Joyce James

Joyce James — marelibri

JOYCE, James, & F J C SkeffingtonBiblio.com

Two Essays.

1519ref. 183717Dublin: privately printed by Gerrard Bros. 15 October 1901. His first obtainable publication First edition of the author's first obtainable separate publication a plea for the freedom of the theatre published when he was 19. This copy is from the library of the 3rd Viscount Esher Oliver Brett 1881-1963 with his bookplate on the chemise. Joyce was a student at University College Dublin in 1901 when he penned The Day of the Rabblement. The essay and one advocating female equality within the university by Joyce's schoolmate F. J. C. Skeffington A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question were both rejected by the University College newspaper. In the case of Joyce's essay this was because he mentioned D'Annunzio's Il Fuoce which was on the Index librorum prohibitorum while Skeffington's essay was rejected owing to its radical content. Instead the two paid to have the essays published as a pamphlet in a small run which they hand-delivered. The exact number of copies printed is not recorded but was surely small. The figure cited in the 1933 Catalogue of Rare Books by the Ulysses Bookshop is as low as 85 while Skeffington's son estimated a run of around 100 to 200 copies Slocum & Cahoon. Only a small number of these were preserved since Joyce did not reach any degree of literary fame for many years. In the essay Joyce attacks the Irish theatre for catering to popular tastes and promotes free expression. "Joyce was stirred by a group of fellow university students - the 'rabble' of the title - signing a letter of protest on political and religious grounds against the Irish Literary Theatre's first performance of The Countess Cathleen by W B Yeats. Joyce critiques the Irish Literary Theatre for its response to the protest which Joyce claims saw them bow to public pressure and 'prejudice' and become 'shy of presenting Ibsen Tolstoy or Hauptmann'. In Joyce's opinion the work of these three European writers was profound innovative and worthy of attention. Significantly the essay shows Joyce upholding the principle of artistic freedom and condemning censorship in all its forms - an outlook that he would maintain throughout his career" British Library 'The Day of the Rabblement'. Joyce's only previously published works were Et Tu Healy! a pamphlet printed by his father when he was aged nine of which no known copies survive and an article on Ibsen included in the Fortnightly Review April 1900. Octavo 8 pp. Original pink wrappers printed in black. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise. Front wrapper slightly toned at edges rear wrapper browned else clean. A very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon B1. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Reino Unido£ 12.500,00≈ € 14.875,99

JOYCE, JAMESBiblio.com

HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE. FRAGMENT FROM WORK IN PROGRESS

1930ref. ST15753bParis: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE. No. 24 OF 100 COPIES ON IRIDESCENT HANDMADE JAPON SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies. 283 x 191 mm. 11 1/8 x 7 1/2". 72 2 pp. Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine leaves untrimmed and UNOPENED IN THE ORIGINAL GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPPER. The whole in the original slightly rubbed three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper. Without the original slipcase. Title printed in green and black initials and headlines printed in green. Inside front cover of folder with bookplate of John Kobler see below. Slocum & Cahoon A-41. Corners just slightly bumped one small faint brown spot to tissue cover but AN OUTSTANDING COPY the very fragile and always-torn glassine entirely intact and the text with no signs of use most of it never having seen the light of day. This luxury version of an excerpt from "Finnegans Wake" is printed on especially pleasing handmade paper that glows like a pearl. In his book review for the New York Times 11 January 1931 Herbert Matthews says this fragment is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics which is not without its profit and amusement." However he admits "after an honest and patient effort backed by a previous reading of all of Mr. Joyce's work 'Haveth Childers Everywhere' still remained absolutely incomprehensible" and he expresses concern that "Mr. Joyce has gone a little further on the path he is hewing for himself toward what seems to be complete linguistic chaos." Perhap our previous owner found it equally rough going for this copy has obviously never been read. That owner could well have been the prolific biographer John Kobler 1910-2000 who wrote biographies of among others Al Capone John Hunter and John Barrymore and who contributed regularly to the New Yorker Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Fountain Press unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Estados UnidosUS$ 13.000,00≈ € 11.591,62

Joyce James

Joyce James

Século

Linguagem

País do livreiro

Fotos

Adicionado

Assuntos

Catálogos

Século

Linguagem

País do livreiro

Fotos

Adicionado

Assuntos

Catálogos

Século

Linguagem

País do livreiro

Fotos

Adicionado

Assuntos

Catálogos