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Gas from a burner / James Joyce.

Accession number
PML 197778
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
[Trieste] : [the author], [1912]
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
Single-column 98-line broadside poem printed on white wove paper.
Place of publication and date from Slocum and Cahoon.
Typesigned at end: James Joyce. Flushing, September 1912.
"This pasquinade was written in the railway station waiting room at Flushing, Holland on the way to Trieste from Dublin after the malicious burning of the 1st edition of Dubliners (1000 copies less one in my possession) by the printer Messrs John Falconer. Upper Sackville Street Dublin in July 1912."--Note by Joyce quoted in Slocum & Cahoon, p. 12.
Description
1 sheet ; 62 x 23.4 cm
Provenance
The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Housed in modern blue cloth chemise and case, with black leather spine label, lettered in gold.
Classification
Department