May 11, 2023 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
117
Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
JOYCE, JAMES
Chamber Music. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First edition. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, the third variant with thin wove endpapers, this example without glassine. 6 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (16.4 x 10.5 cm); 40 pp. A near-fine copy with the spine tips and corners minutely rubbed, a trifle overopened before B1; Together with Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. Original boards printed in green. Sheets 11.9 x 9.3 cm. Spine rebacked with a near matching paper, stains and facing to boards.
Chamber Music is Joyce's rare first published full-length poetry collection, one of only 509 copies estimated printed. Slocum & Cahoon A3; the second work A24.
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Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
JOYCE, JAMES
Chamber Music. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First edition. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, the third variant with thin wove endpapers, this example without glassine. 6 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (16.4 x 10.5 cm); 40 pp. A near-fine copy with the spine tips and corners minutely rubbed, a trifle overopened before B1; Together with Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. Original boards printed in green. Sheets 11.9 x 9.3 cm. Spine rebacked with a near matching paper, stains and facing to boards.
Chamber Music is Joyce's rare first published full-length poetry collection, one of only 509 copies estimated printed. Slocum & Cahoon A3; the second work A24.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023
