When Time Born by Farrell James (21 results)

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Prose Poetry).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 64 pages. Illustrated from drawings by Stephen Dwoskin. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket; one-inch tear to the rear cover. With publisher's review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 64 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket, with $5 price tag. This prose poem is the author's "book of genesis -- the story of time's beginning, Adam & Eve and Eden lost." -- dust jacket. James T. Farrell (1904-1979) is best known as the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy. The illustrations are by Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012), best known as an avant-garde filmmaker. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed; 1-cm. separation over back joint; minor loss at ends of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: POOR CONDITION. FIRST TRADE EDITION. (3) + 6 - 64 PAGES. THIS IS THE TRADE EDITION OF JAMES T. FARRELL'S ESSAY THAT HE CALLED A "PROSE POEM" ABOUT GENESIS AND THE BEGINNING OF HUMANKIND WITH THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE. IN THE BOOK'S INTRODUCTION, FARRELL STATES THAT HE WROTE THE ESSAY IN A CONTINUOUS 20 HOUR INTERVAL. HIS INTENT WAS TO USE THE ESSAY IN HIS BOOKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME BUT HE CHOSE INSTEAD TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED IN THE 1961 SUMMER/ FALL ISSUE OF "THE AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR." FARRELLS NEWEST PUBLISHER, "THE SMITH" PUBLISHED THE BOOK IN B0TH A LIMITED EDITION AND A TRADE EDITION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE HORIZON PRESS. THE DUST JACKET HAS RUBBING OF THE COVERS AND MODERATE SHELF WEAR WITH CHIPPING AND BEGINNING SPLITTING OF THE SEAM. THE BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT ANY DEFECTS. THE INTRODUCTION IS INTERESTING, FOLLOWERS OF FARRELL'S WRITINGS CAN RECOGNIZE A BEGINNNIG DISILLUSIONMENT BY FARRELL PERHAPS PRECIPITATED BY THE CRITICISM OF HIS WRITING FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF THE "STUDS LONIGAN" TRILOGY. FINALLY. EDGAR M. BRANCH ADDS A SUPPLENT UPDATE TO fARRELL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE TTLE IS "A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES T. FARRELL'S WRITINGS." Size: 5 11/16" X 8 3/4".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Dwoskin, Stephen (illustrator). A few very tiny spots to the outside page ends. ; Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stephen Dwoskin (illustrator). Limited Edition. A clean copy in excellent condition. Signed on title page. Limited to 500 copies of which this is #98. 64 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Stephen Dwoskin (illustrator). First Edition. Slight rubbing to jacket. Embossed library stamp of collector Donald L. Blanchard on ffep. Else a fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, limited issue. Illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Fine in original, chipped, unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Number 441 of a limited edition of 500 copies, Signed by the author. Farrell's retelling of the Book of Genesis.

64 pp. 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Just about fine, in an unchipped jacket with one short tear to the bottom of the front panel and some very slight rubbing. Inscribed by the author to composer David Diamond on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited ed. Slim octavo in black cloth stamped in gilt. One of 250 copies signed by Farrell (of which this is No. 133), signature and handwritten limitaion on title page. Illustrations by Stephen Dwoskin. Fine.

The Smith (by arrangement with Horizon Press); 1966; 66-16296;Rilegato con titoli in oro al dorso; 22 x 15 cm; pp. 64; Drawings by Stephen Dwoskin; Presenta leggeri segni d'uso ai bordi (piccole imperfezioni), PRIVO di sovracoperta, interno senza scritte, lievemente brunito; Accettabile (come da foto). ; Testo di James T. Farrell, autore statunitense noto per il ciclo Studs Lonigan, qui in una riflessione narrativa e filosofica sul tema del tempo e della memoria.; Scheda a cura di Equilibri libreria. L'immagine corrisponde alla copia in vendita. 011.83.90.381 Inglese.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage - " To Bernard Perry Cordially Jim Farrell March 9, 1971 NY NY". Bernard Perry was the founding Director of Indiana University Press, which he led from 1950-1976, and in 1951 he published Farrell's book "Poet of the People; an Evaluation of James Whitcomb Riley" . A nice Association Copy. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with light rubbing and a pin-hole along rear spine fold. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Stephen Dwoskin (illustrator). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Limited to 500 copies. Original black gilt designer cloth with stiff black endpapers. Scarce work by the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. As issued, without jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dwoskin, Stephen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Inscribed - "To an Irish girl." by the author on the front fly-leaf. Black DJ is lightly rubbed from handling, chipping at head of spine; not price-clipped. Boards are well-bound, pages clean & sharp throughout. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: POOR CONDITION. FIRST LIMITED EDITION. (3) + 6 - 64 PAGES. THIS IS JAMES T. FARRELL'S "PROSE POEM" AS HE CALLED IT, ABOUT GENESIS OR WHEN HUMANKIND WAS BORN WITH THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE. THIS BOOK IS NUMBER 36 OF A LIMITED EDITION WITH A GLASSINE WRAPPER. THE BOOK IS BOLDLY SIGNED IN INK "JAMES T. FARRELL" ON THE TITLE PAGE THERE ARE 14 UNUSUAL LINE DRAWINGS OF ADAM AND EVE AND CREATION BY ARTIST STEPHEN DWOSKIN. THE BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION WITHOUT DEFECTS AND WAS PRODUCED IN THIS LIMITED EDITION AS WELL AS IN A TRADE EDITION THAT HAS A REGULAR DUST JACKET. THE BOOK PRODUCTION WAS WITH FARRELL'S NEWEST PUBLISHER "THE SMITH" BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE HORIZON PRESS. IN THE INTRODUCTION, FARRELL STATES THAT THE TALE WAS WRITTEN IN ABOUT 20 CONSECUTIVE HOURS IN 1959. THE ESSAY WAS INITIALLY PUBLISHED IN "THE AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR" IN THE SUMMER/FALL ISSUE OF 1961 WITH THE TITLE "PROSE POEM." IN FARRELL'S "INTRODUCTION" TO "WHEN TIME WAS BORN." ONE CAN DETECT FARRELL'S GROWING DISSATISFACTION ABOUT THE CRITICISM OF HIS CONTINUING WORK FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF THE "STUDS LONIGAN" TRILOGY. Size: 5 3/4" X 8 11/16". SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition, trade issue. Boards with spots of faint discoloring and front free endpaper with a small stain, thus near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some rumpling and a few tiny scrapes. Farrell's retelling of the Book of Genesis the story of Adam and Eve, illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Fine in a rubbed, about very good dustwrapper with two short tears and one edge chip, the front flap with a few dots of offsetting from the inked inscription. This is Farrell's retelling of the Book of Genesis the story of Adam and Eve, here illustrated by Stephen Dwoskins, and Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Stephen Dwoskins. Slim octavo. 64pp. Fine in a somewhat rubbed and edgeworn, very good dust jacket with a bit of light rippling and creasing at the spine. Inscribed on the front fly to author Mary McCarthy and her husband: "To Mary and Jim. Affectionately, Jim Farrell." Upon Farrell's death, McCarthy wrote a tribute, "For Jim Farrell's Funeral," for the November 8, 1979 issue of *The New York Review of Books*. Farrell's retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, with a nice association.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, limited issue. Illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Fine in lightly worn example of the original unprinted glassine dustwrapper (not shown in illustration). One of an unspecified number of a limited edition, by turns we have heard both 250 and 500 as the number printed, Signed by the author. Additionally, this copy is Inscribed by the author to Malcolm Cowley and his wife: "To Malcolm and Muriel, Jim Farrell." Cowley and Farrell were both residents of Greenwich Village during the 1930s, and both were active participants in various left wing activities including several American Writer's Congresses. This is Farrell's retelling of the story of Adam and Eve.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a few short tears. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by the author: "Love, Jim" beneath the printed dedication "for Cleo Paturis." Farrell's retelling of the Book of Genesis the story of Adam and Eve.