HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE. Fragment from Work in progress by JOYCE. JAMES - 1930

Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris. The Fountain Press, New York. 1930. FIRST EDITION. Folio in fours. (11.2 x 7.6 inches). ONE OF 100 COPIES printed on imperial handmade iridescent Japan paper, numbered with a stamp and then signed by Joyce under the limitation notice (in pencil, as the paper would not take ink), from a total edition of 685 copies. This copy is number 47 of this, the most luxurious issue, originally priced at $40 when published: The edition was completed by 500 copies printed on handmade linen, priced at $20; and another 10 copies printed on imperial handmade iridescent Japan paper and 75 on handmade linen, these latter two issues were designated writer's copies and numbered in roman numerals. Untrimmed and partly unopened in original white paper covers printed in black and green to the spine and front panel, and in the original glassine wrapper. Enclosed in the original folding card wrapper covered with gilt paper and in the original green paper-covered slipcase with gilt edges and facings and now housed in a quarter green morocco cloth solander box with marbled paper on boards. Spine with raised bands. Gilt lettering and ruling. The book is fine throughout but the protective board and slipcase have some rubbing to the edges and corners. ----- Copies were generally issued in paper covers, with a glassine wrapper. Some copies of the special issues were additionally enclosed, as is this copy, in a three-panel card wrapper covered with gilt paper, and housed in a publishers green paper covered slipcase with gilt edges. The entire construct is relatively delicate and especially liable to chip. Calhoon, (no.41.) notes that there is an account of the publication of this book in Jack Kahane's Memoirs of a Booklegger, published in London in 1939.