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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.
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.