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James Joyce Haveth Childers Everywhere signed first edition
Published by Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, and the Fountain Press, New York, June 1930. Limited
edition of 685 copies; the first one hundred of which were printed on imperial handmade iridescent
Japanese velum and signed by Joyce in pencil on limitation page . This is no. 45. Printed and made in
France by Ducros et Colas. Quarto; original wrappers printed in green and black, with glassine jacket.
11.50 by 7.50in. (29.2 by 19.1cm)
Provenance
Cathach Books, Dublin; Whyte’s, 5 April 2008, lot 139; Whence purchased by the present owner
Literature:
John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A Bibliography of James Joyce (1882-1941), Greenwood Press,
Westport, CT, 1971, A41, pp. 53-4
Estimate €7000-€9000 (approx £5950-£7650)
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