Joseph Mcelroy, Signed (57 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 41pp. Heavy foxing to prelims, edges of boards rubbed, else very good in publisher's dark brown cloth. Inscribed by the widower John Knox to his daughter Catherine on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first printing. Fine in very good Dust Jacket with some wear the DJ extremities and a 1/2 inch tear to lower DJ spine. Signed and dated June 9, 2003 by the author on the title page. Dust jacket in protective cover and securely shipped in a box. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo hardcover with quarter brown cloth and dark orange boards, gilt tiling on the spine. A select chapter from the work in progress book "Women and Men", limited to 226 copies of which this is copy 95. This copy is signed by McElroy on the limitation page at the back of the book. The condition of the book is Very Good (binding tight; little to no shelf wear; little to no internal damage; previous label residue on the bottom of the back panel). 42pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). small sticker residue on front pastedown $16.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 432 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$26.95." Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Mild scratching to front of dust jacket. Minor bumping and chipping to spine and edges of dust jacket. Minor cocking to spine. Text block clean. Signed flat by McElroy on title page. Shelved in Case 7. 1410916. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 152 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Light gray spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$16.95", has mild shelving wear. Boards have mild bending wear along the spine head edge, and light bumping along the rear tail fore corner. Textblock has a pencil mark on page 8. Signed flat by Joseph McElroy on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1391949. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first printing. Fine in like Dust Jacket. Signed and dated June 9, 2003 by the author on the title page. Dust jacket in protective cover and securely shipped in a box. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. A paperback original. Inscribed "To Don" by JOSEPH McELROY on the title page. Uncommon signed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. McElroy, Joseph, A Smuggler's Bible. First Edition 1966. Black cloth binding with gilt title to spine and grey wave pattern. Cover has some slight scuffs and slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Unclipped dust jacket has considerable wear to all edges. Some tears to top and bottom of spine and top and bottom of front cover edge. Lovely dedication by the author reads: " To Tony, under whose auspicious and friendly roof part of this peculiar book was written, Yours always Joe." This was McElroy's first novel. He os often grouped with William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon due to the encyclopedic quality of his novels, especially Women and Men (1987). Post - modern fiction. The term "smuggler's bible" refers to a cutout in the body of the pages of a book, suitable for hiding small items when the covers are closed. pp 435 Seller Inventory # 002674. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first Carroll & Graf edition. Inscribed by Joseph McElroy on title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Light rubbing to spine ends, edges, corners. Very good signed edition of McElroy's first novel. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, signed and warmly inscribed by the author to the front endpaper to "my new friend". A fine copy in a fine jacket. Octavo, yellow paper boards, black cloth spine, 152 pages, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf, (1987). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 1,192 pp. Original quarter cream cloth over aegean blue paper-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($27.50) dust-jacket. Mild handling and shelf wear to jacket. Light edge wear, particularly to spine ends, tips and corners. Some wrinkling to spine ends. Rear flap creased vertically. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild handling & shelf wear. Panel edges lightly toned. Smudge to bottom text block. A sturdy copy. An author signed cut-out slip is laid in. Dust Jacket: Near Fine Hardcover: Near Fine "Women and Men is Joseph McElroy's sixth novel. Published in 1987 (with a 1986 copyright), it is 1192 pages long. Somewhat notably, because of its size, the uncorrected proof was issued in two volumes. The size and complexity of the novel have led it to be compared with Ulysses, The Recognitions, and Gravity's Rainbow. The novel is 16th on the Wikipedia list of longest novels, and seventh among novels written in English, and the longest ever written in North America. There were two first editions?neither dates itself before the other. In April 1987, the first trade edition was published by Knopf. Ultramarine Press published a limited, numbered, signed edition, consisting of the Knopf edition (including its copyright and title page) rebound in leather. One month later, Knopf issued a second printing, with an expanded copyright/acknowledgements page.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 215 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good mylar covering. Black spine with yellow and aquamarine lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$8.95", has mild shelving wear, and moderate age-toning along the extremities. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and stains along the quarter-bound cloth. Textblock has light soiling on some pages, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, light foxing along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Joseph McElroy on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 8. 1394710. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. About this Item SIGNED 1st Edition by Joseph McElroy on the title page 531pp. 8vo, Orange paper over boards backed in linen cloth with copper-gilt stamped design of tangled film to front cover and spine, top of spine glue is starting to detach from the book, but mildly. This is the best condition of this book that I could find on the internet. Very clean and fresh with sharp edges and square binding. The slightest wear on the top right of exterior pages. McElroy's fourth novel and by many accounts his best. A sprawling, complex, and experimental narrative surrounding a film shot by two expat American living in England and the network forces that are threatened by it. Grouping it with Gravity's Rainbow and J.R. as one of the great 'Art of Excess' novels of the 70's, Thomas LeClair writes, 'in Lookout Cartridge, density, discontinuity, and a mobius-like twisting of informations take place simultaneously to make t more than any of McElroy's other fictions, a new, profound, and compelling imaginative model.' (Modern Fiction Synopsis With Lookout Cartridge , Joseph McElroy established a reputation as one of contemporary fiction's foremost innovators and deft observers into the fissures of modern society. It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche. In trying to figure out just who is so threatened by an innocent piece of cinema verità filmed in collaboration with a friend, Cartwright finds himself at the heart of a mystery stretching from New York and London to Corsica and Stonehenge. With each new fact he gathers, both the intricacy of the syndicate arrayed against him and what his search will cost him become alarmingly clear. About the Author Joseph McElroy is the author of eight novels, including A Smuggler's Bible and Actress in the House (both available from Overlook). He is the recipient of a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill Foundations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate attached to half-title page (signature only). Huge book-1192 pages (extra postage may be needed due to weight and destination). Spine slightly concave due to massive size as is common with book. hint of foxing to fore-edge. $27.50 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Also includes laid-in a short hanwritten initialed note from author: "Sure, Dan, JM". Very scarce 1st Trade printing hardcover. NO international orders for this book please as I have now decided not to ship books valued over $400 overseas, especially such a large heavy book as this. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. MCELROY, Joseph. Lookout Cartridge (signed review copy). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1974. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cream cloth lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine and front board, in the striking dust jacket designed by Fred Marcellino. Inscribed by the author to title page, 'for David '[-] my fourth book'. Publisher's review copy with review slip loosely inserted. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt decoration a little rubbed and dulled, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($10.00) and fine, minor mark to spine head, but a sharp example and scarce with the author's signature. A bit of a white whale of postmodernist reading and book collecting, albeit a fair bit slimmer than some of its fatboy comrades. 'A gigantic mystery set mainly in London and New York' as yet unread by this cataloguer but which, reportedly, influenced David Foster Wallace's opus, Infinite Jest (1996), if at least in its key plot component of a missing film. Very scarce; the print run was low, and an equally small paperback printing in 1985 remains the only such reprint, for now. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. 1st. 8vo, 531 pp., Signed by the author on the title page. Nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. About this Item SIGNED, DATED, HEADSHOT, ORIGINAL JANUARY 4TH 1977 RECEIPT FIRST EDITION A Fine book in a Fine mylar covered dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. An outstanding copy of this early novel by the award winning and critically acclaimed author of "The Smuggler's Bible" and "Women and Men", among others; this book is scarce in fine or better condition, in the first edition/first printing, and particularly signed by McElroy. This copy is in fine condition with faint light blue colouring from receipt on top exterior pages. Otherwise the book is near perfect, sharp edges, crisp pages, appears unread. This is the best copy that I could find on the internet and is a one of a kind!

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st. MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. Thick 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher s quarter cream cloth over slate grey boards, lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket designed by Carin Goldberg. This copy signed without dedication by McElroy to the title page. As New Mylar covered copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square with the usual slight sagging from the crown as is always the case; this is a tome. The contents as new, the dust jacket unclipped ($27.50), complete and fine. McElroy s monolithic masterpiece of postmodern fiction, often aligned with Joyce s Ulysses, Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow, and Gaddis s The Recognitions for its size, complexity, and maximalist style. Published simultaneously to the trade edition was a special leather-bound limited edition published by Ultramarine Press, in a now-dubious edition of 99 copies it is rumoured the number is much less. The novel continually growing in both reputation and scarcity, especially so signed Synopsis The dilemmas and possibilities of the romantic enterprise in late twentieth-century society are reflected in the lives of James Mayn, a journalist, and Grace Kimball, a leader in the women's movement Reviews The daunting (1190 pages) length of this novel is the least of the impediments the author imposes between its sheer mass and the most willing reader. Even more challenging is a narrative manner by design elusive, at times opaque, interspersed with digressions, eccentricities, parentheses and asides. The plot focuses on the lives of James Mayn, a journalist come to New York from a town in New Jersey, and Grace Kimball, a feminist/therapist who conducts what she calls a Body-Self workshop for women who have been through the mill. (She is Mayn's neighbor, though the two never meet.) Gradually, fragment by fragment, aspects of their lives are examined, along with the lives of their families, friends, associates, in an effort to encompass a wide range of American experience and some sources of contemporary anxiety and anguish: marriage and divorce, parents and children, sexual deviation, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, environmental pollution and destruction, nuclear devastation. Across the affective spectrum from estrangment to connectedness, the narrative voices return always to the themes of feeling. "It's what's between us," a voice says, "or we share." McElroy's ambition is heroic (the novel represents a decade's work), his canvas densely peopled, the animating talent unmistakable; but his narrative method is so diffuse and fragmentary, so willfully withholding of information, that the reader's admiration can soon give way to fatigue. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. This work belongs to that neglected genre of the Sixties, the mega-novel. It is a sprawling narrative full of weird characters, confusing subplots, multiple time frames, and huge chunks of esoteric information. The story focuses on a meteorologist, James Mayn, and a feminist, Grace Kimball, who live in the same apartment building in New York, though "focus" may be the wrong word: a basic structural device is to touch briefly on a wide range of subjects, then circle back and add more detail. Thus, there are digressions on the weather, lesbianism, space exploration, the CIA's role in Chile, and the many uses of jojoba beans; only after a few hundred pages can the reader begin to discern any pattern. McElroy's critical reputation has always been impeccable, his audience negligible. (His most recent novel was Lookout Cartridge, LJ 2/1/75.) This book probably won't change that. It is not sexy or suspenseful, but it is endlessly fascinatingand it is McElroy's most ambitious, most successful work to date. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ** SIGNED, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. Thick 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher s quarter cream cloth over slate grey boards, lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket designed by Carin Goldberg. This copy signed without dedication by McElroy to the title page. As New, Mylar covered copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square with the usual slight sagging from the crown as is always the case; this is a tome. The contents as new, the dust jacket unclipped ($27.50), complete and fine. McElroy s monolithic masterpiece of postmodern fiction, often aligned with Joyce s Ulysses, Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow, and Gaddis s The Recognitions for its size, complexity, and maximalist style.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Unclipped ($10.00). Signed with Inscription to Jerl Surrat and Dated 1975 to FFEP. Book is lightly shelf worn and moderately sunned and soiled to extremities. Top stain is intact but dulled, deckled fore edge, text block is somewhat toned with hints of foxing. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight but somewhat slanted toward rear. Fred Marcellino dust jacket is moderately shelf worn with bumping to extremities causing some chipping and a small closed tear. A small shadow is present to jacket flap from a previous trade sticker. Lightly toning and sunning across jacket. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], [2], 3-531pp. Publisher's Copper Boards Backed with Cream Cloth, Stamped Copper Detailing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. New York: Ultramarine Press, (1987). Limited, Signed #62 of 99. First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 1,192 pp. Original quarter navy leather over aegean blue marbled and ornamental, paper-covered boards, stamped in gold. Faint pulling to spine crown. Book is tight, square and firm. Faint handling & shelf wear. Rubbing to corners and panel edges. Interior clean and unmarked. A lovely example, a collector's copy. Very scarce. Binder Denis Gouey reports that less than a dozen orders for this title were filled and so while the numbered limitation is 99, the true number of units may be much, much lower. Hardcover: Near Fine "Women and Men is Joseph McElroy's sixth novel. Published in 1987 (with a 1986 copyright), it is 1192 pages long. Somewhat notably, because of its size, the uncorrected proof was issued in two volumes. The size and complexity of the novel have led it to be compared with Ulysses, The Recognitions, and Gravity's Rainbow. The novel is 16th on the Wikipedia list of longest novels, and seventh among novels written in English, and the longest ever written in North America. There were two first editions?neither dates itself before the other. In April 1987, the first trade edition was published by Knopf. Ultramarine Press published a limited, numbered, signed edition, consisting of the Knopf edition (including its copyright and title page) rebound in leather. One month later, Knopf issued a second printing, with an expanded copyright/acknowledgements page.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, (1966). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 435 pp. Original black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold & teal, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Mild handling, rubbing and shelf wear to jacket. Tape repairs and presumed color correction to jacket - particular to spine ends and tips. Toning, creasing, a vulnerable jacket now protected in archival mylar. Book is square and firm with mild handling & shelf wear. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed and inscribed by the author. A rare example, especially so signed, of the author's first book. Dust Jacket: Very Good Hardcover: Very Good "A Smuggler's Bible is Joseph McElroy's first novel. David Brooke?who talks of himself in a split-personality manner?narrates a framing tale that consists of him "smuggling" his essence into eight autobiographical manuscripts, although their connection with Brooke is not always clear. Brooke seems to deteriorate, while his fictions become more real. In ordinary English, a "smuggler's bible" refers to a book with a cutout in the body of the pages, suitable for hiding small items when the covers are closed. McElroy explicitly acknowledged the influence of William Gaddis The Recognitions in an interview, and also in his "Neural Neighborhoods" essay, where McElroy states he was already well into his own novel when he read the Gaddis novel.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of McElroy's debut novel. Presentation copy, signed by McElroy to his daughter Hanna and her partner - "To Hanna and Harry / with love / from Joe." New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Publisher's original grey cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. viii, 435. A very good copy in a fair, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy, general light shelfwear and rubbing to boards, a few faint surface stains to edge of text block, internally clean. Jacket shows wear and tear along with creasing, spine sunned. An imperfect copy, albeit with a fantastic association. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition. SIGNED by Joseph McElroy on the title page and inscribed to noted photographer and fine-press publisher, Stathis Orphanos. With his partner, Ralph Sylvester, Orphanos was a concerted collector of California and particularly Hollywood fiction. 531pp. 8vo, Orange paper over boards backed in linen cloth with copper-gilt stamped design of tangled film to front cover and spine, deckled fore edge, light blue topstain. Very mild bump to the spine head and a small drip stain to the fore edge, otherwise entirely and uncommonly clean and fresh with sharp edges and square binding; DJ with some trivial rubbing to the tips and one short tear to front head, crisp and bright otherwise. McElroy's fourth novel and by many accounts his best. A sprawling, complex, and experimental narrative surrounding a film shot by two expat American living in England and the network forces that are threatened by it. Grouping it with Gravity's Rainbow and J.R. as one of the great 'Art of Excess' novels of the 70's, Thomas LeClair writes, 'in Lookout Cartridge, density, discontinuity, and a mobius-like twisting of informations take place simultaneously to make t more than any of McElroy's other fictions, a new, profound, and compelling imaginative model.' (Modern Fiction Studies 27.4). Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, signed and humorously inscribed to front endpaper by author, "if this book proves too ponderous to read, it can be used as a paperweight / Joe". A nice association copy, signed only in the familiar "Joe." Book and jacket are both very near fine with only mild signs of use or wear. Octavo in red cloth, 307 pages, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition, inscribed by McElroy on title page. Due to book's thickness, it has caused stress to hinges. Minor bumping to ends of spine. Some spine lean. Minor scratches to bottom of textblock. Ink stains from printing process to four pages near end of book. Very good dust jacket. Not price-clipped. Slight wear to ends of spine. Half inch tear to top of spine. Minor creases to front cover. Minor discolouration to bottom of front cover. Slight rubbing and wear to back cover. Minor wear to folds. Small area of loss to bottom of back fold. Overall, a nice inscribed first edition by the American novelist. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A stunning example of a book that sees much wear simply from handling its bulk. A superb first edition, first printing, flat signed by the author to the title page. This copy has some light wear to bottom board edges, but less than typically so, some light foxing to block edges but is structurally and internally fine. Jacket presents as fine, being unclipped and without flaw. This novel of McElroy's is considered his masterpiece and is one of the longest pieces of fiction ever published in the English language. Large octavo, 1192 pages, grey paper boards with white cloth backing, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. This item will likely need additional shipping due to weight and size. Please reach out first if this is a concern. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy of this beautiful, scarce book. Signed limited and numbered, this is copy 71/99. Coming in at a bulking 1192 pages, this special edition of this landmark work has ornamental paper boards with gold leaf backed by a forest green leather spine, with gilt titles on the spine only. Binder Denis Gouey reports that less than a dozen orders for this title were filled and so while the numbered limitation is 99, the true number of units is much, much lower. This copy shows the standard rubbing to lower fore edge and mild dusting to the block in the same area. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. As this is a large and heavy item, it will require additional postage. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. An outstanding copy of this early novel by the award winning and critically acclaimed author of "The Smuggler's Bible" and "Women and Men", among others; this book is scarce in near fine or better condition, in the first edition/first printing, and particularly signed by McElroy. This copy is in near fine condition with only light shelf wear to the ends and edges, and a slight fading to the top exterior text block stain, else fine. Housed in a near fine dust jacket that is clean and crisp with only light age-toning to the flaps and back panel, some very mild rubbing to the spine head and edges, a light crease running along the top of the front panel, and one short closed tear to the top corner of the back panel. A beautiful copy and a must have for the McElroy collector! Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; protected in a mylar cover. Inscribed by Author(s).