JOYCE, James. Dubliners . London: Grant Richards, 1914. 8 o. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (text block partly cracked at center); PRINTED DUST JACKET (front hinge reinforced on verso, skilful repairs at ends of joints with top of letter "D" in title supplied in facsimile). Provenance : Crosby Gaige (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE VERY SCARCE DUST JACKET. Despite the conscienscious list of repairs noted above, A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS SCARCE SURVIVAL. 1,250 sets of sheets were printed, of which approximately 746 were bound in this edition. The remaining 504 sets were sold by Huebsch in New York. A FINE LITERARY ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO HIS PUBLISHER CROSBY GAIGE on the front free endpaper: "To Crosby Gaige James Joyce Paris 25.V.28." This inscription dates to just five months after Gaige published Anna Livia Plurabelle , a section of Finnegans Wake , in a signed limited edition of 850 copies. INSCRIBED COPIES OF 'DUBLINERS' ARE VERY SCARCE: according to American Book Prices Current, this is the only inscribed copy to appear at auction since 1959 (to Jacob Schwartz, also with a later inscription, from 1929). Copies in attractive dust jackets are almost equally rare, with only five appearing in ABPC in the last thirty years, three of which were fine examples: James Gilvarry (Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 357), Bradley Martin (Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2964) and Raymond Epstein (Swann Galleries, 29 April 1992, lot 262). On 28 November 1905 Joyce mailed the manuscript of Dubliners to Grant Richards, who accepted it for publication in February 1906 and announced it the following month in The First Catalogue of Books Published by Grant Richards . In April, however, objections from the printer halted production. Joyce wrote an angry letter to Richards on 5 May: "You tell me in conclusion that I am endangering my future and your reputation. I have shown you earlier in the letter the frivolity of the printer's objections and I do not see how the publication of Dubliners as it now stands in manuscript could possibly be considered an outrage on public morality..." (Herbert Gorman, James Joyce , pp.149). Although Joyce agreed to a few alterations, Richards soon abandoned his plans for Dubliners . Joyce offered the book to others, including Elkin Mathews and George Roberts at Maunsel. Maunsel printed an edition of 1,000 copies by July 1910 but this was destroyed by the printers because of objectionable passages. At the most, only a few sets of page proofs of this edition were retained by Joyce. Joyce returned to Richards on 23 November 1914, committed to publishing the book as it was written, which by then had grown by two stories, "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead," the masterpiece with which the collection concludes. Joyce guaranteed the sale of 130 copies in Trieste. Richards agreed, signed a contract on 4 March 1914 and published the book on 15 June. Slocum & Cahoon A8.
JOYCE, James. Dubliners . London: Grant Richards, 1914. 8 o. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (text block partly cracked at center); PRINTED DUST JACKET (front hinge reinforced on verso, skilful repairs at ends of joints with top of letter "D" in title supplied in facsimile). Provenance : Crosby Gaige (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE VERY SCARCE DUST JACKET. Despite the conscienscious list of repairs noted above, A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS SCARCE SURVIVAL. 1,250 sets of sheets were printed, of which approximately 746 were bound in this edition. The remaining 504 sets were sold by Huebsch in New York. A FINE LITERARY ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO HIS PUBLISHER CROSBY GAIGE on the front free endpaper: "To Crosby Gaige James Joyce Paris 25.V.28." This inscription dates to just five months after Gaige published Anna Livia Plurabelle , a section of Finnegans Wake , in a signed limited edition of 850 copies. INSCRIBED COPIES OF 'DUBLINERS' ARE VERY SCARCE: according to American Book Prices Current, this is the only inscribed copy to appear at auction since 1959 (to Jacob Schwartz, also with a later inscription, from 1929). Copies in attractive dust jackets are almost equally rare, with only five appearing in ABPC in the last thirty years, three of which were fine examples: James Gilvarry (Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 357), Bradley Martin (Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2964) and Raymond Epstein (Swann Galleries, 29 April 1992, lot 262). On 28 November 1905 Joyce mailed the manuscript of Dubliners to Grant Richards, who accepted it for publication in February 1906 and announced it the following month in The First Catalogue of Books Published by Grant Richards . In April, however, objections from the printer halted production. Joyce wrote an angry letter to Richards on 5 May: "You tell me in conclusion that I am endangering my future and your reputation. I have shown you earlier in the letter the frivolity of the printer's objections and I do not see how the publication of Dubliners as it now stands in manuscript could possibly be considered an outrage on public morality..." (Herbert Gorman, James Joyce , pp.149). Although Joyce agreed to a few alterations, Richards soon abandoned his plans for Dubliners . Joyce offered the book to others, including Elkin Mathews and George Roberts at Maunsel. Maunsel printed an edition of 1,000 copies by July 1910 but this was destroyed by the printers because of objectionable passages. At the most, only a few sets of page proofs of this edition were retained by Joyce. Joyce returned to Richards on 23 November 1914, committed to publishing the book as it was written, which by then had grown by two stories, "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead," the masterpiece with which the collection concludes. Joyce guaranteed the sale of 130 copies in Trieste. Richards agreed, signed a contract on 4 March 1914 and published the book on 15 June. Slocum & Cahoon A8.
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