Joyce, James | Two first, limited editions

Joyce, James

A group of two first, limited editions

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. 4to (211 x 166 mm). Half-title, title-page in red and black, frontispiece by Brancusi, preface by C.K. Ogden; browning to title-page from where paper had been laid down, one or two stray spots. Original wrappers printed in red and black, original glassine; mild browning to wrappers, glassine worn and lacking the spine panel. With the original slipcase; broken and defective. — Haveth Childers Everywhere: Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: The Fountain Press (printed by Ducros et Colas), 1930. Folio (283 x 190 mm, uncut). No. 181 of 500 copies on handmade pure linen Vidalon Royal paper (of a total edition of 685), half-title, title-page printed in green and black, running heads printed in green; remnants of adhesive to half-title, minor browning at inner margin, stray pink stain to first page of text, a bit of separation between signatures in a few instances.  Publisher's wrappers printed in green and black with original glassine jacket; open and closed tears to spine, loss at head of spine, lacking the spine panel of glassine jacket. In the original green folding slipcase; chipped and worn.

First, limited editions, of Joyce's works. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun being no. 360 of 500 (paper with the watermark "Holland" but lacking the stamp "H.C." below the colophon), and Haveth Childers Everywhere being no. 181 of 500 copies on handmade pure linen Vidalon Royal (of a whole edition of 685).

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Slocum & Cahoon 36, 41