Joyce, James | No. 21 of 40 copies of the first edition of Joyce's Ibsen's New Drama

Joyce, James

Ibsen's New Drama. 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. 21 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.

This review of When We Dead Awaken originally appeared in Fortnightly Review, April 1900, and was Joyce's first publication. A fine copy.

REFERENCE:

Slocum & Cahoon A40

PROVENANCE:

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