Books

London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of James Joyce's first trade book and one of 509 copies originally printed. Second issue with thick wove endsheets. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth, foxing to endsheets and preliminary matter, contents tanned. A beautiful copy of this collection of poems, with the title being derived from the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot. Slocum & Cahoon 3.

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.

Presence of publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles and floral designs on the front cover and spine; top edge gilt with others untrimmed as issued, and the presence of 1907 on the title page.