joyce john jackson wyse peter (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. First edition. xvii+493 pages. 16 pages of illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth. Near fine oopy in very good dust jacket in a mylar protector.

xvii, 494 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards in dust jacket. First US edition. Fine in a fine jacket.

Condizione: FINE. First US printing. The first full biography of this influential father, about whom James Joyce said "Hundreds of pages and scores of characters came from him." The London Sunday Times called this "An exuberant account of the man who set the whole remarkable Joyce saga rolling; [this] book leads us inexorably, truthfully, into a darker, more depraved world than anything most of us have associated with Joyce to date." Illustrated with photographs and reproductions from periodicals of the era. Bibliography, source notes, index. Map endpapers. 494 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).

[0-312-18599-5] 1998. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 493pp. Illustrated endpapers, diagram, maps, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. The top and bottom of the spine are lightly worn and there are creases on bottom left corner of the final pages. "James Joyces often remarked that his wit, gift for storytelling, and many of his characters came from his outrageous father, John Stanislaus Joyce. Until now, this charismatic, influential father has been little more than a literary footnote. In this vivid, readable, and rich biography, Joyce scholars John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello show us John Joyce as we've never seen him before - a formidable father, storyteller, drinker, and patriot who held a profound place in the imagination of his first surviving son". Based on the work of James Joyce. Biography of John Stanislaus Joyce. Time Period. Locale: Dublin. (Biography, Family Relationships, Fathers, Novelists).

Condizione: Very Good. London, Fourth estate limited, 1997. 8vo. (2),+ 494 pp.+ plates. Publ. cloth with a somewhat worn dustwrapper. Owner?s signature of Peder Hammarskiöld. Biography of John Stanislaus Joyce (1849-1931) James Joyces father. Hardcover / Hardback.