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JOYCE (JAMES) James Clarence Mangan [From St. Stephen's, Dublin, May, 1902]; Ibsen's New Drama [From The Fortnightly Review London April 1900], EACH LIMITED TO 40 COPIES, THESE OUT-OF-SERIES "PRESS COPIES", INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER, [Jacob Schwartz], Ulysses Bookshop, 187 High Holborn, London, W.C.2 [amended in ink to W.C.1], [1930]
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JOYCE (JAMES)
James Clarence Mangan [From St. Stephen's, Dublin, May, 1902]; Ibsen's New Drama [From The Fortnightly Review London April 1900], EACH LIMITED TO 40 COPIES, THESE OUT-OF-SERIES "PRESS COPIES", INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER, untrimmed in publisher's cloth-backed purple boards, printed title label on each upper cover, preserved in later clear wrapper and single blue cloth solander box, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt "Mangan/ New Drama/ James A. Joyce/ Press Copies/ London (1930)", very slight rubbing at corners [Slocum & Cahoon 39-40], 16mo, [Jacob Schwartz], Ulysses Bookshop, 187 High Holborn, London, W.C.2 [amended in ink to W.C.1], [1930]
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EXTREMELY FINE ASSOCIATION COPIES OF THESE TWO JOYCE RARITIES, INSCRIBED BY JACOB SCHWARTZ. Both works were printed in editions of 40 numbered copies, along with an unspecified number which were marked '[Press Copy]... No copy for sale'.
Provenance: Jacob Schwartz; each volume inscribed to Houston Peterson ("with apologies from one of your students Jacob Schwartz, London, Sept 2, 1931"); 'House of Books' Catalogue, 1979, item 321.
"Bookdealer Jacob Schwartz is a shadowy and overlooked figure in Joycean biography and bibliography who nevertheless was an influential proponent of James Joyce's work... One of the first to recognize the market potential for letters and manuscripts of Joyce and other Modernist writers, Schwartz, through his promotion of Joyce in the book and manuscript trade from the 1930s into the 1950s, played a unique role in establishing the material basis of Joyce's reputation". However, the unauthorised publication of these two works had led "Sylvia Beach [to] scold Schwartz thoroughly for having gone ahead without Joyce's permission... This prompted a hostile letter of defense from Schwartz with a proposal that he publish a further edition of 250 copies each, to be signed by Joyce, with all profits over cost to be given to Joyce. The offer was not pursued. At any rate, the dispute over this piracy seemed to end Schwartz's direct relations with Joyce" (William S. Brockman, 'Jacob Schwartz - "The Fly in the Honey"', in Joyce Studies Annual, volume 9, University of Texas Press, Summer 1998, which includes a census of the 12 or so known 'Press Copies' of each work, including ours).
Houston Peterson (1897–1981) was a scholar and author of The Melody of Chaos, "A brilliant and original study of the chaos and bewilderment of modern life; explained particularly through the works of Joyce, Proust, T.E. Eliot and Conrad Aitken" (advertisement in the Virginia Quarterly Review, 1931).