Work Progress by Paul Thomas (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 333 pages. This novel is an acute, darkly comic portrayal of changing times and sexual m ores, and the baby boomer generation in the shadow of mid-life crisis.Novelist M ax Napier didn't set out to make a mess of his life, but if you choose to entert.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 368 pages. Description Bohemians believe that if you travel light and live for today, y ou'll never grow old .Novelist Max Napier didn't set out to make a mess of his life but if you choose to entertain romantic notions and a raffish self-image,

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (1929), First Edition; Good/no dj, octavo, 194pp., off-white softcover wraps chipped all along edges of spine & corners of covers, paper in text slightly browning & brittle o/w unmarked, binding tight, limited edition of 96 copies of this copy unnumbered.

HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE PRESENT, PRINTED IN FRANCE WITH ENGLISH TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 6 INCHES WITH 194 PAGES. FEW MINOR MARKS TO COVER WITH CORNERS BUMPED, ENDPAPERS BROWNED WITH THE OCCASIONAL TEXT PAGE BROWNED OR OCCASIONAL PAGE MARGIN BROWNED. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. Front cover evenly detached; chips with loss to leading edges of front & back cover; loss of up to 1" bottom of spine; covers soiled; moderate tanning to text pages. Holding tight in spite it all. ; Printed wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. I am not sure what to make of this little book. There is little information to identify the date or edition of this publication. Some other sellers have stated that the fact the words "Printed in France" indicate that it is the 2nd edition from 1936. OThers have mentioned the Shakespeare edition from 1929 and the notation on the back overleaf of its printing in Chartres Frances on 5-1929 (stated) as indicating a first edition. I simply don't know so will let the description and pictures speak for themselves. The one thing I am sure of is it a very scarce little work! Book is very good in blue cloth boards with golden lettering on the spine. The front board has a couple of brown stains that look a bit like chocolate on it. There is very light rubbing at the bottom of the spine. Other than that and some toning of the outside of the rough cut pages, a great copy, worthy of any collection!

8vo. First UK edition using sheets printed in France in May 1929. Original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Cloth a little darkened to the spine and top edges. Neat ink ownership, dated 1940, on the fly. Unclipped jacket, showing the price as '6s. net', a bit tanned on the spine with tiny nicks to the spine ends. Near fine in near fine d/w. A collection of essays about 'Work In Progress', which would be published as Finnegans Wake ten years later. The two 'Letters of Protest' are by Joyce. Beckett's contribution, 'Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce' is the author's first appearance in print. His first novel, only published in 1992 after his death but probably written c. 1932, was called 'Dream of Fair to Middling Women'. That title is adapted from Tennyson's poem but was used unaltered by Henry Williamson for one of his novels, published by Faber and included as No. 14 in the list of 'The Faber Library' on the back panel of the jacket of this book. The former owner was David Daiches CBE (1912-2005), the Scottish literary historian and critic.

Hardcover. First English language edition. 191 (2) pages. 19 x 14.5 cm. Published from the original French sheets. Critical essays on Joyce's "Finnegans Wake. Beckett, in Joyce's company at the time, and his essay (the first of the essays here published, by virtue of the alphabet) is his first publication notes, "It takes few intellectual prisoners: " . . . if you don't understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it." Clean copy, pencil notations front free endpaper. Orig. azure blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper with slightly faded spine.

First limited British edition of this collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake. Small octavo, original publisher's cloth. Boldly signed by Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion on the half-title page, and additionally signed by Beckett above the title of his essay. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion both personally knew James Joyce and were early defenders of his experimental work 'Finnegans Wake.' Beckett, a close associate of Joyce in Paris, assisted him with research and contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' Marcel Brion, though more distant, also knew Joyce and played a key role in promoting Finnegans Wake to a French audience, offering interpretive insights that helped frame its reception within European modernism. He also contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' One of 96 numbered copies, this example is unnumbered. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. From the collection of Robert Duncan. Rare. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929) is a landmark critical volume that offers some of the earliest responses to James Joyceâs Finnegans Wake, then still unpublished and known only as Work in Progress. Comprising essays by a range of writersâ"including Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and Stuart Gilbertâ"the collection attempts to grapple with the experimental form, linguistic density, and philosophical ambition of Joyceâs evolving text. While some essays offer praise and others express bafflement, the volume as a whole reflects the modernist fascination with Joyceâs radical departure from conventional narrative.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First trade edition. Limited to 200 copies. Stamped "Made in Great Britain" at base of title page. Very good+ copy in printed paper wrappers. (Bottom inch of spine chipped. Right-hand corner of front cover faintly damp-stained. Binding brittle, but solid. ) Features Samuel Beckett's FIRST appearance in print "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce.".

First edition. [3]-194, [2] p. 191 x 140 mm. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy (the Danish translator of Ulysses) inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach, and with two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge, light creasing on front wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box, with the announcement. "Dante.Bruno. Vico.Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 416 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.94 inches. This item is printed on demand.