Cat Devil by Joyce James, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Roger Blachon (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Canadian Edition. First thus. Illustrated by Roger Blachon. Quarto. Unpaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Gift inscription on title page, else very good in a very good (crease on front flap) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). Part of the Moonlight Editions series. First printing thus. Spine slant, else very good in a very good (rippling to rear panel) dust jacket.

Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Illustrated by Blachon (illustrator). First Edition. DJ has a tear mended with tape. First edition. Text is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st US edition, pre-dating the UK 1st ed. Mustard cloth with black spine titling and magenta drawing of the devil and cat to front board. Boards imperceptivity discoloured at top spine. Illustrated in color by Richard Erdoes. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ERDOES, RICHARD (illustrator). First edition thus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964. First Edition Thus. Joyce crafted this short story in the form of a letter to his grandson written in 1936 and reprinted in book form by Grosset & Dunlap with illustrations by Richard Erdoes. A fanciful tale of building a bridge over the Loire in the medieval town of Beaugency. The bridge still exists. A very good copy in yellow boards with black spine lettering, square and tight, with a few pen marks on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine. The book is housed in a very good dustwrapper with slight loss of material at the spine ends and a few inconsequential chips, with the original price ($3.50) on the inside front flap.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gerald Rose (illustrator). First Edition. This Faber and Faber first edition is of interest to collectors of James Joyce, Gerald Rose illustrated books, children's literature by major literary figures, and Faber first editions. Very Good copy in the original binding with the vivid orange Gerald Rose illustrated dust jacket featuring the white cat and dancing devil; dust jacket with a small closed tear to the upper right corner of the front panel, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise bright and intact; rear panel with the striking abstract orange cat tail design; Gerald Rose's bold pen-and-ink illustrations throughout; binding firm and square; pages clean and bright; a handsome and highly collectible copy of Joyce's only children's book, originally written as a letter to his grandson Stephen in 1936 and here published in its Faber and Faber first edition with the 24 Russell Square, London imprint. Synopsis: Faber and Faber first edition, 24 Russell Square London; Joyce's only children's book, originally written as a letter to his grandson Stephen in 1936; vivid orange Gerald Rose dust jacket with white cat and dancing devil; bold pen-and-ink illustrations throughout; appealing to collectors of Joyce, Gerald Rose, Faber first editions, and children's literature by major literary figures. Review: The Cat and the Devil is James Joyce's only work written for children ? a delightful retelling of the legend of the Devil's Bridge at Beaugency, originally composed as a letter to his four-year-old grandson Stephen Joyce in August 1936. In the story, the Devil offers to build a bridge for the town of Beaugency in exchange for the soul of the first creature to cross it ? only to be outwitted by the Lord Mayor, who sends a cat across first. Gerald Rose's bold, exuberant illustrations perfectly complement Joyce's playful prose, and the Faber and Faber first edition ? with its vivid orange jacket ? is one of the most visually striking and bibliographically unusual items in the Joyce canon. A genuinely rare and desirable piece for any serious Joyce collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. a near fine first in dj. PREVIOUS OWNER'S GIFT inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Erdoes, Richard (illustrator). 1st edition US. 1st ptg. pre-dating the UK 1st ed., large 8vo, full mustard cloth with black spine titling and magenta drawing of the devil and cat to front board. Illustrated in color by Richard Edoes. From a letter to Joyce's grandson wherein he tells the tale of an agreement with the devil for a bridge over the Loire and how the local mayor gets the best of the bargain. Fine in near fine, unclipped dj, small green initials inked next to price, tiny scuff to spine titling, no other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. (32) pp., bound in pictorial boards with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped, slightly foxed and has a few tears. The boards have some at the corners, some spots on paste papers and fly leaves, age toning. Very good copy with a more than acceptable jacket. 25 x 18 cm.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original Gerald Rose illustrated boards, in the pictorial dustwrapper, repeating the design of the boards. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little rubbing to the spine tips and corners, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has been clipped and repriced by the publisher (£1.95 net to the lower front flap), and is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. A charming and beautifully illustrated retelling of a French folk tale, based on a letter written from James Joyce to his grandson, Stephen. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gerald Rose (illustrator). First edition. A superb first edition of this brightly illustrated short story for children from Irish writer James Joyce. First edition. Illustrated with ten full colour pages and numerous in-text images. Not typically considered a writer of children's stories, Joyce wrote this work as a letter to his grandson Stephen. He retells the story of the cat of Beaugency, a town on the Loire, and the difficulties the town experienced when the Devil came to stay. Written by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. Illustrated by Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose, a British illustrator of children's books. In the original full paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American Edition. illustrated octavo. A very good to very good copy in a very good dust jacket spine darkened. Erdoes has drawn a full page drawing of the devil on the half title and inscribed it.