[JOYCE (JAMES)] Victoria and Albert Museum Brief Guide INSCRIBED JOINTLY BY NORA AND JAMES JOYCE...

[JOYCE (JAMES)] Victoria and Albert Museum Brief Guide INSCRIBED JOINTLY BY NORA AND JAMES JOYCE, 'for Eil | Best Wishes | Nora Joyce | James Joyce | Jan 1931' on the title-page, , photogravure frontispiece, plates and maps, publisher's orange printed wrappers, old crease where folded, 8vo, V. and A., 1931 Footnotes: A JOYCE FAMILY GIFT, inscribed by Joyce and his wife to his sister Eileen. It is very rare to find items jointly inscribed by both James and Nora Joyce. Eileen had followed her brothers to Trieste in 1910 and later married a Czech, Frantisek Schaurek, in 1915. Schaurek worked as a bank clerk and was embezzling money from his employer. He died by suicide in November 1926 while Eileen was away in Dublin. James Joyce heard the news before his sister but could not bear to tell her when she visited him in Paris on her return journey. Eileen reached Trieste to find her husband already buried, and demanded his exhumation before she could accept he was dead. Shortly afterwards, she and her children returned to live in Ireland. This pamphlet was presumably sent by James and Nora Joyce ahead of a planned visit to London by Eileen and at the same time when Joyce and his wife were themselves planning a visit to London for their belated wedding. James and Nora then lived close to the V&A in Campden Grove (dupped 'Campden Grave' by Joyce) later that same year from May to September 1931. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for tax, no tax 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