JOYCE, James -- [William Kirkpatrick MAGEE (1868-1961)] 'John EGLINTON'. Pebbles from a Brook . Kilkenny and Dublin: Standish O'Grady, 1901. Slip tipped onto title listing 'London Agent--J. Watkins' and 'Dublin Agent--Eason & Son'. (Very light marginal browning, one page lightly marked.) Original printed wrappers, lettered in red (extremities lightly rubbed, short split on lower joint, short tears on edges), modern morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance : James Joyce (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To James Joyce , from , John Eglinton , March 1933') -- Louis Gillet (1876-1943) -- Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York (catalogue James Joyce (1996), item 3). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO JOYCE BY AN EARLY LITERARY ASSOCIATE, THE DUBLIN WRITER JOHN EGLINTON. Joyce met Magee in 1903, when Magee was working at the National Library in Dublin and publishing his essays; despite being the subject of Joyce's mockery--'There once was a Celtic librarian Whose essays were voted Spencerian, His name was Magee But it seemes to me He's a flavour that's more Presbyterian' (quoted in Ellmann James Joyce , p.118)--Magee and Joyce shared a dislike of parochial literary nationalism, and 'Joyce had committed many of his sentences and ends of sentences to memory' ( loc . cit .), and, in turn, Magee felt that 'There is something sublime in Joyce's standing alone' (J. Joyce Selected Letters (London: 1976), p.19). As co-editor of Dana , Magee was offered an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , which he rejected, choosing, instead, to publish the poem 'Song' in issue 4. The two men stayed in irregular contact following Joyce's departure from Ireland, and a character called Eglinton appears twice in Ulysses (once in the National Library). On 21 March 1933, Joyce wrote to Magee that he was 'trying to have [ Pebbles from a Brook ] translated into Italian when the European war broke out' ( Letters , I, p.336), and asked Magee to send him a signed copy of the book, in exchange for the signed copy of Anna Livia Plurabelle that Joyce had given him. However, Joyce seems to have subsequently mislaid this copy, for Magee inscribed a second copy to him in 1936.
JOYCE, James -- [William Kirkpatrick MAGEE (1868-1961)] 'John EGLINTON'. Pebbles from a Brook . Kilkenny and Dublin: Standish O'Grady, 1901. Slip tipped onto title listing 'London Agent--J. Watkins' and 'Dublin Agent--Eason & Son'. (Very light marginal browning, one page lightly marked.) Original printed wrappers, lettered in red (extremities lightly rubbed, short split on lower joint, short tears on edges), modern morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance : James Joyce (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To James Joyce , from , John Eglinton , March 1933') -- Louis Gillet (1876-1943) -- Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York (catalogue James Joyce (1996), item 3). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO JOYCE BY AN EARLY LITERARY ASSOCIATE, THE DUBLIN WRITER JOHN EGLINTON. Joyce met Magee in 1903, when Magee was working at the National Library in Dublin and publishing his essays; despite being the subject of Joyce's mockery--'There once was a Celtic librarian Whose essays were voted Spencerian, His name was Magee But it seemes to me He's a flavour that's more Presbyterian' (quoted in Ellmann James Joyce , p.118)--Magee and Joyce shared a dislike of parochial literary nationalism, and 'Joyce had committed many of his sentences and ends of sentences to memory' ( loc . cit .), and, in turn, Magee felt that 'There is something sublime in Joyce's standing alone' (J. Joyce Selected Letters (London: 1976), p.19). As co-editor of Dana , Magee was offered an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , which he rejected, choosing, instead, to publish the poem 'Song' in issue 4. The two men stayed in irregular contact following Joyce's departure from Ireland, and a character called Eglinton appears twice in Ulysses (once in the National Library). On 21 March 1933, Joyce wrote to Magee that he was 'trying to have [ Pebbles from a Brook ] translated into Italian when the European war broke out' ( Letters , I, p.336), and asked Magee to send him a signed copy of the book, in exchange for the signed copy of Anna Livia Plurabelle that Joyce had given him. However, Joyce seems to have subsequently mislaid this copy, for Magee inscribed a second copy to him in 1936.
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