[JOYCE, James] -- Samuel BECKETT -- WILLIAMS, William Carlos et al. Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris, 1929. FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST APOLOGIA FOR FINNEGANS WAKE" (Ellmann, 626).
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[JOYCE, James (1882-1941)] -- Samuel BECKETT (1906-89) -- WILLIAMS, William Carlos (1883-1963) & Others. Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929.
8vo. Original cream printed wrappers (a few tiny chips, some minor stains and toning).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST APOLOGIA FOR FINNEGANS WAKE" (Ellmann, 626), containing “in addition to brief quotations from Work in Progress as it had been appearing in transition, a passage concerning Swift and blindness…which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake” (Slocum & Cahoon B10). Also including Samuel Beckett's important essay "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce," (Federman & Fletcher 1), and a passage from Work in Progress not incorporated into the final text of Finnegans Wake. Also with works relating to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson, and Mary Manning.
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