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Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1918. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition, issue with wove endpapers. 12mo. 40pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. A fine copy, with text partially unopened in about fine publisher's unprinted tissue dust jacket with very slight wear. *Slocum & Cahoon* A5- issued with either wove or laid paper endpapers, with no priority determined.

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.