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JOYCE (JAMES) AND SAMUEL BECKETT
Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SAMUEL BECKETT "for Tristram with gratitude for his kindness - all good wishes from Sam, London Oct. 76" on , Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929

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[JOYCE (JAMES) and SAMUEL BECKETT]

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion [etc.], FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SAMUEL BECKETT "for Tristram with gratitude for his kindness - all good wishes from Sam, London Oct. 76" above title to Beckett's contribution, uncut in publisher's printed wrappers, soiled, small loss to upper spine not touching text [Federman & Fletcher 1; Slocum & Cahoon B10], 8vo, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929

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PRESENTATION COPY FROM BECKETT OF HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT, an essay entitled "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce" which he contributed to a collection of essays for Exagmination, "the first apologia for Finnegans Wake, entitled with mock-portentousness, at Joyce's suggestion" (Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 1982, p.613).

Provenance: Inscribed by Samuel Beckett to Tristram Powell. Powell directed the celebrated BBC television performance of Not I, for which (on 13 February 1975) Powell "had the camera set up in front of Billie Whitelaw's mouth... and Mouth appeared on the screen in powerful close-up... For once, a transfer [of a Beckett play] to another medium had worked brilliantly in its own terms" (James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett, 2014). It was intended to be shown in 1976, but was not eventually screened until 1977.

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