Each Bloomsday, Cathach Books displays several important editions of works by Joyce. Pride of place invariably goes to Ulysses. Among the current Cathach stock is:
• Presentation copy of Ulysses, in its original blue wrapper and presentation box. It is a seventh edition (Paris, 1925), €14,950.
• Finnegans Wake (London, 1939), one of 425 copies, signed by the author, €12,500.
• Whoroscope (Paris, 1930), Beckett's first individually published work, his competition-winning poem about time, one of 100 copies and signed by the author, €8,500.
• First edition of Bram Stoker's The Mystery of the Sea (London, 1902), signed by the author, €2,500.
• First edition of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (London, 1898) signed by the author as Prisoner C.3.3., €4,500.
• Wilde's The Happy Prince (London, 1888) one of a limited edition of 75 illustrated copies and signed by the author, €14,500.
• The definitive edition of The Poems of W.B. Yeats, in two volumes, (London, 1949), one of 350 copies, €5,950.
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