In Memoriam James Joyce - A Vision of World Language.
by MacDIARMID, Hugh
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William MacLellan, Glasgow., 1955. First edition. This first impression was reserved for subscribers, which accounts for its scarcity and makes the second impression of the following year the first trade edition. Quarto. 150 pages. Decorated cloth gilt. Six long poems. Decorations by J.D. Fergusson. There are only about 150 names in the list of subscribers at the rear, which again vouches for the elusiveness of the book.Free endpapers partially tanned. Covers a bit marked and bumped at the corners. Very good in very good, slightly nicked, marked and rubbed dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MACDIARM011306
- Title
- In Memoriam James Joyce - A Vision of World Language.
- Author
- MacDIARMID, Hugh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William MacLellan, Glasgow.
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- scottish irish
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