With Slipcase and Prospectus
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun.
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929.
Price:
$3,750.00
First edition, no. 17 of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder (total edition 650). Portrait of the author by Brancusi. Preface by C.K. Ogden. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream-colored wrappers. Near fine copy in the glassine wrapper, which has a few bumps, in original gilt-paper box, somewhat rubbed, with hinges tender. Slocum 36; Minkoff A21.
Item #352380
With original Black Sun Press prospectus, noting to be sold at Shakespeare and Co., laid-in.
The Black Sun Press edition of excerpts from Joyce's Work in Progress (later Finnegan's Wake). The three selections — "The Mookse and the Gripes,’" "The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump," and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper" — were previously published in transition but were further edited and expanded by Joyce for publication here. The frontispiece is by Constantin Brancusi, who took the commission — his only book illustration — after Picasso declined.
Item #352380
With original Black Sun Press prospectus, noting to be sold at Shakespeare and Co., laid-in.
The Black Sun Press edition of excerpts from Joyce's Work in Progress (later Finnegan's Wake). The three selections — "The Mookse and the Gripes,’" "The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump," and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper" — were previously published in transition but were further edited and expanded by Joyce for publication here. The frontispiece is by Constantin Brancusi, who took the commission — his only book illustration — after Picasso declined.
