first edition
1914 · London
by Joyce, James
London: Grant Richards, 1914. First edition. Fine. One of 746 copies printed for Grant Richards. Finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in recent full red morocco, gilt titles, raised bands with gilt spine compartments, ruled in gilt on the front and rear boards, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Housed in a full red morocco clamshell case. A Fine copy overall.
Joyce’s first work of fiction, comprising fifteen short stories, including “Dubliners,” “The Dead,” and “Araby.” The collection was initially submitted to Richards in 1905, after which two attempts to publish it were thwarted by censorship before this first edition in 1914. According to Day, Joyce “intended ‘to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city’; the paralysis is intellectual, moral, and spiritual.” The work “is militantly opposed to the contemporary Celtic Renaissance. To the dreamy or patriotic effusions of his fellow Irishmen, Joyce countered with uncompromising depictions of the Irish decay, banality, and tawdriness.”
Slocum and Cahoon A-8. Fine. (Inventory #: 6611)
Joyce’s first work of fiction, comprising fifteen short stories, including “Dubliners,” “The Dead,” and “Araby.” The collection was initially submitted to Richards in 1905, after which two attempts to publish it were thwarted by censorship before this first edition in 1914. According to Day, Joyce “intended ‘to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city’; the paralysis is intellectual, moral, and spiritual.” The work “is militantly opposed to the contemporary Celtic Renaissance. To the dreamy or patriotic effusions of his fellow Irishmen, Joyce countered with uncompromising depictions of the Irish decay, banality, and tawdriness.”
Slocum and Cahoon A-8. Fine. (Inventory #: 6611)
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