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The Eclectic Collector · 17 September 2016
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James Joyce, Poems Penyeach
1927 Shakespeare and Company, Paris. First Edition of Joyce’s second collection of poems. Small 8vo, sewn in
original papered boards printed in green, with errata slip tipped in.
4.87 x 3¾in. (12.37 x 9.53cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £90-£130
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 150151
James Joyce Portrait of the Artist
London: Egoist Press, [1917], 1917. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles in blind to upper board and to spine gilt.
First edition, English issue from American sheets, published 12 February 1917. Joyce’s first novel was published in
America by Huebsch, from whom Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press, purchased “not more
than 750” sets of sheets, issuing them here a year before her own UK printing of March 1918.
Estimate €120-€180 £100-£150
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 151