Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination of Work in Progress
1929ref. 2621Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. First edition. 194 pp. Original printed wrappers with cover design by Sylvia Beach. Top edge uncut and unopened. Some slight overall soiling to the wrappers slight chipping to the lower edge of the spine. Chemised in a custom slipcase. One of 96 numbered copies on Verge d'Arches the numbered copies are twice as thick as the ordinary edition due to the paper used. Various tributes and studies of Joyce's Work in Progress which was published ten years later as Finnegans Wake. As Beach wrote "these were writers who had been watching Work in Progress from the beginning each seeing it from his own angle but interested in Joyce's experiment and friendly towards it." Beckett's first appearance in book form with texts by Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. With letters of protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Federman & Fletcher 1. Wallace B11. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
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