Lot 54
  • 54

Joyce, James

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Description

Dubliners. London: Grant Richards Ltd., [1914]



8vo (7 ½ x 4 7/8 in.; 191 x 124 mm.); lightly browned. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered title on upper cover and spine, in a green half-morocco drop box; small tears at head and foot of spine, edges rubbed.

Literature

Slocum & Cahoon A8

Catalogue Note

First edition.

Joyce had made two unsuccessful attempts to publish Dubliners but eventually came to an agreement with Grant Richards in which Joyce would receive no royalties on the first 500 copies sold and would promise to buy 120 copies, giving Richards first refusal on all his works for the next five years.