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JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Collected Poems. New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936.


8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Augustus John; text printed in blue. (Marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Original cream-white boards, upper cover with all-over floral decoration in blue, blue-lettered on spine, uncut (spine very slightly soiled, a few spots on edges); original glassine (tiny chip to front flap fold).

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF JOYCE’S POEMS, LIMITED ISSUE, number 289 of 800 copies. The collection includes Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach, as well as the poem “Ecce Puer,” first published in the January 1933 edition of Criterion. Slocum and Calhoun 44.


Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

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