BIB_ID
414028
Accession number
MA 9772
Display Date
Place not identified, 1937 March 16.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Description
1 item (3 pages), unbound ; 32.5 x 22.5 cm
Provenance
Alexander Neubauer; the Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Summary
Typed contract, with some cancellations and interlinear additions, for the first American edition of Collected Poems by James Joyce. Signed on all three pages by James Joyce; initialed by B. W. Hubsch (Joyce's American publisher of Dubliners who was in 1937 working at Viking Press) on pages 1 and 2 and signed by him on page 3; witnessed on page 3 by Rita Whiteson (an employee at Viking Press) and Paul Léon (Joyce's friend and in 1937 his unofficial secretary).
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