JOYCE (JAMES) AND F.J.C. SKEFFINGTON Two Essays. 'A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question'...

JOYCE (JAMES) AND F.J.C. SKEFFINGTON Two Essays. 'A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question' by F.J.C. Skeffingon and 'The Day of the Rabblement' by James A. Joyce, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 85 COPIES], stapled as issued in publisher's pink printed integral wrappers, some slight creasing and a little minor soiling, preserved in black cloth solander box [Slocum & Cahoon B1], 8vo, Dublin, Gerrard Bros., [1901] Footnotes: JOYCE'S RARE SECOND APPEARANCE IN PRINT. Both articles in this pamphlet had previously been rejected for publication in the University College Dublin magazine, St Stephen's. Joyce's contribution was a criticism of the Irish Literary Theatre, and had been turned down because of a reference to D'Annunzio's Il Fuoce, which was listed in the Index librorum prohibitorum; the article by Skeffington, a pacifist, feminist and vegetarian who was killed in the Easter Uprising of 1916, had been refused because it advocated equal status for women at the University. Undeterred, the impecunious students put together the necessary £2-5-0 and had the pamphlet printed at the stationer's across the Green on 31 October 1901. Slocum and Cahoon suggest that 85 copies were printed, a figure repeated by Ellmann. It represents Joyce's first appearance in book form, and was preceded only by the poem Et Tu, Healy!, of which no copy is known to exist, and 'Ibsen's New Drama', which had appeared in Fortnightly Review the previous April. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing