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First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Unauthorized American Edition which precedes the First Authorized American Edition. Believed to be a print run of 1000 copies. A very handsome copy of this rather scarce volume. Seldom found in such lovely condition. Hint of shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, deckled paper. 12mo. np. 36 numbered poems.

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.