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Lot 123
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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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. Original cream-white boards, upper cover with all-over floral decoration in blue, blue-lettered on spine, uncut (lacking original glassine).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF JOYCE’S POEMS, LIMITED ISSUE, number 289 of 800 copies. The collection includes Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach (see lots 112 and 117), as well as the poem “Ecce Puer,” first published in the January 1933 edition of Criterion. Slocum and Calhoun 44.