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JOYCE (JAMES) Chamber Music, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Elkin Mathews, 1907
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Chamber Music, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with laid paper endpapers, the correct centering of the text in signature C and the lighter shade of cloth used for the binding, decorative title-page, light offsetting to free endpapers, publisher's light green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine, spine very slightly bumped [Slocum & Cahoon A3], 16mo, Elkin Mathews, 1907
Footnotes
A FINE COPY OF JOYCE'S SCARCE FIRST PUBLISHED VOLUME OF POETRY. Preceded only by the poem Et tu, Healy (of which no printed copies are known), and the broadside The Holy Office (see preceding lot), Chamber Music was published in an edition of 509 copies at the encouragement of Arthur Symons, who had been introduced to Joyce by Yeats in December 1902. Quaritch ('Bulletin 19', 1984) argue that only "fifty or a hundred" copies of the first variant were bound and issued in 1907.





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