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“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring”: First Edition of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses; number 276 of 750 Numbered Copies
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
First edition of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number 276. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In near fine condition, square and tight with a touch of rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 126933
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“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring”: First edition, first printing of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
First edition, first printing of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number 909. Thick quarto, bound in full morocco by Baker Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt scrolled inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 151271
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“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring”: First Edition of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses; One of 750 Numbered Copies
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
First edition of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number number 817. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In very good condition with some expert restoration to the spine and a crease to the front wrapper which has been coloured. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 142260
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James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses; Signed by Him
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.
Fourth printing of Joyce's masterpiece, signed by him. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "James Joyce Paris 7 January 1924." In very good condition, the joints lightly repaired. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 139635
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First Edition of Taking the Literary Pulse; Inscribed by Dr. Joseph Collins to James Joyce
COLLINS, Joseph [James Joyce].
Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.
New 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....
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 151436
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"Belongs on the shelf with Ibsen and Hauptmann": First American edition of James Joyce's Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
JOYCE, James.
Exiles. A Play in Three Acts.
New York: B. W. Heubsch, 1918.
First American edition, first printing of Joyce's beguiling piece of drama, staged in English only once in Joyce's lifetime and rarely revived. Octavo, original half cloth over grey boards, title stamped in blind to upper board, lettered in gilt to spine. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A very nice copy of this scarce work in the original jacket.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 144590
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916.
First American edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth, titles stamped in blind to the front panel. In very good condition. Housed in a custom hand-painted board slipcase in good condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 152253
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 106753
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake; In exceptional condition
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133129
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Rare Summer 1928 issue of Transition Number 13; containing "Continuation of a Work in Progress" by James Joyce
JOYCE, James; Pablo Picasso; Gertrude Stein; Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul [Editors].
Transition: An International Quarterly for Creative Experiment. Number 13. Summer, 1928.
Paris: Transition, 1928.
The summer 1928 issue of Transition, number 13, containing James Joyce's ongoing piece “Continuation of a Work in Progress." Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with the cover portrait by Picasso, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout including Berenice Abbott's famed portrait of James Joyce. “Continuation of a Work in Progress" is an excerpt of Joyce's experimental novel that would later be published as Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. In very good condition with loss to the spine. Cover by Pablo Picasso.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 149110
