Joyce, James

4to, Shakespeare and Company's "seventh printing", presentation copy inscribed by the author ("To | Bampton Hunt | James Joyce | Paris | 25.IV.[1]926") on preliminary blank, original blue wrappers lettered on spine and upper wrapper in white, some minor spotting and browning, extremities worn with some minor loss to spine

Bampton Hunt, author's presentation inscription

Slocum and Cahoon p. 25

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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The recipient, Bampton Hunt, had been the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post in 1924 and was author of Folk Tales of Breffny (1912) and editor, with John Parker, of The Green Room Book; or, Who's Who on the Stage (1906-) He is not mentioned in Joyce's letters or by Ellmann. Slocum and Cahoon note that this printing is noted in the book itself as October 1925 but December 1925 in later notices. The eighth printing is dated May 1926 and the inscription is therefore in the most recently published edition.