1. Joyce, James.

Finnegans Wake.

First American Edition. New York, The Viking Press, 1939. Large-8° (15.7 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). 628 pages. Hardcover without the original dustjacket / Original black publisher’s buckram with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Wonderful tight and excellent overall condition of this rare first american edition of Finnegans Wake. Provenance: From the library of one Robert D. Parsons with his bookplate to the front pastedown, dated in 1941. Tiny Booksellers Label from McClelland & Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

2. [Joyce, James] Gorman, Herbert.

James Joyce – Leben und Werk. Mit einem Nachtrag von Carola Giedion-Welcker.

Hamburg, Claasen Verlag, 1957. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 375 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag.

3. [Joyce, James] Budgen, Frank.

James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses – With a Portrait of James Joyce and four Drawings by the Author [Frank Budgen’s famous illustrations for Ulysses].

First Edition. [Two Volumes]. London / Mayfair, Grayson & Grayson, 1934. Octavo (15 cm wide x 22.4 cm high). Frontispiece – Portrait of a reclining Joyce, 320 pages, complete with all the illustrations in place. Hardcover (original, publisher’s quarter cloth with original spine-label). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Firm example of this rare first edition.

4. Ellman, Richard.

The Use of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Six in the Ben Belitt Lectureship series.

Bennington, VT, Bennington College, 1984. 8°. 25 Pages. Stapled Wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in memory of William Troy”.