Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022
114 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 643. Joyce (James) Pomes Penyeach, 16mo Paris (Shakespeare and Company) 1927. First Edn., Copyright page, hf. title with ‘By the Same Writer’ printed on verse, Lim. Edn., errata slip tipped-in orig. printed page green boards loose, spine worn. Scarce. (1) €180 - €250 644. Joyce (James) Chamber Music, L., Elkin Mathews 1918, Second Edn., orig. printed wrappers Dolly Lynd’s copy with her signature dated April 1918. Scarce. (1) €250 - €350 645. Joyce (James) Haveth Childers Everywhere, folio, Paris (H. Babou & Jack Kahane) 1930, Limited Edn., No. 1010 (685) copies, uncut, foxing, ptd. wrappers, glassine cover (worn with loss), otherwise good copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A 41]. (1) €300 - €400 [Joyce, James]. A framed photographic print, circa 4” x 6”, showing Nora and James Joyce seated on a hillside (probably continental) with their friend Patrick J. Hoey. With a Pharmacist’s Diary for 1911 belonging to Patrick Hoey, written in a small neat hand, mostly in ink, recording his daily doings, January-December, also addresses, recipes, notes on art, thoughts and quotations on literature, etc., circa 100 pp in closely written manuscript. Binding worn, but holding. Hoey, a travelled man, was a friend of the Joyce family from Dublin days, and it is said that he was one of Joyce’s sources for his Dublin descriptions in Ulysses. Ellmann records that Joyce met him unexpectedly in Ostend in 1926, not having seen him for 25 years. ‘Hoey and Joyce are the same name’, Joyce told Sylvia Beech (both being versions of the Irish Seoighe). (1) €2000 - €3000 643 644 646. Diary by a Dublin Friend of Joyce
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