[Rarebooks] FS: James Joyce: First Editions, Signed, Scarce. Part II
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Fri Jun 15 11:42:02 EDT 2007
9. JOYCE, James. EXILES. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. New York: B. W.
Huebsch 1918. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Published the same
day as the British Edition and likely in very small numbers as the
publisher stated in 1921 that only 388 copies had sold. Very nice
copy with just minor edgewear to the boards, the contents and spine
clean and bright. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. $450.00
10. JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First
Edition. The true First Printing of this modern classic. Copy #482 of
750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper of a total edition of
only 1000. Bound without the original blue paper covers in half brown
morocco with matching corners, spine lettered in gilt, with a
matching half morocco slipcase. A very nice copy priced very
attractively because the half title and title pages are in expert
facsimile. There is also a facsimile corner repair to one page. The
initial and rear blanks as well as the colophon leaf at the end are
lacking; the limitation leaf at the beginning is original. In order
to bring the book into an English-speaking country before 1934, a
number of people evidently tore off the wraps and title pages to
smuggle it in through customs. If you can live with this, you will
have on your shelf perhaps the most notable work of fiction written
in the twentieth century at a price you are not likely to encounter
elsewhere. Despite the defects, Very Good in a handsome slipcase.
$6000.00
11. JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Full
brown buckram with a gold embossed design on the front cover and
repeated on the spine. Large square octavo, 9" x 11-1/2", with 420
pages. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by
Henri Matisse including twenty drawings and six ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
printed by hand, being the earliest and one of the few instances by
Matisse to represent physical agony and violence. Copy #211 of 1500
SIGNED in pencil by the artist. Covers are remarkably bright, like
new with just a touch of rubbing to the central gilt device. The
front hinge was apparently cracked at one point but is now tight,
though whoever did the repair could have been more careful as part of
the free endpaper is adhered to the front pastdown at the gutter.
Very slightly shaken; contents fresh. Slipcase with archival tape
repairs along bottom edge and part of top edge. Very Good in soiled
Good or better slipcase. $5000.00
12. JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. London & Paris: Egoist Press - John Rodker
1922. First Edition. The First English Edition, printed in France
from the plates of the original edition. Copy #1120 of 2000 numbered
copies printed on handmade paper, of which some 500 are supposed to
have been seized and burnt by United States Customs officials though
the evidence for this is not conclusive. In contemporary full
gilt-ruled dark green morocco recently rebacked retaining nearly all
of the original spine; gilt lettering on the front cover and spine.
The original front blue wrap is bound in at the end. The eight pages
of "Errata" are present. Near Fine $3000.00
13. JOYCE, James. VERBANNTE. SCHAUSPIEL IN DREI AKTEN. Zurich:
Rascher & Cie. 1919. First Edition. Printed green wraps with pink
errata slip tipped in. The First German Edition of Joyce's play
EXILES. Translated by Hannah von Mettal and published in an edition
of 600 copies at Joyce's expense. Typical browning to the cheap paper
of the text, which is largely unopened, with the covers intact with
very little edgewear. Very Good or better for this fragile piece.
$400.00
14. (JOYCE, James) BECKETT, Samuel; WILLIAMS, William Carlos; et. al.
OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN
PROGRESS. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. First Edition. The
Regular Paper issue in printed wraps of Samuel Beckett's first
appearance in a book. An appreciation of Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Ink
underlining and marginal notes to about a dozen pages; owner name on
front endpaper. Loss of about an inch to the paper at the top of the
spine though the letters there are still mostly present. Loss to the
blank margins of just a few pages from being roughly opened. A Very
Good copy overall. $350.00
15. (JOYCE, James) GIEDION-WELCKER, C[arola] (editor). IN MEMORIAM.
JAMES JOYCE. Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth (1941). First Edition. Original
green printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of
Joyce's death mask and a facsimile of a letter by Joyce. Two of the
six articles in this issue are in English, the others in German.
Owner name and date on front endpaper. Several instances of brief ink
underlining and notes. Very Good with mild wear. $100.00
16. (JOYCE, James) SLOCUM, John J. and CAHOON, Herbert. A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941]. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press (1971). Reprint. Cloth. viii, [ii], 195 pages. Near Fine
without dustwrapper, as issued. $125.00
17. [JOYCE, James]. THE VENTURE. AN ANNUAL OF ART AND LITERATURE..
London: John Baillie 1905. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Includes
"Two Songs" by James Joyce, preceding his first book CHAMBER MUSIC by
two years. Other contributors to this annual include Arthur Symons,
Alice Meynell, Oliver Gogarty, and illustrators J. McNeil Whistler,
Frank Brangwyn, Arthur Rackham, and J. S. Sargent. Two of the minor
illustrations lacking in this copy. Rubbing and soiling to covers.
Very Good or better. $600.00
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