Exiles. A Play in Three Acts.

JOYCE, James.

$5,000.00

Item Number: 144590

New York: B. W. Heubsch, 1918.

First American edition, first printing of Joyce’s beguiling piece of drama, staged in English only once in Joyce’s lifetime and rarely revived. Octavo, original half cloth over grey boards, title stamped in blind to upper board, lettered in gilt to spine. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A very nice copy of this scarce work in the original jacket.

"Published simultaneously in the US and the UK, Joyce's only play, Exiles, was staged only once in Joyce's lifetime and is still quite neglected amongst students of theatrical literature and the stage. Ostensibly a drwaing room drama of manners heavily in the debt of Ibsen, Exiles somehow beguiles the reader with its style, so much so that by its end, one cannot fathom why one feels so troubled and disquieted" (Slocum & Cahoon A15)/