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Joyce.Our Exagmination..Work in Progress

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first edition, original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, chipped at edges with loss of one letter from lower wrapper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929 ? Roth (Samuel, editor) Two Worlds, nos.2-4 only, each one of 500 copies, New York, 1925-26 ? Jolas (Eugene, editor) Transition, nos.21, 22 & 26 only, illustrations, no.21 signed by Desmond Harmsworth on upper cover, The Hague, Servire Press, and New York, 1932-37, the first browned, some of the rest a little water-stained, all original printed wrappers, rather browned, worn and stained, [Slocum & Cahoon B10, C65 & C70], 8vo

***The first has contributions by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Robert McAlmon, John Rodker and William Carlos Williams; the letters of protest at the end are supposed to have been written by Joyce himself. The second two all contain portions of Joyce's Work in Progress which became Finnegans Wake. .

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