Women and Men by Joseph Mcelroy (30 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling & toning, in a mylar cover.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition, stated. Thick octavo. 1192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $27.50 price intact; cream cloth over gray paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and gray. Unclipped dust jacket creased and worn along edges, heaviest at crown with a couple short closed tears; creasing to front flap; general rubbing. Mild shelfwear to boards. Binding gives a little but overall holding; interior unmarked; overall a Very Good copy of McElroy's impressive and daunting sixth novel, about which Steven Moore noted, "one closes this extraordinary novel with the conviction that McElroy is fifty years ahead of anyone else now writing.".

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. INSCRIBED in year of publication by Joseph McElroy to poet and translator Richard Howard on title page. , Fine in fine dust jacket. (1192pp. ) The author's magnum opus, and a significant association. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1192 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 306 pages. "From Women and Men" by Joseph McElroy, and contributions by Keith Waldrop, Guy Davenport, Jackson Mac Low, Theodore Enslin, Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg (U.P.).

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Creases to spine. Otherwise in great condition. Light wear. Brief inscription on first page.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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: As New. 1st Edition. Signed Limited Edition, #22/99 copies specially bound by Denis Gouey, and SIGNED by McElroy on the limitation page. Beautiful production, as new in blue patterned paper boards flecked with gold leaf, in a blue/green leather gilt-stamped spine, with a clear acetate dw as issued. Reportedly, Gouey has indicated that he received far fewer orders for this book than anticipated, and consequently very few appear on the market. A true rarity in new condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. McElroy's magnum opus, a nearly 1,200-page novel written over the course of a decade, and often referred to as an American Ulysses in its scope. The Washington Post Book World called the book "The most important novel to appear in America since Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow". Small production flaw/pucker inside the rear board else the book is fine in fine dw with just a touch of toning to the edges and flaps, and is uncommonly INSCRIBED and contemporaneously dated on the front end paper. Beautiful condition for a book of this size. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. limited edition. Number 89 of 226 copies. Signed by McElroy the Colophon. Bound in publisher's quarter brown cloth with light-brown printed-paper covered boards. Very good with very light handling to the boards and spine. 8vo. 42pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Nearly Fine. 1st Edition. A Signed Limited Edition excerpt from his massive (then) forthcoming book Women and Men, # 155 of 226 copies. The book is briefly inscribed and signed a second time on the title page. A touch of fading to the top and fore edge of the boards, thus very nearly fine, absent dw as issued. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, second printing of McElroy's sixth novel, a postmodern classic whose size and complexity have led to comparisons with Ulysses, The Recognitions and Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Publisher's original quarter white cloth over grey boards, spine titled in black; pp. (xii), 1192, [5]. A very good or better copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy, typical concavities to spine, minor shelfwear to boards, internally clean and fine. Jacket shows mild shelfwear. A nice copy, protected in archival mylar.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. Sheets printed rectos only stapled in upper left-hand corner. Fine. Marked in ink and signed by publisher Ewert as being one of four sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine Dj. 1st Edition. A very attractive review copy of the first edition. A bit of pulling away from the spine when viewed from the top in a beautiful dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear. Publisher's slip and oversided post card laid in. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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. A fabulous 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 fine, 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 copiesit is rumoured the number is much less. The novel continually growing in both reputation and scarcity, especially so signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author(s): Joseph McElroy Title: Women and Men Publication: New York: Knopf, 1987 Edition: First Edition Description: Octavo, 1192 pp., publisher's gray boards, quarter bound in white cloth, spine details in black. First state jacket with intact price of $27.50. First Edition signed by author with a very warm inscription and dated. A stunning copy as the author signed in the familiar Joe, meaning he likely knew the recipient. Perhaps McElroy s most well-known novel, his 5th. VG+ with large book looseness, but no spine tears or binding issues. Clean text block, sharp corners and just a trace of rubbing to gilt lettering. Jacket in about VG or better condition with price intact, some trace foxing and soiling, a bit of wrinkling but otherwise is a beautiful jacket which is now preserved in archival mylar. Quite nice. This book, particularly signed copies, has seen a marked increase in value over the last few years as it's importance continues to be discovered. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, signed by McElroy to the title page. McElroy's sixth novel, a postmodern classic whose size and complexity have led to comparisons with Ulysses, The Recognitions and Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Publisher's original quarter white cloth over grey boards, spine titled in black; pp. (xii), 1192, [5]. A near fine or better copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, light rubbing to bottom corner of text block. Jacket shows just a touch of wear and light toning, protected in archival mylar. A very nice copy. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of this modern classic compared with Joyce's Ulysses. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joseph McElroy on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket illustration and design by Carin Goldberg. Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New Yorkâfrom experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirsâbelievers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languagesârich, ludicrous, exact, and also Americanâin which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Thick octavo (24.25cm); dark grey paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine, and in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],[4],5-1191,[11]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $27.50), with light wear and two tiny tears to extremities. McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants of one lower Manhattan apartment building" (Kirkus Reviews).

1192 pp. 8vo. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. 1192 pp. 8vo. McElroy's monumental novel. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Thick octavo (24.25cm); dark grey paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine, and in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],[4],5-1191,[11]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed by him several weeks after publication to Angela Carter on the front endpaper: "To Angela Carter / it's a real thrill to inscribed this book to you, my neighbor, and I hope you like the book / Joe McElroy / April 7, 1987." Tiny nick to cloth at lower backstrip, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a faint, tiny stain to lower edge of textblock; the inscription has a few tiny spatter marks, none of which affect legibility; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $27.50), lightly edgeworn, with a small closed tear at upper spine panel, and a tiny tear toward lower spine panel; Very Good+. McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants of one lower Manhattan apartment building" (Kirkus Reviews). A wonderful association copy, inscribed by McElroy to English novelist and short story author Angela Carter (1940-1992). The previous owner of this volume relayed that in conversation, McElroy confessed to him that while he and Carter were never actually physical neighbors, he considered them to be "intellectual neighbors." He thought highly enough of her debut short story collection Fireworks (1974) that he contributed the following jacket blurb: "Angela Carter's stories are a wonderful surprise to me exotic maps that speak out loud the secrets by which eyes can be juggled and forests understood, and where happy endings exist stranger than in all our real lives." 85675.

First Edition. First Printing. Two octavo volumes (21.5cm); original yellow card wrappers, with titles printed in black, and publisher's printed labels tape onto front covers; [xi],[3],4-602,[2]; 603-1204,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page of Vol.1, with each volume bearing two publisher's folded promotional sheets stapled to the inner front covers. Gentle sunning to spines, some trivial dust-soil to text edges and wrappers, with a faint mark to upper edge of textblock on Vol.2, and a few holograph notes (in ink) done in house on the spine and front wrapper of Vol.2; contents clean; Near Fine. McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants of one lower Manhattan apartment building" (Kirkus Reviews). A mammoth work, of such a size that Knopf was forced to assume (at some expense) the production of proofs in two volumes, done in numbers that were almost certainly smaller than a standard one-volume production. This set is one of fewer than a handful we've seen signed or inscribed.

First Edition. First Printing, limited issue, one of 99 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.12. Thick octavo (24.5cm); paste paper boards and navy blue leather backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [xvi],[4],5-1191,[11]pp. Spine lean, some trivial wear to lower corner tips, else internally clean; about Near Fine, lacking the original acetate overlay. Handsome limited edition of McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants of one lower Manhattan apartment building" (Kirkus Reviews). Bound by Denis Gouey of the Ultramarine Publishing Company. 84655.