Title: Dubliners Author: Joyce, James Place: London Publisher: Grant Richards Ltd. Date: [1914] Description: 278 pp. 7½x5, reddish cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. The rare first edition of Joyce’s famous short stories; this being one of only 746 copies bound for London publisher Grant Richards. Joyce would receive no royalties on the first 500 copies sold and would personally guarantee to purchase 120 copies, and, furthermore gave Richards the first refusal on all his works for the following five years. Under these extremely beneficial terms, Richards printed 1,250 sets of sheets, of which Slocum and Cahoon state "approximately 746 were bound in this edition." Slocum & Cahoon A8. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to cloth, spine darkened, chip to head, corners bumped; bookplate, about very good, in custom-made folding cloth box. Item number: 213691
Title: Dubliners Author: Joyce, James Place: London Publisher: Grant Richards Ltd. Date: [1914] Description: 278 pp. 7½x5, reddish cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. The rare first edition of Joyce’s famous short stories; this being one of only 746 copies bound for London publisher Grant Richards. Joyce would receive no royalties on the first 500 copies sold and would personally guarantee to purchase 120 copies, and, furthermore gave Richards the first refusal on all his works for the following five years. Under these extremely beneficial terms, Richards printed 1,250 sets of sheets, of which Slocum and Cahoon state "approximately 746 were bound in this edition." Slocum & Cahoon A8. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to cloth, spine darkened, chip to head, corners bumped; bookplate, about very good, in custom-made folding cloth box. Item number: 213691
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