Joyce, James

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Joyce, James
Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928
paper

8vo (176 x 115mm.), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 COPIES ON PALE GREEN-TINTED PAPER (this being copy no.3), out of a total edition of 850, original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with triangular gilt design on upper cover, collector's matching quarter green morocco clamshell box, title page detached, minor browning to endpapers

Provenance

Esther M. Hawley, bookplate

Literature

Slocum & Cahoon A32

Catalogue Note

800 copies were printed on cream-white wove paper and issued in brown cloth (these were signed by Joyce); 50 special copies were issued as here on green paper in black cloth. Most were not for sale.