first edition
1939 · London
by Joyce, James
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. [iv], 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine, yellow topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to fly-leaf and final page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial toning to spine. Housed in a custom clamshell case, black cloth over quarter black morocco titled in gilt. A beautiful copy of Joyce's famously complex and linguistically innovative novel, scarce in this condition. One of an edition of 3,400 copies, of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. Slocum A48.
(Inventory #: 140947977)
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