Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
by Beckett, Samuel (and Eleven Others)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929. A collection of twelve essays and two "Letters of Protest" regarding James Joyce's "Work in Progress" that was eventually published (ten years later) as "Finnegan's Wake." The lead essay by Samuel Beckett is his first publication. Originally issued in wraps by Shakespeare and Company; those sheets were evidently sold to Faber, who issued this, the first hardbound edition. Blue-green cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 194 pages; no dustwrapper. The paper is tanning - reflecting its poor quality. Rubbed at the margins. A bit fragile - the Title Page has partially loosened. A true artifact of Twentieth-Century modernism. In an archival plastic protector.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004680
- Title
- Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel (and Eleven Others)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Poor
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- Gilt
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