£6,875
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Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. First edition, 4th printing, [Slocum and Cahoon A17 note, p.25], inscribed "To Alys Eyre Macklin, James Joyce, London, 5 April 1927" on half-title, with the original white wrappers printed in blue, somewhat soiled and laid down, bound in, 4 pages of Ulysses Additional Corrections at end, modern red morocco gilt, slipcase, paper lightly browned overall and brittle as usual, some marginal tears, chips
Note: Alys Eyre Macklin (ca. 1875-1929), English journalist, editor and publisher, arranged a treaty with Maurice Level to be his official literary agent for all English-language countries, and translated a selection of 26 of his tales as Crises: Tales of Mystery and Horror (1920).