Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress

1961 Faber and Faber reprint of the original 1929 Shakespeare and Company's collection of 12 essays and two letters of protest on James Joyce's 'work in progress', later to become Finnegan's Wake published in 1939. The first essay; Dante.Bruno. Vico. Joyce, was Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print. The other essays comprise: The idea of time in the work of James Joyce, by Marcel Brion. James Joyce’s Work in Progress and old norse poetry, by Frank Budgen. Prolegomena to Work in Progress, by Stuart Gilbert. The revolution of language and James Joyce, by Eugene Jolas. I don't know what to call it but it's mighty unlike prose, by Victor Llona. Mr. Joyce directs an irish word ballet, by Robert McAlmon. The Catholic element in Work in Progress, by Thomas McGreevy. Mr. Joyce’s treatment of plot, by Elliot Paul Joyce and his dynamic, by John Rodker Before Ulysses — and after, by Robert Sage. A point for American criticism, by William Carlos Williams. Writes a common reader, by G. V. L. Slingsby. A litter to Mr. James Joyce, by Vladimir Dixon. This 1961 edition also includes an introduction by Sylvia Beach. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, some fading and slight bumping to spine. Slight smudge to top right of contents page and some age toning, else tight and clear internally. A good to v.good copy. …