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12mo., green cloth, gilt stamped, (36)pp. First American edition, unauthorized, Boston: The Cornhill Company. Earliest review noted: New York Call (The Call Magazine), 22 June 1918. (First authorized American edition was published New York: B. W. Huebsch, 30 September 1918. (Cahoon A:5,6).

Chamber Music is James Joyce's first published work, a collection of lyrical poems. The poems, written when Joyce was a young man in his early twenties, evoke the author's youthful infatuation with the lyrical tradition and his dissatisfaction with the impermanence and insincerity of the genre.