JOYCE, James

Pomes Penyeach

Paris, Faber & Faber, 1933 (first UK edition)/ 1927.

Octavo, 24 pages (including initial and terminal blanks).

Plain saddle-sewn card covers with the attached unclipped pale green dustwrapper (lightly sunned and marked); two tiny puckered spots to the leading margin of an early leaf; an excellent copy.

This short collection of 13 poems was sold for 1/- (12 pennies) or 12 francs, hence 'Pomes Penyeach' (the thirteenth poem being the 'tilly', the Irish term for the thirteenth item in a 'baker's dozen', and also the title of the first poem).

Slocum and Cahoon 28.

Item #130577

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