"A New Unnamed Work" [Finnegans Wake] in Two Worlds, (September, 1925 - June, 1926)

First American printing. Four quarterly issues in printed wrappers. Volume 1, Nos. 1-4 (September, 1925; December, 1925; March, 1926; June, 1926). Contains the first four (of five) installments of an unauthorized serial appearance of Finnegans Wake, reprinted from European publications. One of 500 copies printed. Small ownership signature of a noted American psychologist in ink on the first page of each issue. The back cover of issue no. 1 also has a small presentation in ink to the psychologist. Toning and light dust soiling to the printed wrappers, some creasing and short tears to the spines, very good, housed in two cloth slipcases covered with brown paper tape. The first four consecutive issues of Samuel Roth's *Two Worlds*, containing a scarce pirated American printing of *Finnegans Wake*, a 20th Century literary highspot. *Slocum and Cahoon* C65; *Burgess 99* and *Connolly 100* (one of only three titles on both lists).