Ref. 28084-26A RARE book of poetry by James Joyce sold for £36,000 when it was auctioned in Swindon £16,000 more than was expected.
Pomes Pennyeach, one of only 25 copies printed in 1932, was one of a collection of lots at Dominic Winter Book Auctions, in Maxwell Street, which sold for a total of £175,000, largely to anonymous private collectors.
They had previously been in the collection of a Reading resident.
A 1917 first edition of Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, which had been expected to raise between £10,000 and £15,000, sold for £27,000.
And a 1936 first edition of Joyce's Ulysses sold for £16,500, having been expected to raise between £7,000 and £10,000.
Auction house spokeswoman Jenny Baxter said after the sale: "It has been a good day for collectors and a god day for us."
Other highlights included a first edition dust jacket no book was included of the Ian Fleming James Bond novel, Casino Royale, which sold for £11,500.
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