Giacomo Joyce. An Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellmann. With the Text of the Notebook and four full-scale Facsimiles of the Notebook Pages. New York: Viking Press, 1968. First Edition. Pp, [ix], 16, [xxvii]. Quarter cloth paper boards, title label to upper cover, in slipcase. A near fine copy.

‘Limited to one printing and will not be reprinted in this form.’

The first published edition of this short work written by James Joyce in 1914, immediately after the publication of Dubliners, his collection of short stories. Joyce produced the text when he was living in Trieste some time around 1914.

The manuscript comprises sixteen sheets of paper covered in what look like notes. It was rescued by his brother Stanislaus and remained unpublished during Joyce’s own lifetime.