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JOYCE (JAMES) Exiles. A Play in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Grant Richards, 1918 image 1
JOYCE (JAMES) Exiles. A Play in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Grant Richards, 1918 image 2
JOYCE (JAMES) Exiles. A Play in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Grant Richards, 1918 image 3
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Exiles. A Play in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Grant Richards, 1918

The Irish Sale - Vision & Voice
17 – 28 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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JOYCE (JAMES)

Exiles. A Play in Three Acts, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To Colette [?]/ James Joyce/ Paris/ xviii.8.[1]921" on front free endpaper, publisher's slate green cloth-backed boards, a few light water stains [Slocum & Cahoon 14], 8vo, Grant Richards, 1918

Footnotes

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE'S ONLY PLAY, INSCRIBED DURING A CRITICAL PERIOD IN THE COMPLETION OF ULYSSES IN 1921.

That August the author was revising the galley proofs from earlier sections of Ulysses whilst also working on finishing 'Penelope' and 'Ithaca'. Just two days before inscribing our copy of Exiles, Joyce had written to Frank Budgeon that "Penelope is the clou of the book. The first sentence contains 2500 words. There are eight sentences in the episode. It begins and ends with the female word yes. It turns like the huge earth ball slowly surely and evenly round and round spinning...". By the end of August Joyce, his health deteriorating, had turned to his friend and fellow author Robert McAlmon to type 'Penelope, McAlmon being the last in a long line of amateur typists that helped produce Ulysses.

The inscription is dated in Joyce's customary fashion ("921"), but the recipient Colette has not been identified. She may be the same Colette mentioned in the same breath as Joyce's son George amongst Sylvia Beach correspondence held at Buffalo University.

A second edition was published in 1921,

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