1901-1920
The Day of the Rabblement (1901 Dublin)
- pamphlet
Two Essays (1902 Gerrard Bros, Dublin)
- pink wrappers, stapled
Offered in 1999 for £5,800
Chamber Music (1907 Elkin Mathews 1/6)
- 509 copies (1918 Cornhill, Boston)
(1918 Huebsch)
Dubliners (1914 Grant Richards)
- 1250 sets printed (1916 Huebsch)
[22 publishers and printers read and refused this work before Grant Richards published it.
Apparently (in Joyce's words)
'some very kind person bought out the entire edition
and had it burnt in Dublin']
[Filmed in 1987 as "The Dead"]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916 Ben Huebsch)
(1917 Egoist Ltd)
(1924 Cape)
[H G Wells said of this book 'it's a book to buy, read and lock up']
Huebsch Edition offered for £1515 in 1999
Exiles : A Play in 3 Acts (1918 Grant Richards)
(1918 Huebsch)
(1951 Viking Press US)
(1952 Cape)
1921-1930
Ulysses (1922 Egoist Press - printed France 2000 copies
Pomes Penyeach (1927 Shakespeare, Paris)
(1931 Sylvia Beach US)
(1932 Obelisk Press)
(1933 Faber)
Anna Livia Plurabelle (1928 Crosby Gaige US)
- Ltd Ed 850 (1930 Faber)
Two Tales of Shem and Shaun (1929 Black Sun Press, Paris)
- Ltd Ed 650 (1932 Faber)
Haveth Childers Everywhere (1930 Babou & Kahane, Paris / Fountains Press NY)
- Ltd Ed 500 numbered
Haveth Childers Everywhere (1930 Fountain Press US)
- Ltd Ed 685 (1931 Faber)
Ibsen's New Drama (1930 Ulysses Bookshop, London)
1931-1940
Pomes Penyeach (1932 Harmsworth)
- printed France. 25 signed copies
The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies : A Fragment from Work in Progress
(1934 Servire Press, Hague / Gotham Book Mart, NY)
The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies : A Fragment from Work in Progress
(1934 Servire Press, Hague / Faber, London)
Ulysses (1936 Bodley head)
- 100 signed copies
Ulysses (1936 BH)
- 900 trade copies
Collected Poems (1936 Black Sun Press)
- Ltd Ed 800 (1937 Viking Press US)
Storiella as She is Syung (1937 Cornivus Press)
- 150 numbered
Offered in 1999 for £2500
Finnegans Wake (1939 Faber)
(1939 Viking NY)
After 1941
Stephen Hero (1944 Cape)
- 2000 copies (1944 New Directions)
The Portable James Joyce (1947 Viking Press)
The Essential James Joyce (1948 Cape)
- extracts
Epiphanies (1956 Lockwood Memorial Library, Buffalo)
- Ltd Ed 550
The Letters : Vol 1 (1957 Faber)
The Critical Writings (1959 Faber 25/-)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1964 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Brian Keogh
The Cat and the Devil (1964 Dodd Mead)
- Richard Erdoes
The Cat and the Devil (1965 Faber)
- Gerald Rose
The Letters : Vol 2 (1966 Faber)
The Letters : Vol 3 (1966 Faber)
Giacomo Joyce (1968 Viking, US)
(1968 Faber)
James Joyce's Dubliners : An Illustrated Edition by John Wyse Jackson & Bernard McGinley
(1995 Sinclair Stevenson £12.99)
Editions of Ulysses
Installments of this book were first published in an American magazine, the "Little Review"
from 1918-21. Four issues were confiscated and burned
FIRST PRINTING : Copies 1-100 printed on Dutch h/made paper. Signed
(Feb 1922 Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
FIRST PRINTING : Copies 101-250 printed on verges d'Arches. (Feb 1922 Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
FIRST PRINTING : Copies 250-1000 (Feb 1922 Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
SECOND PRINTING : 2000 numbered copies (1922 Oct. John Rodker for the Egoist Press, London)
THIRD PRINTING : 500 numbered copies.
[Most destroyed. Of the 500 numbered copies, 499 were seized by the Customs Authorities, Folkstone.
A single copy had been sold in Manchester !]
(1923 Jan John Rodker for the Egoist Press, London)
FOURTH PRINTING : white/blue wraps (1924 Jan. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
FIFTH PRINTING : white/blue wraps (1924 Sept. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
SIXTH PRINTING : white/blue wraps (1925 Aug. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
SEVENTH PRINTING : white/blue wraps (1925 Oct. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
EIGHTH PRINTING : blue/white wraps (1926 May. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
NINTH PRINTING : blue/white wraps (1927 May. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
TENTH PRINTING : blue/white wraps (1928 Nov. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
ELEVENTH PRINTING : blue/white wraps (1930 May. Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
Unauthorised Edition (1929 Samuel Roth)
(Shakespeare & Co)
First Revised Definitive Edition : 2 vols in stiff grey wraps (1932 The Odyssey Press, Hamburg)
Offered for £775 in 1999
First Revised Definitive Edition : Special Edition (1932 The Odyssey Press)
- 25 copies signed
First US Edition (1934
Jan1935 Random House)
- with d/w
Matisse Illustrated Edition (1935 Ltd Editions Club, US)
- 1500 signed by author and Henri Matisse
Offered for £2815 in 1998
First Authorised British edition : Copies 1-100 printed on mould-made paper, bound in calf vellum.
100 Signed. (1936 John Lane - The Bodley Head)
- designed by Eric Gill
First Authorised British edition : Copies 101-1000 printed on Japanese vellum, bound
in buckram. Signed. (1936 John Lane - The Bodley Head)
- with d/w
First Unlimited British Edition (with d/w)
(1937 John Lane : The Bodley Head)
First British Paperback Edition (1968 Penguin)
- 250.000
A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1984 Garland, London & NY)
- 3 vols
The Corrected Text (with d/w)
(1986 John Lane : The Bodley Head)
[Filmed in 1967]
READING
T S Eliot : Introducing James Joyce (1942 Faber)
Harry Levin : James Joyce - A Critical Introduction (1944 Faber)
Joseph Campbell & H M Robinson : A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1947 Faber)
John J Slocum & Herbert Cahoon : A Bibliography of James Joyce (1953 Yale Univ Press)
(1953 Hart Davis)
Stanislaus Joyce : My Brother's Keeper (1958 Faber)
- ed by Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann : James Joyce (1959 OUP)
(1959 OUP, NY)
Padraic Colum : Our Friend James Joyce (1959)
Anthony Burgess : Here Comes Everybody (1965 Faber)
John Gross : Joyce (1971 Fontana)
Arthur Power : Conversations with James Joyce (1974 Millington £2)
- Edited by Clive Hart
Stan Gebler Davies : James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist (1975 Davis-Poynter)
(Ed)
Willard Potts : Portraits of the Artist in Exile (1979 Wolfhound Press)
Richard Ellmann : James Joyce (1983 OUP)
Bonnie Kime Scott : Joyce and Feminism (1984 Indiana UP)
Sheldon Brivic : Joyce the Creator (1985 Wisconsin UP)
Brenda Maddox : Nora - A Biography of Nora Joyce (1988 HH)
Peter Costello : James Joyce - The Years of Growth 1882-1915 - A Biography
(1992 Kyle Cathie £17.99)
Vincent J Cheng : Joyce, Race and Empire (1995 CUP £37.50/£12.95)
Edna O'Brien : James Joyce (1999 Weidenfeld £12.99)