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JOYCE (JAMES) Collected Poems, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 18 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, New York, Caresse Crosby for the Black Sun Press, 1936 image 1
JOYCE (JAMES) Collected Poems, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 18 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, New York, Caresse Crosby for the Black Sun Press, 1936 image 2
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Collected Poems, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 18 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, New York, Caresse Crosby for the Black Sun Press, 1936

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JOYCE (JAMES)

Collected Poems, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 18 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 800 copies, printed in blue, portrait of the author by Augustus John (beneath which Joyce's signature appears), this copy also signed below the colophon by the publisher, Caresse Crosby, publisher's cream-white boards stamped in gilt with an all-over design of 23 floral ornaments, t.e.g., glassine jacket (chipped, with some loss principally to lower panel), original gilt slipcase with extremities worn and tears to joints [Slocum & Cahoon A44], small 8vo, New York, Caresse Crosby for the Black Sun Press, 1936

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FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF JOYCE'S POEMS, ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON AUGUSTUS JOHN'S CRAYON PORTRAIT. This collection includes 'Chamber Music' and 'Pomes Penyeach', as well as a new poem 'Ecce Puer', written on the occasion of the birth of his grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and in memory of his father. It was first published in the New Republic in November 1932.

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