Titles starting with U from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

The front wrapper is the engraved, signed and sealed patent grant, dated March, 5, 1895, and made out to the Minneapolis inventor, who assigned the patent to his wife; within are four leaves, printed on one side only: two diagrams and a two page description; some staining and creasing; very good. Also included is a photograph of a drawing of the equipment at work (very good condition), pulled by a steam tractor, and a five page typed prospectus (folded). ... more information

London: Jenkins, 1924. First Edition. Very good. ... more information

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Small ownership label; very good in a somewhat chipped and mended dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. A confusing novel of some metaphysical interest. ... more information

London: John Lane/ The Bodley Head, 1936. First Edition printed in England; one of 100 numbered copies on special paper and bound in full gilt-decorated vellum; signed by Joyce. Very slight soiling; a fine copy in a custom cloth slipcase. This edition, with an elegant design by Eric Gill, is the most beautiful edition of Ulysses. ... more information

Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922. First Edition; one of 750 numbered copies. Original publisher’s wrappers. Minor rubbing and soiling of the wrappers; a little short of fine, but an excellent, unrestored copy. Never having read this effusively praised and influential book, this cataloguer will refrain from plagiarizing those who are actually familiar with it. In a custom clamshell box. ... more information

Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1930. Second German Language Edition; preceded by an edition published in Basel in 1927. Two volumes; bookplates; about fine in dust jackets and the original stapled cardboard slipcase. ... more information

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. First Edition, thus, the first illustrated edition of Ulysses. The entire edition consisted of 1500 numbered copies, but of that number, only 250 copies were signed by both Joyce and Matisse. This copy has a cracking front hinge, but is otherwise in near fine condition in the original paper-covered cardboard publisher’s slipcase, which is stained and cracked. The remains of the original glassine are laid in. In a custom quarter-morocco folding clamshell box. ... more information

Chicago: privately printed, 2004. First Edition. Fine. ... more information

New York: Appleton-Century, 1937. First Edition. Very good. ... more information

New York: Didier, 1948. First American Edition. Owner’s inscription; very near fine in a very good dust jacket with a little spine fading. ... more information

London: Jenkins, 1946. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket with minor wear but a chip at the foot of the spine affecting the “N-K-I” of the publisher’s imprint. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. First Edition. Label removed from the front free endpaper; very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information

Richmond, Virginia: Everett Waddey Company, 1897. Wright 3457; noting this edition, but also that it was preceded by an Arena Press (Boston) edition two years earlier. The front board is decorated in a red and green holly Christmas motif. Illustrated and largely told in black dialect. ... more information

Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson Co., 1854. First Edition. Publisher’s paper-covered boards, featuring a hand-colored plate of a North American Indian (repeated as the first plate of the panorama); some rubbing; very good. Consisting of 24 hand-colored plates: 3 of American Indians, 3 of Mexican Indians, one of Haytians [sic], one of Esquimaux [sic] and the remainder picturing various South Americans. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; first printing. Publisher’s brown cloth; spine ends a bit worn; a very good copy. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; BAL third state (printing?). Publisher’s green cloth; spine ends a little mended, else a very good copy. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; BAL’s first state (and probable printing). Publisher’s dark green cloth; only the most minute wear; an extraordinarily fresh and clean copy. Rare in this condition. In a custom clamshell box. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; BAL’s second state (and probable printing). Publisher’s green cloth; only minute wear; exceptionally clean and bright. In a custom clamshell box. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; third state. Finely bound early in the 20th century in full black morocco with an elaborately decorated spine; original spine and front cover cloth bound in after the text. Inset onto each pastedown, framed by gilt morocco, is an original watercolor by George H. Norman of Brer Rabbit; signed by the artist. Minor rubbing and a barely visible tide mark at top of the fore-edge; in excellent condition. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First Edition; BAL’s first state (and probable printing). Publisher’s brown cloth; small name stamp at the top of the front free endpaper and at the top of the title page; minor cloth wear and foxing; else, very good or a little better. ... more information