Lot 198
  • 198

Joyce, James

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • ink and paper
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts. London: Grant Richards, 1918. [WITH:] New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918

Both 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 ins; 190 x 130 mm). Publisher's cloth-backed slate green paper-covered boards with printed labels to spine and upper cover on first volume, gilt spine title and blind-stamped upper cover on second; trace of wear to fore-edge of upper board, else very clean copies. Modern card slipcase housing both.

Provenance

William Ambrose Bissell bookplates (purchased at Argonaut Bookshop 1946)

Literature

Slocum and Cahoon A14 and A15

Catalogue Note

First English and American editions of Joyce's only play. So few copies of the American were sold that it failed to cover his advance from the publisher.