Pomes Penyeach
by JOYCE, James
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Paris: Faber & Faber, 1933. Paperback. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Paris, Faber & Faber, 1933 (first UK edition)/ 1927. Octavo, 24 pages (including initial and terminal blanks). Plain saddle-sewn card covers with the attached unclipped pale green dustwrapper (lightly sunned and marked); two tiny puckered spots to the leading margin of an early leaf; an excellent copy. This short collection of 13 poems was sold for 1/- (12 pennies) or 12 francs, hence 'Pomes Penyeach' (the thirteenth poem being the 'tilly', the Irish term for the thirteenth item in a 'baker's dozen', and also the title of the first poem).
Slocum and Cahoon 28.
Synopsis
Pomes Penyeach is a collection of thirteen short poems. It was written over a twenty-year period from 1904 to 1924 by the novelist James Joyce and originally published on 7 July 1927 by Shakespeare and Co. for the price of one shilling (twelve pennies) or twelve francs. The title is a play on "poems" and “pommes” (the French word for apples) which are here offered at “a penny each” in either currency.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130577
- Title
- Pomes Penyeach
- Author
- JOYCE, James
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1933
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Dustwrapper
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