Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination Of Work In Progress. By Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams. With Letters Of Protest By G. V. L. Slingsby And Vladimir Dixon

(JOYCE, James)

Published by Shakespeare And Company, Paris, 1929

About this Item

8vo, original printed wrappers. Small chip from rear wrapper, front wrapper lightly creased, otherwise a fine copy, with two copies of the publication announcement, preserved in a folding board box. Small chip from rear wrapper, front wrapper lightly creased, otherwise a fine copy, with two copies of the publication announcement, preserved in a folding board box First edition. One of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Our Exagmination contains brief quotations from Work In Progress, including a passage concerning Swift and blindness which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The â Letters of Protest' are reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Also includes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print, his essay on Joyce entitled "Dante, Bruno, Vico, Joyce." The present copy belonged to Mogens Boisen, the Danish translator of Ulysses, and is inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach. It also includes two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances whereby he was given the book.

Seller Inventory # 22015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination Of Work In Progress. By Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams. With Letters Of Protest By G. V. L. Slingsby And Vladimir Dixon
• Publisher: Shakespeare And Company, Paris
• Publication Date: 1929
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • 1017
  • 21587