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Jun. 20, 2024
Joyce (James, 1882-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'James Joyce'
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Joyce (James, 1882-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'James Joyce' * Joyce (James, 1882-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'James Joyce', La Résidence, Paris, 4 October 1931, to Mrs Pinker on hotel stationery, beginning, 'For goodness sake do not allude ever again to my dreadful injury that night at your house. What happened to my voice I do not know l'est pour bien plus!', regretting that they cannot dine with them and hoping that they will do soon, and asking her to tell Mr Pinker 'the absurd passage about cricket is marked on p. 231 of the Paris Magazine which I am sending him today. He will remember I spoke to him about it, a few minor spots, written in black ink on the first and fourth page of a bifolium, 2 pp., 8vo, together with an earlier Autograph Letter Signed from 'Rolly', Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, 11 July 1929, to Vonnie & Ralf, saying that he is longing to hear about Rabbit from Betty in her next letter, 'Yesterday I called on the important New York House of Jas Pinker & Co. and made myself known to your brother ... I have had a most interesting time during the short time available and wish I could stay much longer and go to other parts of America and also have a glimpse of Canada... ', 4 pp., square 8vo, plus an Autograph Letter Signed from Trevor R. V. Blakemore to Mrs Pinker, Sark, Channel Islands, 16 May 1931, asking her whether she would care to come down to Ranelagh on a polo afternoon and 'I do hope the remainder of my poems come up to your very kind estimation of the prelude poem, and that it was of some use to your husband in his sad loss... ', some overall spotting, filing holes to left margin, 2 pp., 4to QTY: (3) NOTE: James Joyce and his wife, Nora Barnacle, were married on 4 July 1931 and moved to Paris where they lived in the hotel La Residence between September and October 1931. The literary agency of James Pinker & Sons was founded by James Brand Pinker and, upon his death, was run by his two sons Eric Seabrooke and James Randolph until November 1930 when the partnership was dissolved. Eric moved to New York and James stayed in Britain. Yvonne 'Vonnie' Pinker was the wife of James Randolph Pinker, the literary agent for James Joyce. See J. H. Stape, '"The Pinker of Agents": A Family History of James Brand Pinker', The Conradian, 34 (1), (2009), pp. 111-143.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Mar. 21, 2024
JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysses. Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysses. Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 1922. JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysses. Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Exemplaire sur "handmade paper" de l'édition originale, en sobre et élégant demi-maroquin bleu. Boudée par les principaux éditeurs français, l'œuvre majeure de Joyce est publiée dans sa version originale en 1922, par Sylvia Beach, Américaine vivant à Paris. Dans une lettre visionnaire du 6 juillet 1921 adressée à Jacques Rivière, alors directeur de la NRF, l'écrivain Valery Larbaud, que Joyce considérait comme "la seule personne ayant compris quelque chose au livre", déplorait ce désintérêt : "Une fois Ulysses publié, Joyce sera l'écrivain le plus célèbre, le plus scandaleusement célèbre du monde. [...] Une belle occasion de perdue pour la NRF". Bien peu nombreux étaient en effet "ceux qui, à l'époque, ont défendu Joyce sans aucune arrière-pensée et sans revirement" (Pierre Guglielmina). Slocum & Cahoon A17. In-4 (232 x 182 mm). Édition originale. Un des 750 exemplaires sur "handmade paper" (vergé), celui-ci le n°281 (minimes réparations en marge extérieure du faux-titre et du titre, petite mouillure en marge extérieure du cahier 46). Reliure de l'époque : demi-maroquin bleu à coins, gardes de papier marbré pailleté d'or, couverture et dos conservés, tête dorée sur témoins. étui (restaurations au dos de la couverture, dos de la reliure légèrement insolé). First edition, one of the 750 copies on handmade paper, in an elegant half-blue morocco binding.
Christie's
Mar. 21, 2024
Bibliothèque André Guichard JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysse. Paris : La M
Est: €600 - €800
Bibliothèque André Guichard JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des Amis des Livres - Adrienne Monnier, 1929. JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des Amis des Livres - Adrienne Monnier, 1929. Exemplaire sur Arches de la première édition française, relié par Devauchelle. La traduction en français, qui débute en 1924, est le fruit du travail d'Auguste Morel et de Stuart Gilbert; elle est ensuite révisée par Valery Lerbaud et Joyce lui-même. Slocum & Cahoon, D17. In-8 (232 x 186 mm). Première édition française. Un des 100 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches (second papier après 25 sur Hollande), celui-ci le n°67. Reliure signée d'Alain Devauchelle, datée 2006 (sur l'emboîtage) : buffle bleu marine, plats ornés en partie médiane de grands listels verticaux de buffle bleu marine, plat supérieur orné en son milieu d'une large bande en relief biseautée, mi-buffle bleu mi-buffle blanc, avce le titre l'ouvrage en lettres mosaïquées en deux parties alternées, dos lisse avec nom de l'auteur mosaïqué en relief en buffle bleu marine, doublure et garde de daim gris clair, couverture conservée, emboîtage. Arches wove copy of the first French translation, in an inlaid binding by Devauchelle.
Christie's
Sep. 28, 2023
JAMES JOYCE Finnegans Wake James Joyce "JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
JAMES JOYCE Finnegans Wake James Joyce "JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber Limited; New York: The Viking Press, 1939. "First edition, limited issue, signed by Joyce and preserving the original slipcase and mailing carton. This is no. 187 of 425 copies printed on handmade paper and specially bound. One of Joyce’s final published works, Finnegans Wake pushes the boundaries of literary experimentation by employing a cyclical structure that defies conventional concepts of beginning and end. The book was jointly issued by Faber & Faber and The Viking Press, with the first 125 copies reserved for the UK and the remaining 300 for the US. Slocum & Cahoon A49. "Octavo. (Trivial intermittent spotting.) Original brick red buckram, lettered in gilt on spine, bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge gilt (faintest wear to corners); publisher’s yellow cloth slipcase and original mailing carton both bearing the number 187 (slipcase with minor wear and soiling; carton somewhat worn and darkened, pen marks to one edge, lacking one flap); modern slipcase lettered in gilt on spine.
Christie's
Sep. 28, 2023
JAMES JOYCE Ulysses James Joyce "JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. London:
Est: £15,000 - £25,000
JAMES JOYCE Ulysses James Joyce "JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. "First British edition issued in a deluxe limited format of 100 copies bound in vellum, numbered 24 and signed by the author in ink. This edition was based on the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition of 1933, with the addition of appendices: ‘International Protest’ and ‘Injunction against Samuel Roth,’ a letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf with other materials on the court case which lifted the ban on publication, and Pertzhoff's ‘Bibliography.’ Slocum and Cahoon 23 "Large 8vo (254 x 190mm). Printed on mould-made paper, title printed in blue and black, publisher's prospectus ‘final and definitive edition’ loosely inserted at pp.36-7 (the prospectus with very minor significant spotting confined to margins and this offsetting slightly onto adjacent pp.36-7 in the book). Original vellum by the Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co., covers stamped with Homeric bow design after Eric Gill in gilt, titled in gilt on spine, top edges gilt (just a few very minor spots on fore-edge); original decorative-paper covered slipcase (insignificant discolouration to sides, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Harold Arnold (loosely inserted invoice and receipt dated 15 October 1936 for his purchase of the book from the publisher for 4 guineas – some 2 guineas cheaper than the price advertised on the label on the slipcase; together with some newspaper clippings and pencilled notes relating to Joyce and Ulysses).
Christie's
Jul. 13, 2023
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941)
Est: €500 - €600
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of Joyce in the hand of an administrative agent, four pages, 4to, Paris, 21st April 1939, in French. The official Reseau Telephonique de Paris (Paris Telephone Network) document is Joyce's contract to have a telephone line installed at 34 rue des Vignes in Paris for an annual fee of six hundred and sixty francs, the head of the first page stamped Transfert ('Transfer') and a further stamp with manuscript insertions to the third page confirming that the document replaces an earlier commitment to have a telephone line at 7 rue Edmond Valentin and that the minimum duration of the subscription is still in place. The foot of the third page is signed on behalf of Joyce with the observation 'Lu et accepté' (Translation: 'Read and accepted'). A moving document relating to Joyce's last private residence in Paris. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG James Joyce first came to Paris in July 1920 and would reside in the French capital for almost two decades, although the writer never bought a home of his own. Joyce's health problems afflicted him throughout his Paris years and despite over a dozen eye operations his vision severely declined and by the 1930s he was practically blind, making the telephone an important method of communication and explaining why he was unable to sign the present document. Joyce lived in an elegant apartment at 7 rue Edmond Valentin, close to the River Seine and Eiffel Tower, for five years from February 1935 until April 1939 before moving into a smaller apartment (although blessed with a lot of natural light) at 34 rue des Vignes on 15th April 1939. Finnegans Wake was published whilst Joyce was living in the apartment, which he would leave after six months in mid-October 1939. Following the fall of France in 1940 Joyce and his family travelled to Zurich to flee the Nazi occupation. On 11th January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery and fell into a coma the next day, awaking briefly at 2 am on 13th January before dying fifteen minutes later.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Mar. 15, 2023
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941)
Est: €500 - €600
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of Joyce in the hand of an administrative agent, four pages, 4to, Paris, 21st April 1939, in French. The official Reseau Telephonique de Paris (Paris Telephone Network) document is Joyce's contract to have a telephone line installed at 34 rue des Vignes in Paris for an annual fee of six hundred and sixty francs, the head of the first page stamped Transfert ('Transfer') and a further stamp with manuscript insertions to the third page confirming that the document replaces an earlier commitment to have a telephone line at 7 rue Edmond Valentin and that the minimum duration of the subscription is still in place. The foot of the third page is signed on behalf of Joyce with the observation 'Lu et accepté' (Translation: 'Read and accepted'). A moving document relating to Joyce's last private residence in Paris. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG James Joyce first came to Paris in July 1920 and would reside in the French capital for almost two decades, although the writer never bought a home of his own. Joyce's health problems afflicted him throughout his Paris years and despite over a dozen eye operations his vision severely declined and by the 1930s he was practically blind, making the telephone an important method of communication and explaining why he was unable to sign the present document. Joyce lived in an elegant apartment at 7 rue Edmond Valentin, close to the River Seine and Eiffel Tower, for five years from February 1935 until April 1939 before moving into a smaller apartment (although blessed with a lot of natural light) at 34 rue des Vignes on 15th April 1939. Finnegans Wake was published whilst Joyce was living in the apartment, which he would leave after six months in mid-October 1939. Following the fall of France in 1940 Joyce and his family travelled to Zurich to flee the Nazi occupation. On 11th January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery and fell into a coma the next day, awaking briefly at 2 am on 13th January before dying fifteen minutes later.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Oct. 19, 2022
James Joyce. Sa vie, son oeuvre, son rayonnement. Paris, La Hune, 1949.
Est: €30 - €50
James Joyce. Sa vie, son oeuvre, son rayonnement. Paris, La Hune, 1949. In-8 (21,5 x 16,3 cm). Catalogue de l'exposition James Joyce à la Galerie - Librairie La Hune à Paris en 1949. Tirage limité à 1500 exemplaires. Estimation 30 - 50 €
Artcurial
May. 12, 2022
JOYCE, James (1881-1941) ULYSSE. PARIS : LA MAISON DES AMIS DES LIVRES, 192
Est: €800 - €1,200
JOYCE, James (1881-1941) ULYSSE. PARIS : LA MAISON DES AMIS DES LIVRES, 1929
Christie's
Apr. 07, 2022
JOYCE JAMES: (1882-1941)
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
JOYCE JAMES: (1882-1941) Irish Novelist. Regarded as one of the more influential writers of the 20th century, he is best known for his work Ulysses (1922). A fine A.L.S., `James Joyce, ´two pages, oblong small 8vo card, Paris, n.d., [December 1925 - early 1926], on his personal printed stationery card, bearing to the upper right corner his Parisian address ''2, Square Robiac, 192 Rue de Grenelle VII'', to Mr. Suter, in French. Joyce annotates beneath his printed address a telephone `Tel - Segur 95-20'', and states 'Dear Suter, if Madame Suter is in Paris, maybe she could come here for tea time on Wednesday at 4 or 4h30. My wife wishes to talk to her - not about the servants. If not, would you give me a telephone call?´ Joyce further refers to his health problems saying `How are you? Hope you are well. I have suffered a seventh surgery. It was rather bad this time.´ Joyce had multiple eye-operations during his life. He refers here to the two operations he had in December 1925. Creasing to the left border and upper right corner, not affecting the text and signature, otherwise G Auguste Suter (1887-1965) Swiss Sculptor. Considered one of the greatest Swiss sculptors of all time. Suter and Joyce shared a close and friendly relationship. Suter´s clay sculpture of James Joyce did not survive WWII. Suter´s wife, a professional singer, gave singing lessons to Joyce´s daughter Lucia.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Feb. 26, 2022
JOYCE, James (1882–1941). Finnegans Wake. New York: The Vik...
Est: $100 - $200
JOYCE, James (1882–1941). Finnegans Wake. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. 8vo. Original publisher’s black gilt-lettered cloth, top edge stained blue (tiny spots of fraying near crown corners, else fine). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, offset from proofs supplied by the English publisher, Faber and Faber (see previous lot). Slocum and Cahoon A48.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Feb. 26, 2022
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & F...
Est: $600 - $800
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; original unclipped dust jacket (tears and missing sections at extremities, archival tape repairs to verso). Includes Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake pamphlet, prepared by James Joyce shortly after the book’s publication (printed 1945). Provenance: Kenneth Muir (inscription). FIRST TRADE EDITION OF WHICH ONLY 2,255 COPIES WERE SOLD TO THE PUBLIC. A rare edition of Joyce’s final work, scarce in dust jacket. Slocum and Cahoon, A47; Connolly 87.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Oct. 15, 2021
MATISSE, HENRI. 1869-1954. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
MATISSE, HENRI. 1869-1954. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4to (298 x 230 mm). 6 softground etched plates, with 20 illustrations of preliminary sketches for the etchings on variously sized blue and yellow paper, all by Matisse. Publisher's cloth stamped with abstract time-piece design including Matisse's Nausicaa embossed in gold on the front cover, spine decorated in gilt, clean, hinges started, publisher's slipcase, reinforced at upper and lower panels, custom morocco backed folding box. Provenance: Paul and Ruth Bishop (bookplate to pastedown). A FINE COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO OF THE GREAT LITERARY AND ARTISTIC FIGURES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, number 1449 of 1500 copies signed by Matisse, and a masterpiece of 20th-century book design and illustration. Curiously, Matisse based his drawings on Homer's Odyssey, leading to speculation he never read the book he was supposed to illustrate. Reportedly, Joyce was so incensed that he stopped signing the edition, making the copies signed by both exceedingly rare. However, it's likely that the story is apocryphal, as the contract Joyce signed was to sign 250 copies, all that his poor eyesight would allow him to manage. The Artist and the Book 197. Slocum & Cahoon 22. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 07, 2021
JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des amis du livre, 1929
Est: €800 - €1,200
JOYCE, James (1882-1941) Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des amis du livre, 1929 In-4 (235 x 190 mm). Première édition française, traduite par Auguste Morel et Stuart Gilbert et revue par Valery Larbaud et… "
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2021
Carola Giedion-Welcker 1893-1979
Est: €800 - €2,000
Carola Giedion-Welcker 1893-1979 James Joyce in Zürich, 1938, Vintage print Am Unterrand montiert in: James Joyce, Jugend-Bildnis, 3. Auflage, Basel u. a., Rhein-Verlag, um 1930, 373 S., 1 Bl., Olwd., Gebrauchsspuren; Fotografie rechts oben Eckknick Rarissimum in der fotografischen Bildergalerie zu James Joyce (1882-1941), eine von mehreren Varianten aus der Kamera der Kunsthistorikerin Giedion-Welcker, Schauplatz am Zusammenfluß von Limmat und Sihl am Zürcher Platzspitz, seit 2004 als ein Lieblingsort von Joyce mit Metallbuchstaben in der Mauer bezeichnet (Initiative der Zürcher Joyce-Stiftung) Nachweisbar ist eine weitere Vintage-Fotografie des vorliegenden Motivs im Hulton Archive, heute Getty-Sammlung, wo Neuabzüge in verschiedenen Formaten angeboten werden (Fotograf R gettyimages: Giedon Weliker [sic!]) Reprod. in: A. Fischer, James Joyce in Zurich, A Guide, London u. a., 2021, Umschlagabbildung 11,6:8,7 cm
Schneider-Henn
May. 12, 2021
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 8vo. Half-title. Original brown cloth gilt, top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 29 of 800 copies SIGNED BY JOYCE. Anna Livia Plurabelle, Chapter I ofFinnegans wake, was published in translation in November 1927 prior to the present separate publication. The chapter, named after its heroine Anna Livia Plurabelle, includes some of theWake's most lyrical passages. Slocum and Cahoon A32. A VERY FINE COPY. Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
Hindman
May. 12, 2021
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. In: Two Worlds Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1-Vol.III, No. 3. New York City: Two Worlds Publishing Company, July 1926 - September 1927.
Est: $600 - $800
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. In: Two Worlds Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1-Vol.III, No. 3. New York City: Two Worlds Publishing Company, July 1926 - September 1927. 11 volumes, 8vo. Original printed wrappers (some chipping or tears). Pirated first appearance of Joyce's Ulysses in America, published by Samuel Roth. Complete as issued in 11 volumes; a 12th installment was planned but not issued separately, although it did appear when the work was issued in a two-volume bound edition. Joyce sought and obtained an injunction against Roth, and sued for damages. Slocum & Cahoon C-68 ("This unauthorized serialization of Ulysses resulted in considerable public indignation and provoked the 'International Protest' signed by 167 artists and writers and printed in transition" in April 1927.) Property from the Collection of Andy Nettell
Hindman
Dec. 11, 2020
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, 1930.
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, 1930. 4to. Title printed in green and black, initials and headlines printed in green. Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine, leaves untrimmed and unopened in the original glassine protective wrapper, original three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper (lacking original slipcase.) Folder slightly rubbed, bookplate on Inside front cover of folder (John Kobler), corners slightly bumped. otherwise very fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 24 of 100 copies on iridescent handmade Japon, signed by the author (plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies.) This luxury version of an excerpt from Finnegans Wake is printed on handmade paper that that has a pearlescent sheen. 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.' For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Dec. 09, 2020
James Joyce (1882-1941) A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. 1930
Est: £6,000 - £9,000
JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1930. Author's presentation copy, inscribed just nine days before Joyce's death. The book itself, Joyce's earliest sustained experimental work, and the work which introduced his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is the Tauchnitz edition published in Leipzig in 1930 to secure copyright. See Slocum and Cahoon 13 note. Octavo (161 x 114mm). Half-title 'Collection of British and American Authors. Vol. 4937' (faint marginal stain to p.293). Contemporary half roan over papercovered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: author's presentation copy (inscribed in green ink on half-title 'Zurich 4.1.1491 [sic]' to:) – Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005).
Christie's
Dec. 09, 2020
James Joyce (1882-1941) DUBLINERS. 1932
Est: £8,000 - £12,000
JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). Dubliners. Hamburg: Albatross, 1932 Author's presentation copy to Gustav Zumsteg. The present lot is inscribed on 4 January 1941; just six days later, Joyce was struck down with acute abdominal pains, but after an operation to remove a perforated duodenal ulcer, never suffucently recovered, and passed away on 13 January. The book itself, Joyce's earliest masterpiece and arguably the greatest collection of short stories in English, is the Albatross edition published in Hamburg in 1932. See Slocum and Cahoon 10 note. Octavo (176x 106mm). Second impression. Half-title 'The Albatross Modern Continetal Library Volume I' (faint marginal stain on p.9). Contemporary half roan over paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: author's presentation copy (inscribed in green ink on halftitle 'Zurich 4.1.1941' to:) – Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005).
Christie's
Dec. 09, 2020
James Joyce (1882-1941) ULYSSES. 1932
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). Ulysses. Hamburg: Odyssey Press, 1932. Author's presentation copy to Gustav Zumsteg, son of Hulda Zumsteg, the notable proprietors of the famous Kronenhalle restaurant in Zürich, just a few days before Joyce's death. Joyce's travels over continental Europe often took him to Zürich, which he first visited in 1904. He wrote portions of Ulysses while in the city during the First World War, and later 'Work in Progress', or Finnegans Wake, as it came to be known. With the invasion of France in 1940, Joyce managed to secure exile in Zürich, arriving there on 17 December 1940. He was a frequent visitor to the Kronenhalle; in an interview with the New York Times in 1987, Gustav Zumsteg claimed that, 'Joyce lived here for eight years ... He came here every day. And he left this place to die' (https://www.nytimes. com/1987/01/04/travel/zurich-s-haven-of-genius-and-joviality.html). The present lot is inscribed 'New Year 1941'; just a few days later, Joyce was struck down with acute abdominal pains, but after an operation to remove a perforated duodenal ulcer, never suffucently recovered, and passed away on 13 January. The impact of Joyce's Ulysses was revolutionary in its own time, and the book continues to stand as the single most significant English language novel of the last century. The complexity of it is revealed in the statement on verso of the present lot's title: 'The present edition may be regarded as the deifnitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request, by Stuart Gilbert'. It predates the first edition to be printed in England by 4 years. Slocum and Cahoon 20 ('generally considered to be the most accurate and authoritative text'). 2 volumes, octavo (175 x 111mm). Standard Odyssey edition. Half-titles and final blanks in both vols. Contemporary half roan over paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: author's presentation copy (inscribed in green ink on half-title of vol. I, 'With many thanks and best wishes ... Zurich New Year 1941' to:) – Gustav Zumsteg (1915- 2005). (2)
Christie's
Dec. 02, 2020
JOYCE JAMES: (1882-1941)
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
JOYCE JAMES: (1882-1941) Irish Novelist. Regarded as one of the more influential writers of the 20th century, he is best known for his work Ulysses (1922). A fine A.L.S., `James Joyce, ´two pages, oblong small 8vo card, Paris, n.d., [December 1925 - early 1926], on his personal printed stationery card, bearing to the upper right corner his Parisian address ''2, Square Robiac, 192 Rue de Grenelle VII'', to Mr. Suter, in French. Joyce annotates beneath his printed address a telephone `Tel - Segur 95-20'', and states 'Dear Suter, if Madame Suter is in Paris, maybe she could come here for tea time on Wednesday at 4 or 4h30. My wife wishes to talk to her - not about the servants. If not, would you give me a telephone call?´ Joyce further refers to his health problems saying `How are you? Hope you are well. I have suffered a seventh surgery. It was rather bad this time.´ Joyce had multiple eye-operations during his life. He refers here to the two operations he had in December 1925. Creasing to the left border and upper right corner, not affecting the text and signature, otherwise G Auguste Suter (1887-1965) Swiss Sculptor. Considered one of the greatest Swiss sculptors of all time. Suter and Joyce shared a close and friendly relationship. Suter´s clay sculpture of James Joyce did not survive WWII. Suter´s wife, a professional singer, gave singing lessons to Joyce´s daughter Lucia.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Nov. 06, 2019
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936. FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN ENGLAND, LIMITED ISSUE.
Est: $600 - $800
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936. 4to (252 x 190 mm). Publisher's green linen buckram, gilt Homeric bow design by Eric Gill to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine and edge sunned, corners bumped, lacking dust jacket, as often). FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN ENGLAND, LIMITED ISSUE, number 992 of 900 copies on japon vellum of a total edition of 1000. (For the first serialized edition, published in The Little Review, see lot 272). Slocum & Cahoon A23.
Hindman
Nov. 06, 2019
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Autograph note signed ("J. J."), to an unnamed recipient. N.p., n.d. [ca 1907 or later?].
Est: $800 - $1,200
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Autograph note signed ("J. J."), to an unnamed recipient. N.p., n.d. [ca 1907 or later?]. 1 page, visible area 2 x 2 1/2 in (50 x 65 mm), matted, framed, and glazed with a photographic portrait of Joyce (unexamined out of frame). "Best wishes from the four of us. My respects will follow, J. J." Presumably referring to the Joyce family - himself, Nora Barnacle, and their children Lucia and Giorgio.
Hindman
Oct. 30, 2019
JOYCE JAMES : (1882-1941)
Est: €11,000 - €17,000
JOYCE JAMES : (1882-1941) Irish Novelist and Poet. Widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, and best known for his work Ulysses (1922). Very rare A.L.S., James Joyce, one page, small 8vo, Paris, 18th May 1926, to Miss Bollach. Joyce writes to Lily Bollach who worked with Joyce on some of his works, the present letter most probably referring to his manuscript of Work in Progress, which would be later re-named Finnegan Wake. Joyce in a permanent linguistic search states in part `..It is all my fault for copying out of an earlier version. I am sorry to have put you to unnecessary trouble.´ and further about corrections to add, saying `Please read «noblesse…» and later «during alleged recent act of our chief magistrates as required by statues». For Mockmacmahonson in the other place read «Mockmacmahovitch» and after the words.. The verse begin, correctly as you say «Day shirker»´ The 8vo opened letter being a Pneumatique letter, folded, hand-addressed by Joyce to the verso, also postmarked and post-stamped. Overall age wear. G £10000-15000 Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Joyce, his final work. Considered one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, only two years before Joyce´s death.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Oct. 02, 2019
James Joyce (British), 'Too Close To Home And Too Near The Bone'
Est: £300 - £500
James Joyce (British) 'Too Close To Home And Too Near The Bone' 2018 Screenprint in colours on Somerset paper Signed and numbered form an edition of 36 in pencil 70 x 50cm ARR
Chiswick Auctions
Oct. 01, 2019
James Joyce (British), 'Free Time', 2008
Est: £200 - £400
James Joyce (British), 'Free Time', 2008, screen print on archival paper, signed and numbered from an edition of 25 in pencil; sheet: 84 x 59.5cm ARR
Tate Ward Auctions
Jun. 25, 2019
Joyce, James (1882-1941). Anna Livia Plurabelle. Cambridge: The Gramophone Company, Hayes, for the Orthological Institute, Cambridge, [
Est: £300 - £500
Joyce, James (1882-1941). Anna Livia Plurabelle. Cambridge: The Gramophone Company, Hayes, for the Orthological Institute, Cambridge, [1929]. Twelve-inch double-sided shellac 78rpm record, printed paper labels on each side, white paper sleeve (slight scratches on each side, two small tears in sleeve). FIRST PRESSING OF JOYCE''S ONLY RECORDING FROM FINNEGANS WAKE, recorded by C.K. Ogden (1889-1957), the inventor of Basic English. ''The best way to come to [Finnegans Wake] is through the "Anna Livia" recording and the "Tales Told of Shem and Shaun".'' (Connolly: The Modern Movement, 87) ''How beautiful the "Anna Livia" recording is, and how amusing Joyce''s rendering of an Irish washerwoman''s brogue!'' (Beach: Shakespeare and Company, 1956) The disc sold for two guineas and was subsequently issued by His Master''s Voice (Slocum and Cahoon, p. 17
Gorringes
Jan. 26, 2019
Joyce 1st U.K. Ed. Ulysses
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Joyce, James (1882 - 1941). Ulysses. London: for the Egoist Press by John Rodker, 1922. 4to. 9 x 7 inches. First UK edition, printed in Paris; no. 386 of 2,000 limited copies printed on handmade paper. Uncut; missing front original blue wrappers, back wrapper present, detached, with loss; backstrip worn, chipped with some loss; half title page separated; numerous tears and small chips; publisher's errata, four unbound leaves, laid in. Preserved in a modern blue clam shell box. Using the same plates as the first edition, the Egoist Press edition is effectively a second printing done in association with John Rodker. Due the book's censuring in 1921, over 500 copies of this edition were allegedly seized and destroyed by officials on both sides of the Atlantic.
Arader Galleries
Dec. 04, 2018
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Th
Est: $80,000 - $100,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. The frst edition in original wrappers, copy no. 112 of 150 copies, of one of the most formative novels of English-language modernism. This issue, printed on larger, heavier paper, is the hardest to fnd in such attractive condition. The complexities of its formal structure, its linguistic inventiveness and its imaginative cohesion of historical sources have made Ulysses the most diligently studied work of modern literature in English. Although the tumultuous publication nearly bankrupted Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare & Co, her clever marketing won the day, with reviews of the novel’s salaciousness prompting an avalanche of orders. All three subscription tiers were sold out by August. Cyril Connolly, while criticizing Joyce’s “preference for language rather than people,” nevertheless could not reject the novel’s immense intellectual weight: “somehow it does achieve greatness like a ruined temple soaring from a jungle—and should be judged perhaps as a poem, a festival of the imagination.” This is copy no. 112 of 150 printed on verge d’Arches. The Modern Movement 42; Slocum & Cahoon A17. Quarto (264 x 204mm). Original “Greek fag” blue printed wrappers (minor wear to edges; some very neat expert restoration to the spine and extremities); in custom box with plexi window. Provenance: The Sunwise Turn, Inc (avant-garde bookshop co-founded by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke; bookplate on colophon).
Christie's
Nov. 20, 2018
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Dedalus, portrait de l'artiste jeune par lui-même
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Dedalus, portrait de l'artiste jeune par lui-même. Traduit de l'anglais par Ludmila Savitzy. Paris : Editions de la Sirène, 1924. Première édition française, un des 25 exemplaires sur pur fl dans une reliure d'inspiration reptilienne de Leroux. In-4 (228 x 162 mm). Tirage de tête à 35 exemplaires sur pur fl, celui-ci numéroté J.J. 21. Reliure signée Georges Leroux, datée 1988 en veau velours gris clair à résille gris foncé, lettres de box vert mosaïquées au dos, doublures de nubuck émeraude, tranches dorées sur témoin, couverture conservée, chemise et étui.
Christie's
May. 29, 2018
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des amis du livre,...
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysse. Paris : La Maison des amis du livre,...
Christie's
May. 29, 2018
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Haveth childers everywhere. Fragment from 'Work in...
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Haveth childers everywhere. Fragment from 'Work in...
Christie's
May. 29, 2018
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Portrait photographique, épreuve argentique signée en...
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Portrait photographique, épreuve argentique signée en...
Christie's
Apr. 26, 2018
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Ulysse
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Ulysse Paris, la Maison des amis des livres, 1929. Fort vol. petit in-4, demi-maroquin bleu nuit à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture et dos (Ad. Lavaux. Rel). Édition originale de la première traduction française du chef-d'oeuvre de James Joyce, établie par Auguste Morel et Stuart Gilbert, et revue par Valery Larbaud et Joyce lui-même. Un des 170 exemplaires d'auteur hors commerce sur papier alfa vergé (n° 28 ; 3e papier). Quelques pliures ; couverture un peu défraîchie, dos doublé avec petits manques ; dos de la reliure légèrement passé Estimation 1 000 - 1 500 €
Artcurial
Apr. 26, 2018
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Réunion de 3 ouvrages
Est: €500 - €600
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Réunion de 3 ouvrages - Dedalus : portrait de l'artiste jeune par lui-même. Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1924. In-8, demi-maroquin bleu nuit, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, partiellement non coupé, couverture et dos (Ad. Lavaux). Traduction de Ludmila Savitzky. - Gens de Dublin. Paris, Plon, 1926. In-12, demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture et dos (Reliure Vercey Dijon). Édition originale de la traduction par Yva Fernandez, Hélène du Pasquier et Jacques-Paul Reynaud, préfacée par Valery Larbaud. Exemplaire sur papier d'alfa. - Finnegans Wake : fragments adaptés par André du Bouchet […] suivis de Anna Livia Plurabelle. Paris, Gallimard, 1962. In-12 broché, très partiellement coupé. Édition originale de cette adaptation en langue française. Introduction de Michel Butor. Un des 67 exemplaires sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre (n° 54 ; seul grand papier). Couvertures légèrement piquées, passées ou défraîchies Estimation 500 - 600 €
Artcurial
Apr. 26, 2018
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Lettre autographe signée
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
James JOYCE 1882-1941 Lettre autographe signée Paris, 29 août 1921. 1 demi-page in-4 (26,9 x 20,9), papier vergé bleuté à l'adresse gravée « 71, rue du Cardinal Lemoine. Ve ». Importante lettre de James Joyce relative aux premières traductions françaises de ses œuvres : « M. Dugard trouve le roman trop volumineux pour les Écrits Nouveaux. Au lieu il publiera trois nouvelles traduites par Mme du Pasquier. Je vous rends ci-avec le manuscrit. Mme Bloch m'écrit qu'elle connaît le russe comme le français et serait disposée à entreprendre les traductions dont vous me parliez. Elle vous prie de lui écrire au sujet ». Joyce était arrivé à Paris un an auparavant, recueilli avec sa famille par Ludmila Savitzky, belle-sœur de Jean-Richard Bloch. Les Écrits nouveaux, dirigés par Maurice Martin du Gard, publièrent successivement « Eveline », « L'Arabie » et « Un petit nuage », trois nouvelles extraites de Dubliners et traduites par Hélène du Pasquier et Yva Fernandez. Quant au roman Dedalus : portrait de l'artiste jeune par lui-même traduit par Ludmila Savitzky, dont il est sans doute question au début de la lettre, il ne parut qu'en 1924. Provenance : Collection Mme G. Laport (timbres humides) Quelques légères brunissures Estimation 2 000 - 3 000 €
Artcurial
Dec. 06, 2017
Joyce, James. 1882-1941. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New Yo
Est: -
Joyce, James. 1882-1941. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916.
Bonhams
Sep. 27, 2017
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: The Egoist Press. 1921. 8vo. Half title. (Minor spotting). Green cloth (slightly rubbed and faded). Prov: Catherine M. Masham. Sweden August 1923 (inscribed) and a few marginal annotations in pencil throughout.
Est: £70 - £100
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: The Egoist Press. 1921. 8vo. Half title. (Minor spotting). Green cloth (slightly rubbed and faded). Prov: Catherine M. Masham. Sweden August 1923 (inscribed) and a few marginal annotations in pencil throughout.
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 27, 2017
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Dubliners. London: The Egoist Press, 1922. 8vo. (Light browning). Publisher's black cloth (re-backed, rubbed, faded). Provenance: Geoffrey Grigson (signature)
Est: £150 - £250
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Dubliners. London: The Egoist Press, 1922. 8vo. (Light browning). Publisher's black cloth (re-backed, rubbed, faded). Provenance: Geoffrey Grigson (signature)
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 27, 2017
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. 4to. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's blue cloth with front panel of dust-jacket pasted onto upper board and lower wrapper (without back-strip panel, bound in at the rear). Eighth Paris Printing. Provenance: W.W. Burch July 26. 1927. Bought in Paris at Shakespeare Co. 12 Rue de L'Odeon.
Est: £100 - £200
JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. 4to. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's blue cloth with front panel of dust-jacket pasted onto upper board and lower wrapper (without back-strip panel, bound in at the rear). Eighth Paris Printing. Provenance: W.W. Burch July 26. 1927. Bought in Paris at Shakespeare Co. 12 Rue de L'Odeon.
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 07, 2017
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934. Finely b
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934. Finely bound in maroon morocco, with wraparound pictorial morocco onlays, by the Stonehouse Bindery, with cloth box with matching morocco title label, light soiling to page edges, generally fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, finely bound in modernist binding of pictorial morocco by the Stonehouse Bindery.
Bonhams
May. 06, 2017
James Joyce (1882-1941) CHAMBER MUSIC, first edition of Joyce's first book
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
James Joyce (1882-1941) CHAMBER MUSIC, first edition of Joyce's first book Provenance: Cathach Books, Dublin; Whence purchased by the present owner Literature: John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A Bibliography of James Joyce (1882-1941), Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1971, A3, pp. 5-9 Other Notes: Elkin Mathews, London, May 1907. First edition, third variant binding. Slocum and Cahoon record that 509 copies of the first edition were printed. Of these, fewer than 100 copies appeared in the first variant binding (with thick laid endpapers). The priority of the second and third variants is undetermined. Joyce’s first book, consisting of thirty-six poems, was rejected by both Grant Richards and Constable, but was eventually published – at the urging of Arthur Symons – by Elkin Mathews, who had previously published works by Yeats and Synge. 16mo; original green cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine; thin, near-transparent endpapers with traces of former ownership signature, since removed; pages evenly yellowed as usual. Cloth is clean; light edge wear; spine slightly sunned. A very good copy of Joyce’s first book . BOOKS
Whyte's
Dec. 03, 2016
200. Vintage James Joyce Poster
Est: -
James Joyce commemorative poster (1882-1941).Â "silence, exile, and cunning". This poster has been embellished with the addition of a caricature that resembles Joyce and Pooh. Framed with rippling underneath, but no water damage. Just needs pressed. Â Dimensions: Â 19" x 30"
Haw River Junktion, LLC
Sep. 22, 2016
[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. MATISSE, Henri, illustrator (1869-1954). – JOYCE,
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. MATISSE, Henri, illustrator (1869-1954). – JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4°. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by MATISSE. Original brown cloth, gilt-decorated on front cover and spine (lacking slipcase, some light soiling). LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH MATISSE AND JOYCE, number 365 from a total edition of 1500 copies. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey" (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp.35, 61). When asked why he decided to illustrate the Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe and Ithaca episodes of the classic poem rather than events from Joyce's novel, Matisse replied that it was because he had not read Joyce's Ulysses. A FINE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARGUABLY THE GREATEST WRITER AND THE GREATEST ARTIST OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The American Livre de Peintre 32; The Artist and the Book 197.
Christie's
Jul. 20, 2016
GILLET, Louis.(1876-1943). Stele Pour James Joyce. Marseille: Sagittaire, 1941. 4to. (Pages browned). Original cream wrappers titled in blue (spine torn with some loss, has come away from text block, spine and covers chipped) PRESENTATION COPY: "A Monsieur et Madame Simon Soussy affectieux souvenir Louis Gillet. Nice 12 Fev.42".
Est: £70 - £100
GILLET, Louis.(1876-1943). Stele Pour James Joyce. Marseille: Sagittaire, 1941. 4to. (Pages browned). Original cream wrappers titled in blue (spine torn with some loss, has come away from text block, spine and covers chipped) PRESENTATION COPY: "A Monsieur et Madame Simon Soussy affectieux souvenir Louis Gillet. Nice 12 Fev.42".
Chiswick Auctions
Apr. 23, 2016
Joyce, James: Collected Poems; Viking, 1937
Est: $250 - $350
Joyce, James: Collected Poems; Viking, 1937 First trade edition in dust jacket.
Link Auction Galleries
Apr. 05, 2016
*JOYCE, James: E.Br.m.U. Paris 9.II.1927. An den jungen amerikanischen Musiker Arthur Laubenstein in Nizza
Est: -
*JOYCE, James, 1882-1941. E.Br.m.U. Paris 9.II.1927. 1 S. gr.-4°. Mit gedrucktem Briefkopf ("2, Square Robiac / 182, rue de Grenelle"). Mit e. adressiertem Umschlag (Einriss repariert). An den jungen amerikanischen Musiker Arthur Laubenstein in Nizza, den ehemaligen Tutor seines Sohnes Giorgio an der Schola Cantorum in Paris, dem er für Glückwünsche zu seinem 45. Geburtstag (am 2. Februar) dankt. "... Many thanks for your kind telegram on my birthday. It was very good of you to remember me ... Have you settled down altogether in Nice or is there any likelihood of your passing through Paris at any time: We might go south but my wife does not like Nice though I found it quite pleasant. We spent the summer at Ostende. Giorgio has taken up singing again. It is now fixed that he certainly has not a bass but a baritone or robust tenor. Lucia" (seine Tochter) "has danced in public here and in Brussels and is starting to teach. Tuohy was here for about two months (it seemed two years) to finish my face which will adorn the May salon. Thank goodness he left today. We still go to the Trianon where the female dog Cascade continues to proliferate. My eyesight seems to be getting better lentissimamente. Did you set any of those verses? I enclose copy of a protest issued on my birthday to the French, English and American press ..." Der - nicht mehr beiliegende - von 160 Unterzeichnern getragene Protest richtete sich gegen den amerikanischen Verleger Samuel Roth, der in seiner Zeitschrift "Two Worlds" eine nicht autorisierte kastrierte Fassung von "Ulysses" als Fortsetzungsroman druckte. - Der irische Maler Patrick Tuohy (1894-1930) hatte nicht nur Joyce, sondern in dessen Auftrag auch seinen Vater und andere Familienmitglieder portraitiert. - In diesem Jahr erschien bei Shakespeare and Co. Joyces kleine Gedichtsammlung "Pomes Penyeach" und auch die erste deutsche Übersetzung von "Ulysses". Offenbar unveröffentlicht.
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