The Personal Libary of James Joyce: A Descriptive Bibliography
Buffalo: University Bookstore University of Buffalo, 1957.
Second Edition. Paperback.
Books, periodicals and pamphlets from Jame Joyce's personal that were donated to the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo in the fall of 1950. Joyce drastically reduced his personal library in the winter of 1938-1939 in preparation for a move from his Paris apartment and it is presumed that this remaining collection is from his "working library." This second edition includes a preface which quotes Joyce's friend Stuart Gilbert on some of the questions raised in the 1955 first edition of the bibliography. Stuart reveals that even before he weeded it out, Joyce's library was remarkably small and contained few modern books or books that were given to him. The odd magazines in the collection were purchased by Joyce on a visit to England in 1929 and were intended to be used to collect queer technical terms that might be used in Finnegan's Wake. The preface also contains two errata.
Item #9021345-7/8 x 8-7/8", printed wrappers, preface to the 2nd edition, introduction, 58pp.
Toning to edges of wrappers, tight, clean, free of owner's marks, very good.
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