[Rarebooks] FS: James Joyce, DUBLINERS, 1914, First Edition

[charles agvent]

One of several interesting James Joyce items in our list of New 
Arrivals for February at http://www.erols.com/agvent

JOYCE, JAMES. DUBLINERS. London: Grant Richards 1914. First Edition. 
Original red cloth with gilt lettering. The very scarce original 
edition of Joyce's landmark book comprised of 15 short stories 
including the title story, "Araby," and "The Dead." Of a total of 1250 
copies, this is one of only 746 copies bound by Richards with the 
other 504 sent to America for the edition published by B. W. Huebsch. 
A rare book seldom seen in any condition, this copy seems to have been 
either retouched or is something of an anomaly from the publisher. The 
red dye to the cloth seems streaked somewhat on the front cover with 
the gilt there mostly dull though the gilt on the spine is very 
strong. The endpapers, which are completely original, are dyed red and 
are wove while the text is laid paper. Slocum in his bibliography of 
Joyce notes that the endpapers should be cream-white and wove. We are 
unaware of any other copy that has red endpapers as does this one. In 
addition all edges are trimmed and dyed red as well; Slocum notes the 
trimming but says nothing about the color. Both blanks and the half 
title are of course present. The text is very clean with one page 
having several words rubbed resulting in light inking and someone has 
inked over several of the letters. On the front endpaper is the owner 
name of Fagge dated 1914. Overall Near Fine, lacking the extremely 
scarce dustwrapper.    $12,500

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