COLLECTED POEMS with SIGNED Visiting Card
New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Item #018988
Price: $6,500.00