The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part V

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Lot 74
  • 74

Joyce, James

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joyce, James
  • Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane and (Paris:) the Fountain Press, 1930
  • paper
4to (280 x 196mm.), FIRST EDITION, number 22 of 100 copies on imperial hand-made iridescent Japan signed by the author (of a total edition of 685 copies), printed in green and black, original white paper covers printed in green and black, original glassine protective wrapper, enclosed in original three-panel cardboard case covered in gilt paper, original green gilt-edged slipcase, a touch of wear to cardboard case, a touch of rubbing to edges of slipcase, OTHERWISE VERY FINE

Literature

Slocum & Cahoon A41

Catalogue Note

A fine copy of the most luxurious issue of this fragment of what eventually became Joyce's defining modernist experiment Finnegans Wake.