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JOYCE (JAMES)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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JOYCE (JAMES)

Signed and inscribed copy of Ulysses, with his autograph inscription in black ink on the preliminary blank: "To Edward Irvine Halliday / James Joyce / Paris / 31 . iii . 924", first edition, fourth printing, [Slocum and Cahoon A17 note, p.25], blue cloth by Maltby of Oxford, leather label to spine, with the original white wrappers printed in blue bound in, 4 pages of Ulysses Additional Corrections at end, minor wear to boards, wrappers dust-marked, paper lightly browned overall and brittle as usual, some marginal tears, chips, 4to, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, January 1924

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AN INSCRIBED COPY OF ULYSSES: the painter Edward Halliday (1902-84) was a student at the Royal College of Art and attending life classes on a travel scholarship at the Académie Colarossi in Paris when Joyce inscribed this copy of Ulysses for him. His early murals 'demonstrate the classical basis of his academic training but also have a strangely dream-like atmosphere and complex narrative that is personal to Halliday' (Ann Compton, ODNB). He later went on to become a successful portrait-painter, with the Queen and Winston Churchill among his subjects, as well as having a career in broadcasting and working on 'black' wartime propaganda with Sefton Delmer.

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