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Joyce, James | No. 17 of 40 copies of the first edition of Joyce's James Clarence Mangan

Lot Closed

December 16, 09:26 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Joyce, James

James Clarence Mangan. London: Ulysses Bookshop (by H. D. C. Pepler), (1930)


12mo (145 x 112 mm, uncut). Fly-title. Publisher's cloth-backed purple boards with printed label on front cover, rear pastedown stamped in red "Made in England." Blue cloth folding-case, black morocco spine label.


First, limited, edition, no. 17 of only 40 copies for private circulation. Printed at the St. Dominic's Press. With the W.C. 2 imprint hand-corrected to W.C. 2. A fine copy.


REFERENCE:

Slocum & Cahoon A39


PROVENANCE:

The Rosenbach Foundation Museum (bookplate, with deaccession annotation, "Released ced 1976")