Edited by ellsworth mason (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is missing a 1/4" x 1/2 " piece from bottom of spine and is rubbed on front with slight rubbing across back and top of spine. Dust jacket is not price clipped and is protected by archival mylar. Text block is clean and tight. This book published (some for the first time) Joyce's then little-known essays and critical writings dating from an essay written when he was 14 to a 1937 manifesto in French on the "Moral Right of Authors".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. NYC: Viking, 1959. 1st edition, NF/G/. Book has some wear to spine ends. DJ is price-clipped (ink price near clip), wear & chipping to spine ends & corners, wear to some edges with a few closed tears, color fade to spine (no red), light staining to inside upper edges. Includes footnotes and index. Culled "from unpublished manuscripts, playbills, random pamphlets and obscure periodicals, this is a little-known collection of essays and critical writings" spanning the years 1896-1937. 57 separate writings, 288 pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Good+ dust jacket. First printing of the First US Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. NOTa library discard. HARDCOVER first edition. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($5.00). The jacket is intact, but mildly rubbed with a few very short closed tears at the edges. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Pages are otherwise crisp. clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Top edge tinted red, as issued. Bound in the original two-tone cloth (black sides with rust color spine with black spine panel. Stamped on the spine in gold and black. The front cover features Joyce's signature in blind. Complete with dust jacket. From an AI overview: "The Critical Writings of James Joyce is a 1959 collection of essays, reviews, and articles by James Joyce, co-edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. It features 57 pieces written between 1898 and 1937, showing how the famous author thought about literature, art, and his own work. Book Details. Authors: James Joyce (with editors Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann). First Release: 1959 by Viking Press (US) and Faber & Faber (UK). Content: 57 prose pieces, book reviews, public lectures, and newspaper articles. Languages: Written in English, plus translations of pieces Joyce wrote in Italian or French. Key Themes. Early Reviews: Joyce writes about other authors when he is a young man. Esthetics: He explains his views on beauty and how art works. Political Notes: He shares thoughts on Irish culture and European politics. Self-Defense: He explains his goals for books like Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.". First printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good+ dust jacket. Illus. by NOTa library discard. 8vo. 288pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOTa library discard (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. The Critical Writings of James Joyce, Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellman, Softcover, US, 2nd Printing (December 1965). This is a Compass Books Edition. Issued by The Viking Press, Inc. Book in good condition. It shows cover wear and rubbing, with a small closed tear to the top of the front cover. There is a bookseller's price sticker to the bottom of the back cover. The name "Edward W Said" is written to the front endpaper, believed to be the Palestinian and American academic, literary critic and political activist. The book has some ageing to the page edges. Otherwise a good, tight copy. (See pictures).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Critical Writings of James Joyce, Edited by Ellsworth Mason & Richard Ellmann, Hardcover, First US Edition (1959). Book in very good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. The book has slight bumping to the spine ends, with some ageing to the page edges. The dust jacket shows some wear and ageing, especially to the extremities. It has a few closed tears and small losses to the top of the spine and other extremities. The dust jacket is now encased in a removable plastic sleeve. Overall a very good, tight and clean copy for a book of this age. (See pictures).…