Accession number
PML 198204
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
Paris : Plon-Nourrit et Cie, imprimeurs-éditeurs, 1926.
Credit line
Purchased for the Sean and Mary Kelly Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019.
Notes
First translation of Dubliners into French.
Jacques-Paul Reynaud translated The Sisters; Hélène du Pasquier translated An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, and After the Race; the remaining ten stories were translated by Yva Fernandez.
Jacques-Paul Reynaud translated The Sisters; Hélène du Pasquier translated An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, and After the Race; the remaining ten stories were translated by Yva Fernandez.
Description
[8], xxxvi, 321, [3] pages ; 19 x 12 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front fly-leaf: To Pierre de Massot / James Joyce / 17.1.28 / Paris.
Provenance
Pierre de Massot (presentation inscription from the author) ; Alexander Neubauer, his bookplate mounted inside chemise; The James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer (Glenn Horowitz, 2011), no. 18; Sotheby’s (London) 9 Dec. 2014, lot 121; Sotheby’s (London) 24 Nov. 2015, lot 70.
Binding
Publisher's white printed wrappers, decorated in black and green; handsewn. Housed in sienna cloth chemise and matching slipcase with brown leather spine label, lettered in gold.
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