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New York : Limited Editions Club, 1935.

First illustrated edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses, one of only 250 examples signed by James Joyce in pen and Henri Matisse in pencil, with 26 illustrations by him, one of the 20th-century’s most desirable illustrated books, combining the work of two great modern artists. Large quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth, original slipcase. In fine condition with the rare original slipcase which is in good condition and original glassine jacket. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. An exceptional example, most rare in this condition and in the seldom seen glassine jacket.

Price: $30,000.00 Item Number: 140072

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James Joyce's First Privately Printed Edition copy of Marguerite Finaly's Reliquiae; with his ownership inscription

FINALY, Marguerite. [James Joyce].

Reliquiae.

Paris: Privately Printed, 1925.

James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo, bound in full crushed morocco by G. Cretté with gilt titles to the spine, silk-watered doublures and endleaves, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page, "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head of La Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas from 1919 to 1937, and enabled several major French-American industrial collaborations. He is referred to in Finnegans Wake, which Joyce was writing at the time of his inscription: "Play actors by us ever have crash to their gate. Mr.Messop and Mr Borry will produce of themselves, as they're twof genitalmen of Veruno, Sernior Nowno and Senior Brolano (finaly! finaly!), all for love of a fair penitent that, a she be broughton, rhoda's a rosy she. Their two big skins! How they strave to gat her! Such a boyplay!" In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare and desirable from Joyce's pe...

Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 131904

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“Tell me. Tell me with your eyes": First Edition of Exiles: A Play in Three Acts; Signed by James Joyce

JOYCE, James.

Exiles: A Play in Three Acts.

New 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.

Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 144094

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First Edition of Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress; signed by Marcel Brion and twice by Samuel Beckett

BECKETT, Samuel; Marcel Brion; Frank Budgen; Stuart Gilbert; Eugene Jolas; Victor Llona; Robert McAlmon; Thomas McGreevy; Elliot Paul; John Rodker; Robert Sage; William Carlos Williams; G.V.L. Slingsby; Vladimir Dixon [James Joyce].

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929.

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.

Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 148668

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