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JOYCE (JAMES) Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 68 OF 100 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Paris, Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929 image 1
JOYCE (JAMES) Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 68 OF 100 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Paris, Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929 image 2
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 68 OF 100 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Paris, Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929

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JOYCE (JAMES)

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 68 OF 100 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 650 copies, title and text printed in red and black, etched frontispiece after Constantin Brancusi, diagram in the text, publisher's printed wrappers (spine slightly stained and chipped), glassine dust-jacket (spine defective), original slipcase covered with green suede paper edged with silver tape (corners worn, tears to joints) [Slocum and Cahoon A36], 4to, Paris, Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929

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ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY JOYCE. The fragments, with a preface by C.K. Ogden and Brancusi's celebrated abstract portrait of the author, comprise 'The Mookse And The Gripes', 'The Muddest Thick That Ever Was Heard Dump' and 'The Ondt And The Gracehoper', which form pp.152-159, 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of Finnegans Wake.

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