James Joyce Bibliography

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James Augustine Joyce was born in Dublin on 2nd February 1882 and died following a perforated ulcer in 1941. There is already more than enough written about James Joyce so I do not intend to further exacerbate the problem nor indeed could the confines of this page begin to do justice to his life and work. Suffice is to say that as one of the most highly regarded authors he is similarly regarded by collectors. First editions, especially in jackets, are rare and highly sought after. If you are looking to buy or sell books then our rare book shops section may be of some assistance.

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Holy Office
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing	Private Print	[1904-5]

Chamber Music
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing 500 copies	Elkin Matthews	1907

Dubliners
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing 746 copies same sheets as US edition	Grant Richards	1914

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing 750 copies from US sheets	Egoist Press, London	[1917]

Exiles
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing	Grant Richards	1918

Ulysses
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 1,000 copies in blue wraps Copies 1-100 handmade paper signed by author Copies 101-250 printed on Verges d'Arches Copies 251-1000 printed on standard white paper	Shakespeare, Paris	Feb 1922
Second Printing 2,000 copies, blue wraps	Egoist Press	Oct 1922
Third Printing 500 copies but most destroyed	Egoist Press	1923
Fourth Printing	Shakespeare Paris	1924
First Revised Edition Limited Edition, 25 copies, signed by author Two Volume Ediiotn - grey card covers One volume thin paper edition	Odyssey Press	1932
First US Edition Copyright edition, 100 copies Trade edition, hardcover with DJ	Random House	1934 [Jan 1935]
Matisse Edition 250 copies signed by Joyce and Matisse 1,250 copies signed by Matisse alone Hardcover in a slip case	US Limited Editions Club	1935
First Authorised UK Edition 1-100 coies, bound in vellum, slipcase and signed by James Joyce 101-1000 copies, bound in buckram with DJ Hardcover in a slip case	Bodley Head	1936

Pomes Penyeach
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing errata slip to rear	Shakespeare, Paris	1927
First UK Printing 25 copies signed and numbered by Joyce	Obelisk - printed in France	1931
First UK Trade Printing Wrappers	Faber	1933

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 100 signed copies, Japenese vellum 500 trade copies in slip case	Black Sun Press, Paris	1929
First UK Printing as Two Tales of Shem and Shaun	Faber, London	1932

Anna Livia Plurabelle
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing Tissue DJ	Faber, London	1930

James Clarence Mangan
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing Orig, 1902 , Dublin 40 private copies	Ulysses Bookshop, London	1930

Ibsen's New Drama
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing Orig, 1900 , Dublin 40 private copies	Ulysses Bookshop, London	1930

Haveth Childers Everywhere
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 100 copies signed in slipcase 85 writers copies 500 trade copies	Fountain Press, NY	1930
First UK Printing Cloth	Faber, London	1931

The Mimie od Mick, Nick and the Maggies
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 29 copies signed by James and Lucinda Joyce in slipcase	Servire Press, The Hague	1934
First UK Printing 1,000 copies in slipcase	Servire/Faber, London	1934

Collected Poems
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 50 signed copies, vellum in slip case 750 trade copies in slipcase	Black Sun Press, USA	1936

Storiella as She is Syung
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First Printing 25 signed copies in slipcase 150 trade copies in slipcase	Corvinus	1937

Finnegans Wake
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing	Faber, London	1939
First Signed Edition 310 signed copies for the US 115 signed copies for the UK	Faber/Viking	1939

Stephen Hero
 

Printing	Publisher	Date
First UK Printing	Cape, London	1944