Tales Told of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce (18 results)

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Lange vor der Veröffentlichung von »Finnegans Wake« (1939) wurden bereits einige Teile daraus separat in Buchform veröffentlicht - darunter nicht nur das berühmte Kapitel »Anna Livia Plurabelle« (1928), sondern auch »Tales Told of Shem and Shaun« (1929). Der Keim der Entstehung dieser drei Geschichten liegt in einer Fehde zwischen den Schriftstellern James Joyce und Wyndham Lewis, die sich bei gemeinsamen Zechtouren durch Paris kennengelernt hatten. Joyce beantwortet eine heftige Attacke Lewis' auf den »Ulysses« (»ein Monument wie ein Rekorddurchfall«) und auf das entstehende »Finnegans Wake« (»Kinderspielchen à la Gertrude Stein«). Es gibt in »Finnegans Wake« bekanntlich keinen 'eigentlich gemeinten' Sinn, sondern ein Geflecht aus vielen fragmentarischen Sinnebenen, die sich gegenseitig ergänzen, durchdringen und auch aufheben; eben dies ist die besondere Qualität des Buches. Ziel des Übersetzers Friedhelm Rathjen war es, so viele der im Original vorhandenen Bedeutungen wie irgend möglich wiederzugeben, und zwar in eben der Abfolge und Verschränkung, in der sie im Original erschienen: »'Finnegans Wake' ist ein kühnes Buch für kühne Leser, und das Amt des Übersetzers kann es nur sein, dafür zu sorgen, daß beide zusammenfinden.« 100 pp. Deutsch, Englisch.

Reihe: Bibliothek Suhrkamp Großband 1468. Mit einem Titelporträt. OPappband mit OUmschlag und Bauchbinde, 100 S. Mit dem Umschlagstreifen. Sehr gut. Irische Literatur,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 21cm x 16.5cm. (xv)55pp. Top edge rough trimmed; all others untrimmed. Heavy paper wraps with folding flaps (lacking original glassine dust-jacket) are heavily toned, showing foxing on front panel and a few small spots of soiling on rear panel. Spine is chipped at base with a 3cm loss to backstrip which does not affect vertical titling ("FRAGMENTS JOYCE") but does lose the final "9" in "1929". Internally very good; original owner's ex libris (John Leed Kerr / New York 1929) on second preliminary endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Brancusi's abstract "portrait" of Joyce, with original tissue guard intact but partially detached, opposite preface. Of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder Zonen Holland paper (from a total edition of 650), this is numbered 64 on colophon page.

Frontis by Brancusi, 8.25 x 6.5", printed wraps, 55pp, pp a little edge-toned but still a beautifully preserved, clean, fresh copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLAND VAN GELDER ZONEN (this is copy #74). Missing slipcase.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen of a total edition of 650, with an original etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constantine Brancusi. Bound in wraps in later glassine with foil covered slipcase with ribbon pull. Modest discoloration to the binding; the slipcase rubbed.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. Brancusi, Constantin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Original white wraps printed in red and black. New glassine. Housed in original slipcase with On laid gilt. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. This is #233. Frontis by Brancusi. 53 pp. A fine copy of a now scarce item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

First edition, first printing, number 224 of 500 copies on Holland paper, from a total edition of 650 copies; there were also 100 signed copies on japon and 50 hors commerce copies. This a particularly attractive example, retaining the publisher's striking metallic slipcase. Preceded by Anna Livia Plurabelle (1928), this is the second separately published portion of what was to become Finnegans Wake (1939). It contains "The Mookse and the Gripes", "The Muddest Thick that was ever heard dump", and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper". It also includes introductory comments on Joyce's use of language by C. K. Ogden, the inventor of Basic English and the co-author of The Meaning of Meaning (1923). Slocum & Cahoon A36. Small quarto. Original white paper wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in red and black, publisher's device to rear cover in black. With the publisher's metallic slipcase. Abstract frontispiece portrait of the author by Constantin Brancusi, with tissue guard. Text printed in black and red. Minor rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy in the original slipcase.

Hardcover. Brancusi, Constantin (illustrator). First edition. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The three fragments are entitled; "The Mookse and the Gripes. The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump. The Ondt and the Gracehoper." Binding by Andrea Kohler. The three fragments comprise pp. 152-159, 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of "Finnegans Wake." The image by Brancusi is a graphic work. THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960," notes: "A portrait as abstract as the author's text." This was one of the last books printed at the Black Sun Press. Crosby committed suicide in December, 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. Kohler binding in fine red velvet and gold framed slipcase housed in fine black leather spine folding box lettered in red and black. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in original glassine nicked with some minor loss.

Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Preface by C. K. Ogden. Pp. [vi]+xvi+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in red & black, black & white frontispiece abstract portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi, with loose tissue guard; f'cap. 4to; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, lettered in red & black on the upper wrapper and spine, with publisher's device in black at centre of lower wrapper; uncut; with the original glassine wrapper (slightly soiled, edges browned and split, with a few small chips, now protected by a later mylar sleeve); lacking the original card slipcase but housed within a later custom made black cloth solander box with gilt lettered red leather title label on spine, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on reverse of box lid; Black Sun Press, Paris, 1929. First edition, being one of 50 hors de commerce copies [total edition 650], stamped HC below the colophon. Minkoff A21; Slocum & Cahoon A36. *With the publisher's With Compliments card loosely inserted. The three 'fragments' (The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump and The Ondt and the Gracehoper) eventually became part of Finnegans Wake.

paperback. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo, printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First Edition. Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine, in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon, A-36.

First edition, LIMITED. One of 500 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen of a total edition of only 650, this being copy 205. With a preface by C. K. Ogden. With an original etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constantine Brancusi, it is the only artwork done for a book illustration by the famous sculptor, with tissue guard. Printed in red and black throughout. 8vo, publisher s original cream paper wrappers printed in red and black, in the original gilt leafed red paperboard slipcase. xv, 55 [2] pp. A fine copy, internally prisitine, a upper hinge with small slit at the gutter, the slipcase a bit worn and lacking the back strip. SCARCE FIRST EDITION LIMITED OF THE SECOND SEPARATELY PRINTED PORTION OF FRAGMENTS OF "A WORK IN PROGRESS", AND WHAT WOULD ULTIMATELY BECOME FINNEGANS WAKE. FINNEGANS WAKE is perhaps the most ambitiously conceived novel of all time and is the pinnacle of the Modernist movement in literature. Joyce began working on FINNEGANS WAKE shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals Transatlantic Review and transition, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939.

First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author's grandson's, Stephen James Joyce's bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin BrâncuÈ i. In publisher's wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase. [10] XV [1] 55 [7] p., and one loose plate protected with tracing paper. Limited first edition of Joyce's Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, the author's grandson's copy. This book includes three fragments from Work in Progress, later published as Finnegans Wake. Stephen James Joyce (1932-2020) was the grandson of James Joyce and the executor of Joyce's literary estate. . Slipcase slightly worn. Spine somewhat worn and stained. Otherwise in fine condition. In publisher's wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author's grandson's, Stephen James Joyce's bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin BrâncuÈ i.

4to. (212 x 168 mm). [44 leaves; pp. (viii), xv, (i), 55, (i)]. Half-title, title printed in red and black, contents leaf, leaf with monochrome etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constanin Brancusi signed in the plate, preface by C. K. Ogden, (pp. xv), The Mookse and the Gripes (pp. 1 - 16), The Muddest Thick that was Ever Heard Dump (with mathematical diagram on pg. 32), (pp. 17 - 43), The Ondt and the Gracehoper (pp. 45 - 55), justification leaf with achevé d'imprimer (June, 1929). Printed 21 lines per page in hand-set Caslon, headlines and initials printed in red throughout. Original publisher's cream wrappers with printing in red and black to upper cover and spine, monochrome 'black sun' vignette to rear wrapper, original glassine wrapper. Harry Marks' nominatif copy on Japon signed by Joyce. From the edition limited to 650 copies, with this one of 50 hors commerce on Japanese Vellum signed by Joyce in black ink to the half-title; this nominatif copy was printed for Harry F. Marks ('This copy is for / Harry F. Marks'). Printed in Paris by Harry and Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press and with an introduction by C. K. Ogden, 'Tales Told of Shem and Shaun' was offered for sale in New York at the 'Bookshop of Harry F. Marks, 31 West 47 Street New York'. This was the second separately published fragment of Joyce's fabled 'Work in Progress' (after 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' in 1928), although sections had been printed in periodicals as early as 1924, a work which would eventually coalesce - on May 4th, 1939 after 17 years of work - into Finnegans Wake. Picasso had been the first choice to provide a frontispiece but refused on the grounds that he did not produce portraits 'sur commande' and Joyce suggested Constantin Brancusi as an alternative. Brancusi's final 'portrait', the abstract 'Symbol of James Joyce' prompted Joyce's father to remark on seeing it: 'the boy seems to have changed a good deal'. 'A portrait as abstract as the author's text . '. (The Artist and the Book). [The Artist and the Book 32; Slocum & Cahoon A36; see Joyce by Richard Ellmann, pg. 614].