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1927COLLECTI007490IPARIS: SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY. NEAR FINE. PUB 1929 1927. FIRST AMERICAN. SLOCUM/CAHOON #19 /This is a pirated edition that used the legitimate 9th Shakespeare printing of May 1927 / . This is the true First American Edition unauthorized of 1929. This pirated edition of the 9th Shakespeare And Company ULYSSES was printed by Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger 230 West 17th St. New York for Samuel and Max Roth. Of the 2000 -3000 copies printed many copies of this piracy were seized by "The Society for the Suppression of Vice" on October 5 1929. One of these pirated copies sent by Joyce to Bennett A. Cerf of Random House was used in setting up the first authorized American Edition of "ULYSSES". Blue cloth covered boards with "ULYSSES / JOYCE" in gilt on spine. The blue printed wrapped sans flaps as called for by Slocum. book was bound into this case binding only loosing the original unprinted spine of the wraps. A beautiful clean and tight copy. . SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY hardcover
1930ST15753bParis: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE. No. 24 OF 100 COPIES ON IRIDESCENT HANDMADE JAPON SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies. 283 x 191 mm. 11 1/8 x 7 1/2". 72 2 pp. <br/> Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine leaves untrimmed and UNOPENED IN THE ORIGINAL GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPPER. The whole in the original slightly rubbed three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper. Without the original slipcase. Title printed in green and black initials and headlines printed in green. Inside front cover of folder with bookplate of John Kobler see below. Slocum & Cahoon A-41. Corners just slightly bumped one small faint brown spot to tissue cover but AN OUTSTANDING COPY the very fragile and always-torn glassine entirely intact and the text with no signs of use most of it never having seen the light of day.<br/> <br/> This luxury version of an excerpt from "Finnegans Wake" is printed on especially pleasing handmade paper that glows like a pearl. In his book review for the New York Times 11 January 1931 Herbert Matthews says this fragment is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics which is not without its profit and amusement." However he admits "after an honest and patient effort backed by a previous reading of all of Mr. Joyce's work 'Haveth Childers Everywhere' still remained absolutely incomprehensible" and he expresses concern that "Mr. Joyce has gone a little further on the path he is hewing for himself toward what seems to be complete linguistic chaos." Perhap our previous owner found it equally rough going for this copy has obviously never been read. That owner could well have been the prolific biographer John Kobler 1910-2000 who wrote biographies of among others Al Capone John Hunter and John Barrymore and who contributed regularly to the New Yorker Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Fountain Press unknown
193912362FINNEGANS WAKE Faber & Faber 1939 first edition some faint grey specks along the spine else a tight vg copy. Of 425 specially bound copies this is 1/125 copies of the English issue SIGNED by the author. Among the most controversial and important 20th century works of literature. Faber & Faber unknown
192943637Paris.: The Black Sun Press. 1929. Original publisher's cream wrappers with printing in red and black to upper cover and spine monochrome 'black sun' vignette to rear wrapper original glassine wrapper. 4to. 212 x 168 mm. Half-title title printed in red and black contents leaf leaf with monochrome etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constanin Brancusi signed in the plate preface by C. K. Ogden pp. xv The Mookse and the Gripes pp. 1 - 16 The Muddest Thick that was Ever Heard Dump with mathematical diagram on pg. 32 pp. 17 - 43 The Ondt and the Gracehoper pp. 45 - 55 justification leaf with achevé d'imprimer June 1929. Printed 21 lines per page in hand-set Caslon headlines and initials printed in red throughout. Harry Marks' nominatif copy on Japon - conforming to the édition de tête - signed by Joyce.From the edition limited to 650 copies with this nominatif copy conforming to the edition de tête of 50 hors commerce on Japanese Vellum signed by Joyce in black ink to the half-title; this copy was printed for Harry F. Marks: 'This copy is for / Harry F. Marks' see the justification.'The entire edition is for sale at the / Bookshop of Harry F. Marks / 31 West 47 Street New York'. From the justification.Printed in Paris by Harry and Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press and with an introduction by C. K. Ogden 'Tales Told of Shem and Shaun' was offered for sale in New York at the 'Bookshop of Harry F. Marks 31 West 47 Street New York'. This was the second separately published fragment of Joyce's fabled 'Work in Progress' after 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' in 1928 although sections had been printed in periodicals as early as 1924 a work which would eventually coalesce - on May 4th 1939 after 17 years of work - into Finnegans Wake.Picasso had been the first choice to provide a frontispiece but refused on the grounds that he did not produce portraits 'sur commande' and Joyce suggested Constantin Brancusi as an alternative. Brancusi's final 'portrait' the abstract 'Symbol of James Joyce' prompted Joyce's father to remark on seeing it: 'the boy seems to have changed a good deal'.'A portrait as abstract as the author's text . '. The Artist and the Book.The Artist and the Book 32; Slocum & Cahoon A36; see Joyce by Richard Ellmann pg. 614. The Black Sun Press. unknown
192925938Paris: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach 1929. 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. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach unknown
192922015Paris: Shakespeare And Company 1929. First edition. One of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Our Exagmination contains brief quotations from Work In Progress including a passage concerning Swift and blindness which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The ‘Letters of Protest' are reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Also includes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print his essay on Joyce entitled "Dante Bruno Vico Joyce." The present copy belonged to Mogens Boisen the Danish translator of Ulysses and is inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach. It also includes two letters from him to a former owner explaining the circumstances whereby he was given the book. Small chip from rear wrapper front wrapper lightly creased otherwise a fine copy with two copies of the publication announcement preserved in a folding board box. 8vo original printed wrappers. Small chip from rear wrapper front wrapper lightly creased otherwise a fine copy with two copies of the publication announcement preserved in a folding board box. Shakespeare And Company unknown
1917463618New York: B.W. Huebsch 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing April 1917 of the American edition the first edition was published in December 1916 preceding the English edition. Octavo. 299pp. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary bookplate of Walter A. Donnelly on the front pastedown and his ownership signature on the front fly else very near fine in attractive very good or better second printing dustjacket with several old internal tape repairs mostly at the folds and not visible on the outside. The text of the second printing jacket appears to be identical to the text of the first printing although laid out slightly differently with "Second printing" overstamped in red on the front panel.<br /> <br /> Joyce's landmark first novel. Huebsch printed 1250 sets of sheets for the first edition selling 500 sets to England for the Egoist Press edition which was published later thus the true first edition in this case the American edition preceded the English was 750 copies. We are unaware of the number of copies in the second printing but it was likely to have been quite small perhaps as few as 500 copies. Although the first edition is rare in jacket we've at least seen a few jacketed copies. This is the first copy we've seen of the second printing in the appropriate jacket. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
1918144094New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition of the author's only play published simultaneously with the British edition. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "James Joyce 2 June 1923 Paris." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed. Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead" the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W.B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970 when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
1929835121929. JOYCE James. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Orig. paper covers with orig. glassine wrapper and publisher's slipcase. Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. One of 100 signed copies on Japanese vellum this being no. 79. The second separately printed portion of fragments of "a work in progress" which would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Engraved portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi. Although identified in the colophon as a portrait this appears as a spiral design. According to the Morgan Library "Brancusi later explained the cryptic image to the painter Jacques Herold noting 'Joyce is like that: he departs from one point and you'll never meet him again.'" Glassine wrapper is torn at the spine slipcase toned else very good. unknown
1935140946387New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1500 signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown. Fine with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. The Limited Editions Club unknown
1922846021922. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Orig. blue wrappers in custom folding box. Paris: Published for the Egoist Press London by John Rodker 1922. One of 1000 copies this being no. 929. Nice copy of the edition known as the 1st English edition but technically second printing published under the aegis of the Egoist Press from the plates of the first edition printed in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in February 1922. This edition was published om October 1922. Misleadingly referred to as the "first English" or "first U.K. edition" because it was intended to be sold in England rather than Paris; however the first edition to be physically printed in England wasn't until that of the Bodley Head in 1936. Paper wrappers slightly worn and chipped split at hinges small stain to lower left corner of back wrapper; internally clean. Very good with the highly desirable 7pp. errata laid in. unknown
1922140944847London: The Egoist Press 1922. First British edition. First British edition. Published by John Rodker in London October of 1922 following the Paris printing in February the same year. Technically printed in France but for British private distribution. vi 732 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps on handmade paper. Copy #275 in a limitation of 2000. Near Fine with the fragile wraps in truly excellent shape; very rarely found unsophisticated with such little wear especially on the spine which typically has much much more chipping and wear; no restoration done to it. Typical toning to contents bump to bottom right corner with a hint of creasing. A literary milestone in wonderful shape. The Egoist Press unknown
119639London John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. . First UK edition number 726 of 900 copies on Japon vellum from an overall limitation of 1000; 4to; original green buckram with gilt Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper cover titles to spine gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed with the unclipped dust-jacket a little tanning to the foot of the spine panel but a handsome copy of a stunning piece of book production.<br /> The first truly complete edition of Joyce's literary masterpiece incorporating the author's corrected text and complemented by a prefatory list of previous editions and three appendices including a legal history of the novel and a bibliography of the author's works.<br /> Slocum & Cahoon A23. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. hardcover
1907177849London: Elkin Mathews 1907. Love and laughter song-confessed / When the heart is heaviest First edition first issue of the author's first book prompting his resignation from his employment at a bank two months before publication. "These delicate lyrical verses were the work of the young poet of the college years and later" contrasting with the fiction which proved "a reversal of the earlier mood and view of the world" Costello p. 273. Publication took place on 10 May 1907 in a run of 509 copies which were not all bound at once. This first issue is slightly larger in size bound in a light green cloth with thick laid endpapers showing horizontal chain lines and it has the poems in signature C well-centred. The second and third variants were bound up in dark green cloth a few years later. They are both trimmed slightly smaller leaving the poems in signature C poorly centred. This copy is from the library of Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth CBE 1883-1951 the founder of the British Drama League who began working for the publisher Chatto & Windus in the same year Chamber Music was published. "Whitworth knew many writers established and new; through him the firm attracted works by such authors as G. K. Chesterton Lytton Strachey and Clive Bell". In 1934 George Bernard Shaw described Whitworth as "one of the most important people in the theatre today" ODNB. His ownership inscription is on the front free endpaper. Small octavo. Illustrated title page. Original light green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a dark green cloth chemise and gilt-decorated green morocco slipcase by Rene Patron of Hollywood. Cloth notably sharp notwithstanding mild rubbing and darkening of spine spots of soiling to a couple of leaves. A near-fine copy. Slocum & Cahoon A3 first variant. Peter Costello James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1992. hardcover
1935241728New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt top edge speckled in glassine jacket housed in publisher's plain pale yellow slipcase spine titled in brown. Fine in toned and lightly chipped original glassine jacket in near fine publisher's slipcase. Illustrated by Henri Matisse in six etchings with accompanying preliminary sketches on blue and yellow transparent overlays. i-iii-xv 3 363 3pp. 12" x 9.5" NOT EVERY PICTURE TELLS THE STORY <br /> <br /> In October 1929 the stock market crashed and the twenty-nine year old George Macy 1900-1956 introduced the first book in his publishing venture The Limited Editions Club. Subscribers paid an affordable monthly price for editions de luxe of literary classics illustrated and signed by notable artists often designed by Macy in a limitation of 1500 copies.<br /> <br /> At the time the idea was groundbreaking and surprisingly well-received and Macy displayed an unflagging all-American spirit of purpose driven by risk-taking that would keep his publishing passion afloat through the Depression and onward. As its centenary approaches it appears that LECs have also survived the quirks and whims of book collectors thanks to Macy's unbridled instinct for matching artists with texts. Take for example the strangest marriage of them all Henri Matisse meets James Joyce's Ulysses the most valuable blunder in LEC history. An indignant Joyce finding out that Matisse had never read the book dropped out of the project at the eleventh hour signing only 250 copies sparking endless gossip and criticism and making it the most desirable of any of the LECs. Our copy may not have Joyce's imprimatur but it is otherwise complete and in spectacular condition making it a special offering from our Spring acquisitions.<br /> <br /> Limited to the standard 1500 signed and numbered copies of which this is number 364 signed by Matisse in pencil on the limitation page--preserved here in incredibly scarce original glassine. <br /> <br /> Slocum 22. Limited Editions Club unknown
1928172029New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. A choice example of this predecessor to the Wake First edition signed limited issue number 666 of 800 copies signed by the author. Copies are rare in the publisher's glassine and slipcase which are unrecorded by the bibliographers Slocum & Cahoon. This edition which included a further 50 unsigned copies printed on green paper and bound in black cloth precedes the British edition by two years. Anna Livia Plurabelle is an early published chapter from Joyce's famous "Work in Progress" that eventually became Finnegans Wake 1939. T. S. Eliot thought it an excellent chapter to select for early publication writing that "this fantasy of the course of the river Liffey is the best-known part of Finnegans Wake and is the best introduction to it" p. 7. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt blind rules and dog-tooth roll on covers front cover with gilt triangular centrepiece top edge gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. In publisher's glassine and original green card slipcase. Two later postcards with Joyce's portrait one by Man Ray loosely inserted. Spine head knocked bump to upper corners cloth bright and contents clean; glassine with tear to upper spine and fold ends with singular chip: a near-fine copy. Slocum & Cahoon A32. T. S. Eliot Introducing James Joyce: A Selection of Joyce's Prose 1942. hardcover
1914187149London: Grant Richards Ltd 1914. A landmark of modernism and the short story First edition first issue of the author's short story debut his first major work and second book overall. The final story "The Dead" is roundly considered among the finest ever written. "In its lyrical melancholy acceptance of all that life and death offer 'The Dead' is a linchpin in Joyce's work" Ellmann p. 252. Joyce spent years battling the publishers to release the book in uncensored form stating that no artist should dare "to alter in the presentment still more to deform what he has seen or heard" letter of 5 May 1906 and defending the stories as a "first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country" 20 May 1906. The edition comprised 1250 copies of which 746 were published in London for first issue and the remaining 504 shipped to Huebsch in New York where they were not issued until the end of 1916. Octavo. Original red cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Spine mildly darkened shallow loss to spine ends bump to fore edge small mark to top edge pages 15-22 reinserted with repairs affecting some marginal letters couple of smaller tears and repairs: very good. Slocum & Cahoon A8. Richard Ellmann James Joyce 1983. hardcover
1919029930Zurich: Rascher & Cie. 1919. The first German edition of Joyce's play Exiles and the first of his works to be published in translation in any language. One of 600 copies printed: Joyce was living in Zurich at the time and he paid for the publication of this book out of his own pocket. This copy is inscribed by the author: "To J.R. sic Watson Jun / with grateful regards / James Joyce / 8. ix. 1919." J.S. Watson Jr. was at the time the co-owner of the modernist literary journal The Dial which he bought from Martyn Johnson with his friend and fellow Harvard graduate Scofield Thayer. Watson became president of the magazine and Thayer became its editor. The "grateful regards" refers to a gift of $300 that Watson had sent Joyce earlier in the year at the urging of Thayer who had himself sent Joyce $700. These sums bailed Joyce out of dire financial straits allowed him to settle a court case against him and helped him support the theater group that he had associated with in Zurich the English Players. In 1920 The Dial published a piece by Joyce and in 1921 Thayer was one of his most ardent and influential supporters in the censorship case in New York against Ulysses and its publication in the Little Review. A notable association copy of Joyce's first translation. Slocum & Cahoon D44. Pages browned and acidified and covers strengthened at all the edges and spine with tape with a hole cut in the spine for the title to show through. The first blank on which the inscription appears is also strengthened at the edges with tape. Fragile and a candidate for de-acidification but a significant association copy from a critical point in Joyce's life and career. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Rascher & Cie. paperback
1907514413London: Elkin Mathews 1907. Hardcover. Fine. First edition first issue. 16mo. 40pp. Light green cloth gilt. Contemporary owner name in blue pencil on front fly faint soil mark on front board the lettering on the spine is still bright thus near fine in a fine example of the publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket. The very scarce first issue of James Joyce's first trade book preceded by two broadsides. This is the first binding variant according to Smoot and Cahoon A3: "First variant: Thick laid end papers with horizontal chain lines. 16.2 x 11 cm. Poems in signature C well centered on page." Published in a total edition of 509 copies. According to booksellers Bernard Quaritch Bulletin 19 1984 only "fifty or a hundred" copies of the first variant were bound and issued in 1907. Contemporary presentation copies appear in the first binding and it certainly seems plausible that due to low demand only a small number of copies were bound in 1907. Elkin Mathews hardcover
1935151736New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses widely recognized as the first illustrated edition. Large quarto original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth with 26 illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies this is number 1476. Boldly signed by Henri Matisse in pencil on the colophon page at the rear. In near fine condition. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Housed in the rare original board slipcase which is in good condition. One of the 20th-century’s most desirable illustrated books combining the work of two great modern artists. A nice example with the rare slipcase. One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature. "It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation of similar virtuosity" Wheeler 15. The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce's Ulysses including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy this work's designer who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings Matisse's only use of this medium record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions" Artist and the Book 197. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
19282091202133212392Crosby Gaige New York 1928. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Crosby Gaige, New York paperback
1930190805Paris: 1930. Lady Cunard. is sending over a person to hear Sullivan An unpublished letter sent to the future proprietor of the Ulysses Bookshop enlisting him in the promotion of the Irish tenor John O'Sullivan. Joyce first heard the singer perform in October 1929 and was immediately enthralled by his powerful voice. Upon meeting Joyce and O'Sullivan became friends and drinking companions and Joyce worked tirelessly to help O'Sullivan achieve success. In early 1930 Joyce was struggling against a creative slump in his work on Finnegans Wake. Furthering O'Sullivan's career became an alternative pursuit; Joyce was himself an amateur tenor and regarded the singer as "a kind of alter ego" Ellman p. xlv. He attended as many performances as possible always sitting in the front row and responding enthusiastically and encouraged his friends and admirers to do the same. He also attempted to get the tenor noticed by music critics and potential patrons such as Nancy Cunard's mother who he mentions in the present letter: "I have written to Lady Cunard and she is sending over a person to hear Sullivan". Ultimately few others were found who shared Joyce's enthusiasm for the singer but he was immortalized as the character "Jean Souslevin" i.e. "under the wine" in Finnegans Wake. Jacob Schwartz was "one of the first to recognize the market potential for letters and manuscripts of Joyce" Brockman p. 174. He met the writer in London in 1929 and shortly afterwards embarked on a journey to Dublin to purchase Joyce-related documents and memorabilia. The Ulysses Bookshop opened later in 1930. Single sheet of Joyce's printed letterhead 232 x 158 mm typed on one side. Housed in custom orange cloth chemise with acetate internal pocket. Short splits at ends of former folds two with small tape repairs to verso holding fast edges a little chipped and creased lightly toned. In very good condition. Richard Ellman ed. Letters of James Joyce Volume II 1966; William S. Brockman "Jacob Schwartz - 'The Fly in the Honey'" Joyce Studies Annual vol. 9 Summer 1998. hardcover
1924151436New York: George H. Doran Company 1924. First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo original publisher's red cloth illustrated with tipped in plates. Association copy inscribed by the author to fellow writer James Joyce on the front free endpaper "James Joyce with the writers compliments Joseph Collins." The recipient James Joyce was an Irish modernist writer whose novel Ulysses 1922 is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literature. Set in Dublin over the course of a single day the novel employs innovative narrative techniques—most notably stream of consciousness—to explore the inner lives of its characters while drawing structural parallels to Homer’s Odyssey. Joseph Collins was the first person to review Ulysses for the New York Times after Joyce lent Collins the Little Review installments of Ulysses. Collins groaned to Nutting the next day "I have in my files writing by the insane just as good as this" and gave a medical explanation of the deterioration of the artist's brain. Later on however he began to think better of the book. Joyce even had Molly Bloom memorialize Collins's manner in Ulysses: "Floey made me go to that dry old stick Dr Collins for womens diseases on Pembroke road. I wouldn't trust him too far to give me chloroform or God knows what else still I liked him when he sat down to write." Richard Ellman James Joyce page 516. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association. Dr. Joseph Collins 1866–1950 was an American neurologist author literary critic and medical educator known for his contributions to the study of nervous and mental disorders in the early twentieth century. A graduate of New York University Collins served as a professor of neurology and was actively involved in clinical practice and medical writing producing works that addressed both specialized neurological topics and broader issues of health and psychology. In addition to his scientific publications he wrote essays and books aimed at general audiences often exploring the relationship between mind and body as well as the social implications of medical knowledge. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1939140947977London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. iv 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine yellow topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to fly-leaf and final page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial toning to spine. Housed in a custom clamshell case black cloth over quarter black morocco titled in gilt. <p>A beautiful copy of Joyce's famously complex and linguistically innovative novel scarce in this condition. One of an edition of 3400 copies of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. Slocum A48. Faber and Faber unknown
1936018988New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened. Light soiling mostly to the rear; spine darkened. Near Fine. Small octavo 4-1/2" x 6-5/8" in publisher's cream-white boards spine lettered in blue front cover stamped in blue with floral ornaments. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. Copy #576 of 800 numbered copies. A Presentation copy with Joyce's engraved visiting-card INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso in green ink: "Avec mes meilleures/voeux pour Noël et/la Nouvelle Année. Paris '37 James Joyce." On the recto Joyce has scored through his name in green ink and there is a green ink blot in the upper left corner. <br/><br/> The Black Sun Press hardcover