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Lot 263
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Lot Description
[Literature] Joyce, James. The Venture. An Annual of Art of Literature
Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham, editors. London: John Baillie, 1903, 1905. First edition. Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, 4to. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles S. Ricketts, Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, and others. Original pictorial bindings, extremities toned, some rubbing to edges.
First edition, containing Joyce's first appearance in a book.
Also contains Maugham's first play, "Marriages are Made in Heaven," along with contributions from G.K. Chesterton (first publication of "The Philosophy of Islands"), Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy (first publication of "The Market-Girl"), A.E. Housman (first publication of "The Oracles"), Laurence Housman ("Proverbial Romances"), John Masefield, Laurence Binyon, etc. The first of only two issues of this literary annual.
Selections of W. Somerset Maugham from the Collection of Craig V. Showalter
This lot is located in Chicago.
