shem and Shaun by Joyce, James - 1932

Faber and Faber, 1932. Hardcover. Good. 1932. First Edition. 45 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front pastedown. Small bookshop label to rear pastedown. Cover has mild shelf wear with some bumping and tearing of paper to corners and rubbing to spine ends. Section of paper missing from lower spine. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

First edition. In very good condition, clean and unmarked in a poor dust jacket, heavily chipped, with complete spine loss, panels separated, 2s 6d prices intact on flap.

Blue paper covered boards, dark blue titles, top edge of spine dented, base chipped, spine partly split, top edge darkened, front board slightly faded and a bit grubby. Age toning on ffep

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Slender hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 45 pp. First trade edition. Mild soiling to boards. A handsome very good copy in about very good price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper suffers from edge chipping, particularly at the spine crown.

Faber & Faber, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Very Bright Very Good Plus Jacket.First Edition (1932). Fresh Copy With a Tiny Bit of Chipping..

Faber & Faber, 1932. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Boards, dj, VG/G+. 45pp, spine of the dustjacket a little rubbed & with a slight amount of loss at the head ( loss of the letter T from Two ) & tail, small snag to the top of the spine of the book, slightly worn along the edges, otherwise a nice copy. Contains 2 short works - 'The Mookes and the Gripes' and 'The Ondt and the Grasshopper', which had originally been published in France in 1929 by the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies. The 'work in progress' was Finnegan's Wake.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932 . First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5". None. The first trade edition of these two short tales from James Joyce, works that would eventually appear in Joyce's 1939 novel, 'Finnegans Wake'. The first trade edition of this work, first impression. This was also the first UK edition of this work, following a limited run of numbered privately printed copies produced in Paris in 1929. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Containing two short stories from the Irish modernist, 'The Ondt and the Gracehoper' and 'The Mookse and the Gripes', unfinished works that would eventually become incorporated into 'Finnegans Wake', a work that was gradually written over the course of seventeen years, and is here referred to only as a 'work in progress'.Initial reaction to Finnegans Wake, following its final publication as a complete work in 1939 was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE, in lovely condition. Subtitled "Fragments from WORK IN PROGRESS," TWO TALES OF SHEM AND SHAUN would later be included in parts I and III of FINNEGAN'S WAKE as symbolic of the sons of HCE. They were first published in 1929 in Paris at the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies, and were quite obscure until the present Faber and Faber edition. A beautiful copy of an important stepping stone on the way to Joyce's final book. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mint green boards. Original unclipped (2s. 6d.) orange dust jacket. 46 pages. Ownership stamp of B. Naumburg to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear, small closed tear near middle of spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight.

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First English edition. Characteristic marking to boards; minor thumb-dent affecting first few leaves, bright copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with a bit of wear toward the crown.. Small 8vo, 45pp; pale green boards. First generally available edition of this selection from Finnegans Wake, including "Mookse and the Gripes" and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper," originally published in a limited Paris edition by Black Sun Press. Slocum & Cahoon A37.

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile.***

Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the author’s experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.

Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.

Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.

Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.

Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief… Read More