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1907réf. 177849London: Elkin Mathews 1907. Love and laughter song-confessed / When the heart is heaviest First edition first issue of the author's first book prompting his resignation from his employment at a bank two months before publication. "These delicate lyrical verses were the work of the young poet of the college years and later" contrasting with the fiction which proved "a reversal of the earlier mood and view of the world" Costello p. 273. Publication took place on 10 May 1907 in a run of 509 copies which were not all bound at once. This first issue is slightly larger in size bound in a light green cloth with thick laid endpapers showing horizontal chain lines and it has the poems in signature C well-centred. The second and third variants were bound up in dark green cloth a few years later. They are both trimmed slightly smaller leaving the poems in signature C poorly centred. This copy is from the library of Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth CBE 1883-1951 the founder of the British Drama League who began working for the publisher Chatto & Windus in the same year Chamber Music was published. "Whitworth knew many writers established and new; through him the firm attracted works by such authors as G. K. Chesterton Lytton Strachey and Clive Bell". In 1934 George Bernard Shaw described Whitworth as "one of the most important people in the theatre today" ODNB. His ownership inscription is on the front free endpaper. Small octavo. Illustrated title page. Original light green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a dark green cloth chemise and gilt-decorated green morocco slipcase by Rene Patron of Hollywood. Cloth notably sharp notwithstanding mild rubbing and darkening of spine spots of soiling to a couple of leaves. A near-fine copy. Slocum & Cahoon A3 first variant. Peter Costello James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1992. hardcover
1918réf. 72305Boston: The Cornhill Company no-date 1918. First U.S. edition unauthorized. Precedes the authorized edition published the same year in New York. Slocum & Cahoon A5. Collection 36 poems. 16mo green cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover only; unpaginated. Small bookseller ticket to bottom front endpaper. Near fine with only light scattered foxing and barest rubbing to spine ends and tips. Lacking the plain glassine dust jacket. The Cornhill Company unknown
1927réf. 210713ALondon: Jonathan Cape Ltd. & The Medici Society Limited 1927. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st Cape Edition. 40 pages. Pages clean good condition. Previous owner's embossed stamp at bottom of half title page. Small bookseller label at bottom of front paste down endpaper. Black cloth wiht gilt title on spine. Spine and boards lightly stained and scratched. Head/tail of spine edges and corners lightly worn bumped. GOOD Jonathan Cape Ltd. & The Medici Society Limited hardcover
réf. 3849157369.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1015533434.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 336834188X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 3368341898.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1954réf. 018436New York: Columbia University Press 1954. viii 236pp two pages with notations and sparse underining; bottom front cover near spine has mild damage to cloth from dampstain Paper wraparound band present but torn into two pieces - repaired internally with crystal-clear tape. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Columbia University Press Hardcover
1918réf. 539152Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition issue with laid endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Small tape shadows on endpapers where a previous owner probably tried to preserve the original unprinted glassine apparently without success else a very near fine copy lacking the tissue dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A5: issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1918réf. 508502Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition issue with wove endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. A fine copy with text partially unopened in about fine publisher's unprinted tissue dust jacket with very slight wear. Slocum & Cahoon A5- issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1918réf. 506607Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition issue with wove endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Small ink squiggle on front pastedown and very small chip at the corner of rear fly near fine lacking the publisher's unprinted tissue dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A5: issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers with no priority determined. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1907réf. 514413London: Elkin Mathews 1907. Hardcover. Fine. First edition first issue. 16mo. 40pp. Light green cloth gilt. Contemporary owner name in blue pencil on front fly faint soil mark on front board the lettering on the spine is still bright thus near fine in a fine example of the publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket. The very scarce first issue of James Joyce's first trade book preceded by two broadsides. This is the first binding variant according to Smoot and Cahoon A3: "First variant: Thick laid end papers with horizontal chain lines. 16.2 x 11 cm. Poems in signature C well centered on page." Published in a total edition of 509 copies. According to booksellers Bernard Quaritch Bulletin 19 1984 only "fifty or a hundred" copies of the first variant were bound and issued in 1907. Contemporary presentation copies appear in the first binding and it certainly seems plausible that due to low demand only a small number of copies were bound in 1907. Elkin Mathews hardcover
1923réf. 506652New York: B.W. Huebsch 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second "Authorized" American edition with reset type. 12mo. 46pp. Black paper-covered boards stamped in gold. Owner's three-line ink rubberstamp aphorism on rear endpaper shallow loss at the crown and rubbing along the top of the boards very good or better lacking the dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A6 note. B.W. Huebsch hardcover
réf. 0670211273.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1406546720.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1923réf. 8567London: The Egoist Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Third Edition. Hardcover. London: Egoist Press 1923. Third Edition. Of the 500 copies printed only 107 were bound and distributed leaving 393 sheets that were acquired by Cape in 1924 and published by them in 1927. 12mo. 40p. Dark green cloth gilt letters on spine and front cover. Good only brief wear at edges faint blemishes and ring stain to covers short tear in cloth spine repaired with archival glue. Interior in very good condition endpapers toned gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. Slocum & Cahoon 4.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 40 pages . The Egoist Press hardcover
réf. B33179-F-JOYColumbia University Press. Collectible - Very Good. NY: Columbia Univ Press 1954. 1st. Hardcover 8vo 236 pgs. Very good to near fine with a very good original wrap-around band. Brick colored cloth with navy and gilt. Slight wear to spine ends. Contents clean and binding sound. Wrap-around band has slight edgewear and spine is toned. Band has 3.75 orig price on flap. Inquire if you need further information. Columbia University Press hardcover
1923réf. JOYCEJAM003964Huebsch New York. 1923. Second American edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. 36 poems. Black boards.Light foxing. Covers rubbed at the edges and bumped at head and tail of spine. Good in rubbed and extensively torn dustwrapper defective at the spine and repaired on the reverse. Huebsch, New York. hardcover
1923réf. 427747London: The Egoist Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. 12mo. Neat owner's name on front fly else very near fine. One of only 107 copies of this very scarce edition. The Egoist Press hardcover
1923réf. 000354New York: B. W. Huebsch 1923. Nick in spine top; covers slightly soiled; ink notation on frontfly. . Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. B. W. Huebsch Hardcover
1923réf. SB10218NY: B. W. Huebsch Inc. 1923. First published in America in 1918 this being the 1923 re-print; Foxed and age-toned textblock. Former owner's inked gift inscription on fep else clean and tight. The binding is edge-worn scratched and beaten up but the boards are still holding strong; Most of the spine is gone exposing the mull; Corners bumped and worn; Unpaginated. Publisher's Note says that this is the only American Edition of Chamber Music authorized by Mr. Joyce. First American Edition Early Reprint. Boards. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. B. W. Huebsch, Inc. Hardcover
1918réf. BB1432Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. First Unauthorized American Edition of Joyce's first regularly published work with print run estimated at 1000 copies. Small slim 8vo: 20 unnumbered leaves with 36 numbered Elizabethan-like poems chronicling the growth of a young poets love for a golden-haired woman the collection originally comprised 34 love poems but "All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land" which Yeats described as a "technical and emotional masterpiece" were added before publication. Publisher's green cloth upper cover lettered in gilt fore- and bottom edges untrimmed wove end papers some copies with laid end papers no known priority. Without the fragile transparent tissue wrapper. An exemplary example virtually pristine covers firmly attached binding tight gilt stamping sharp Slocum & Cahoon note variations in stamping. Slocum & Cahoon A5. Originally published in 1907 in London. The first authorized American edition published in New York by B. W. Huebsch appeared three months after this Cornhill issue. "Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot this is a later Joycean embellishment lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce by the time of publication had come to dislike . . . In Ulysses Leopold Bloom reflects 'Chamber music. Could make a pun on that.' In fact the poetry of Chamber Music is not in the least bawdy nor reminiscent of the sound of tinkling urine. In 1909 Joyce wrote to his wife 'When I wrote Chamber Music I was a lonely boy walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me.'" Wikipedia "As the title suggests Chamber Music is to be considered a set of songs rather than a collection of poems as Joyce clearly stated in a letter to the English composer Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer 15 July 1909: 'I hope you may set all of Chamber Music in time. This was indeed partly my idea in writing it. The book is in fact a suite of songs . . .' Besides Palmer a number of composers have set the poems to music including Samuel Barber." Literary Encyclopedia Note: With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. The Cornhill Company hardcover
1923réf. 1263HNew York: B. W. Huebsch 1923. 1st American Edition Stated. Hardcover. VG. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 37 pp. black paper hardcover bdg. with gilt-stamped titling on front board and blind-stamped on spine tec fore edge deckled. Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce published by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems but two further poems were added before publication "All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land". The present is the only American publication authorized by Joyce. Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot this is a later Joycean embellishment lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce by the time of publication had come to dislike: "The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent" he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. "I should prefer a title which repudiated the book without altogether disparaging it." VGlight shelf wear with tiny chips at bottom corners boards paper very slightly yellowed clean and tight copy In a custom made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS vis Canada Post Expedited; FREE OF CUSTOMS OR DUTY CHARGES. B. W. Huebsch hardcover
1927réf. 41807London: Jonathan Cape. VG. 1927. Later Printing. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 40 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. . Quick Shipping All Books Mailed in Boxes Free Tracking Provided . Jonathan Cape hardcover
