Lot 104
  • 104

Joyce, James.

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, (1914)
  • paper
8vo (192 x 128mm.), first published edition, one of approximately 746 copies bound, publisher's maroon cloth, spine and upper cover gilt-lettered, original green dust-jacket printed in black, green half morocco slipcase gilt, with green buckram chemise, minimal wear to binding, dust-jacket with minor chipping at spine ends and edges, hinges of spine and inner flaps expertly repaired, small tear restoredin lower left corner of front cover

Provenance

H. Bradley Martin, bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990, lot 2964

Literature

Slocum and Cahoon A8

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

This is a review copy with a printed slip requesting that no reviews appear before 15 June.

The publishing history is convoluted, but well-known. Grant Richards originally accepted the collection of short stories for publication in his first list of 1906. After skirmishes with printers over objectionable passages, the publisher abandoned the book. It was later picked up by Maunsel, who printed an edition of 1000 copies in 1910. After Joyce refused Maunsel's manager's request to make emendations to the text, the edition was destroyed. Joyce subsequently added two important stories - "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead" - to the collection. In 1914, the author returned to Richards, who published the book in June of that year.

The fine H. Bradley Martin copy, in the very rare dust-jacket.