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Joyce, James. COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES JOYCE. The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 225 of 800 copies. Printed paper boards. 17 cm. Frontis. portrait of Joyce, with tissue guard, from a crayon portrait by Augustus John. Spine darkened, old staining to bottom edge boards, extending into text at the gutter, contemporary previous owner's signature on front endpaper, ribbon bookmark lacking. Included are Joyce's poems "Chamber Music," originally published by Viking, plus "Pomes Penyeach," previously unpublished in the United States, and "Ecce Puer," appearing in print for the first time.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Collected Poems of James Joyce. The Black Sun Press,, 1936.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: #635/800. Decorated paper-covered boards, frontis portrait by Augustus John, ribbon marker. About fine in lightly toned original glassine wrapper with shallow chip top spine, in custom cut mylar cover.
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Joyce, James.. COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES JOYCE.. The Black Sun Press: NY, 1936.
Price: US$569.25 + shipping
Description: Portrait, 6.75 x 4.5, decorated boards, 65 pp, uncut, vg in glassine wrapper (edge wear and 1 minor tear). FIRST ED, ONE OF 800 NUMBERED COPIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
JOYCE James. Collected Poems of James Joyce. , 1936.
Price: US$673.45 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece after a crayon portrait of the author by Augustus John. First edition. 16mo., original white boards lettered and decorated in blue, silk ribbon bookmark, with the remnants of the original glassine. New York, The Black Sun Press. Number 630 of 750 copies of the ordinary issue, from a total edition of 800 copies. Includes the first book-form appearance of 'Ecce Puer'. Small areas of old, faint tape stains to front and rear endpapers, otherwise internally clean, boards a trifle rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. Slocum and Cahoon A44.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
JOYCE, James.. Collected Poems.. The Black Sun Press, New York., 1936.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 66 pages. Frontispiece portrait from a drawing by Augustus John. One of 750 copies, out of a total edition of 800 copies set and printed by hand under the supervision of Caresse Crosby who designed the book. Decorated boards. Includes the first appearance in the U.S.A. of Pomes Penyeach and the first appearance in any edition of the poem ''Ecce Puer''. Blue silk bookmark.Fine in remains of original plain tissue wrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Joyce, James.. Collected Poems.. Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in white paper covered boards, printed in dark blue, in publisher's unprinted glassine dustwrapper, dark blue placekeeper. Limited Edition, #217/800 copies. 45pp. Trace of spotting to top edge of texblock. Beautiful copy. Q04685
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, JAMES. Collected Poems. Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$904.71 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. Blue lettered patterned white boards in glassine jacket with blue ribbon marker. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies of which this is #685. Edition set printed and designed under the direction of Caresse Crosby. Some loss to the glassine on the spine. Elegant little book.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Joyce, James. Collected Poems of James Joyce Joyce. The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The frontispiece is a Duotone (brown/white) Illustration (left profile study, executed in Paris, 1930) from a crayon portrait of the author by Augustus John, reproduced by Jacomet of Paris. Some of the pages are uncut. Interior is in very good condition and clean. . Contains 50 poems in all (the complete "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach", plus "Ecce Puer" (the last poem's first appearance in book form). One of 750 numbered trade copies (of a total edition of 800. This is a numbered copy), designed, hand set and printed under the direction of Caresse Crosby, New York City. Collected Edition. With protective tissue paper facing the frontispiece. White boards decorated in blue, bound with blue ribbon page marker. 6.5" x 4.5". 6, LXV pp. White boards decorated in blue. The glassine wrapper is chipped and missing a inch square portion on bottom and quarter inch portion on top center. Slocum & Cahoon A 44. Very top corner of front free endpaper has a small number written neatly in fountain pen.
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES JOYCE. The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Trade Issue, one of 750 numbered copies, this being copy no.626. Octavo (17cm); cream paper-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay; [ii],65,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author by Augustus John. Hint of sunning to crown, else a fresh, Fine copy. Glassine shows light wear to extremities, shallow losses to spine ends and lower corners, and a small triangular chip to lower rear panel; Very Good+. A typically exquisite production by The Black Sun Press, printing Joyce's Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Ecce Puer - the latter never before included in any edition. Slocum & Cahoon A44; Minkoff A-45.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, JAMES A.. Collected Poems. The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition Number 607 OF 800. F / FAIR.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Collected Poems. Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Limited edition #538/800 in original glassine wrapper. This consists of Chamber Music and the first appearance In the United States, Poems Penyeach and Ecce Puer. Never included in any edition. Slightly darkened spine, small chips head/heel and extremities. Slocum A44.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Collected Poems of James Joyce. The Black Sun Press, 1936.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 750 numbered copies of which this is a REVIEW copy. Fine in creme-colored patterned boards, In the original glassine wrapper chips and small tears. In archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James.. COLLECTED POEMS.. THE BLACK SUN PRESS., NY, 1936.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 750 numbered copies of which this is #523 Fine in creme-colored patterned boards, with the original unprinted tissue wrapper intact. (2"-inch neat tear to tissue wrapper at bottom edge of spine, and a 1 1/2"-inch tear along bottom righthand edge of front cover of wrapper) A lovely copy of an uncommon title.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James. COLLECTED POEMS with SIGNED Visiting Card. The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$8125.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo (4-1/2" x 6-5/8") in publisher's cream-white boards, spine lettered in blue, front cover stamped in blue with floral ornaments. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. Copy #576 of 800 numbered copies. A Presentation copy with Joyce's engraved visiting-card INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso in green ink: "Avec mes meilleures/voeux pour Noël et/la Nouvelle Année. Paris '37 James Joyce." On the recto, Joyce has scored through his name in green ink, and there is a green ink blot in the upper left corner. Partly unopened. Light soiling, mostly to the rear; spine darkened. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James. Collected Poems of James Joyce. Black Sun Press, N.Y., 1936.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, frontispiece portrait by Augustus John, original decorated parchment boards, t.e.g., glassine dust jacket, publisher's gold foil slipcase. Very slight wear to glassine dust jacket and slipcase, otherwise a very fine copy, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. Very slight wear to glassine dust jacket and slipcase, otherwise a very fine copy, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase First edition, deluxe issue, one of 50 copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A44. Collected Poems includes poems previously published in Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach, but its primary distinction is in being the first appearance of Joyce's finest and most moving poem, "Ecce Puer", which Joyce wrote on February 15, 1932, the day his grandson, Stephen James Joyce, was born. In "Ecce Puer", however, Joyce's joy at his grandson's birth is subdued by grief over the recent death of his father, John Joyce, who had died on December 29, 1931, and the poem ends: "A child is sleeping; / An old man gone. / O, father forsaken, / Forgive your son!" As Joyce wrote to T. S. Eliot, "He had an intense love for me and it adds anew to my grief and remorse that I did not go to Dublin to see him for so many years." Joyce had not seen his father in eleven years, and confided to Harriet Weaver that "It is not his death that crushed me so much as self-accusation." - Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 656-659.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.