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Lot 117
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927.
Small 12mo. Errata slip tipped to final leaf. Original pale green boards printed in dark green (light browning to edges); green cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, a collection of 13 poems written in Trieste, Zurich and Paris from 1913-1920. “The title of the collection evokes the slurred pronunciation of a street hawker crying his wares – poems for a penny – to the passing crowd” (Fargnoli and Gillespie, James Joyce A-Z, p.180). Slocum and Calhoun A24.