Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress by [JOYCE, James] BECKETT, Samuel, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, and William Carlos Williams; G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon, letters of pro - [1929]

New York: New Directions, 1962. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 194 pp. Stated second edition of this collection of essays by Beckett, Williams and others regarding Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A new edition with introduction by Sylvia Beach. Also this is the first clothbound edition of this title. Faint offset to the endpapers else a handsome very good copy in blue cloth covers. The price-intact dustwrapper is also in very good condition.

London:: Faber and Faber,, [1929].. First English edition, from the Paris sheets.. original cloth in dust jacket.. Edges of text block slightly tanned; very slight rubbing to extremities; otherwise a fresh unworn copy in a dust jacket sunned at the spine and with a few extremely tiny chips.. 8vo,.

Paris: Shakespeare & Co. | Sylvia Beach, 1929. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. [6], 194, [4] pp. First edition. A note on the leaf opposite p. 194 notes that 96 copies were printed on verge d'Arches, numbered 1-96. It's uncertain if this is an out of series copy from this limitation or if that statement refers to another edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. Rubber stamped, "Made In / Great Britain" below the date on the title page. A fragile book, the front wrapper is detaching but holding for the moment; a bit of chipping to the bottom of the spine and the inner corner of the front wrapper--not affecting text; wear to the bottom edge of the rear wrapper; narrow tidelines to some areas of the wrapper edges, not intruding into the textblock; textblock is generally and evenly toned; contemporary bookseller's ticket for The Personal Book Shop, Boston on the front free endpaper. This collection of critical essays constituted Joyce's attempt to combat unfavorable reviews of early… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach, 1928. First edition. Paperback. Good. Printed wrappers. Small paperbound octavo. 195 pp. With "Made In Great Britain" rubberstamped on the title page. Includes extracts from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Contributions by Samuel Beckett, his first book appearance as well as Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams, Stuart Gilbert and others. A fragile book printed on this paper, this copy suffers from notable chipping along the right hand-side of the front cover, paper loss at top inch or so of spine and smaller chips to first blank endpaper and rear cover. Good overall condition of an uncommon Joyce and Beckett title. Book needs to be handled with care.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, 1929. First edition. [3]-194, [2] p. 191 x 140 mm. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy (the Danish translator of Ulysses) inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach, and with two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge, light creasing on front wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box, with the announcement. "Dante...Bruno. Vico...Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print.