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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 194

JOYCE (JAMES) AND F.J.C. SKEFFINGTON
Two Essays. "A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question" by F.J.C. Skeffingon and "The Day of the Rabblement" by James A. Joyce, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 85 COPIES], Dublin, Gerrard Bros., [1901]

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JOYCE (JAMES) AND F.J.C. SKEFFINGTON

Two Essays. "A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question" by F.J.C. Skeffingon and "The Day of the Rabblement" by James A. Joyce, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 85 COPIES], publisher's pink printed title wrappers, stapled as issued, minor nick at lower corner as commonly found [Slocum & Cahoon B1], 8vo, Dublin, Gerrard Bros., [1901]

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JOYCE'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM AND HIS SECOND APPEARANCE IN PRINT: A FINE COPY. This pamphlet was printed after both articles were rejected for publication in the University College Dublin magazine, St Stephen's. Joyce's contribution, criticising the Irish Literary Theatre, had been turned down because of a reference to D'Annunzio's Il Fuoce, which was listed in the Index librorum prohibitorum; the article by Skeffington (a pacifist, feminist and vegetarian who was killed in the Easter Uprising of 1916) was refused because it advocated equal status for women at the University. Undeterred, the impecunious students put together the necessary £2-5-0 and had the pamphlet printed at the stationer's across the green on 31 October 1901. Slocum and Cahoon suggest that 85 copies were printed, a figure repeated by Ellmann. It represents Joyce's first appearance in book form and his second appearance in print ('Ibsen's New Drama' had appeared in Fortnightly Review in April 1900).

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