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Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. A lovely copy of this first edition. One of the 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Numbered to the colophon. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over soft covers. Glassine wrapper protects this. Glassine has a touch of light creasing. As a frontis is a portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. The book comes with the front and rear boards of the slipcase, bottom edge and the silk ribbon. This is in pieces, and lacks the rear edge and top edge. The boards themselves are clean and neat, and would be suitable for a binders restoration to make a renewed slipcase. Overall, a very attractive copy in excellent condition (slipcase aside). This is the limited first printing of the "Work in progress" that would eventually become "Finegan's Wake." XV, [I], 55 [iii]. Pages. 210 by 170mm (8¼ by 6¾ inches). . Un bel exemplaire de cette première édition. Un des 500 exemplaires sur Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Numéroté au colophon. Couverture souple avec jaquette propre et soignée.… Leer más

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce. Black Sun Press (Paris: 1929). Copy No. 494 of 500 numbered copies. A fine volume in a Very Good original slipcase.
Printed in letterpress in red and black on cream-white, Holland Van Gelder Zonen laid paper. Text hand-set in the Caslon typeface. Foolscap quarto, 21 x 16.5 cm., top edge trimmed. White paper covers with folding top and side flaps. Presented in the original gold foil-covered slipcase [alternate slipcases incorporating green and red suede paper were also used]. With a Preface by C.K. Ogden, and a portrait of the author by Constantin Brâncuși printed in photogravure with tissue overlay. A Fine, clean and tight volume, in a (later) protective wrapper, housed in a very good, original gold foil-covered slipcase. Minor discoloration to extreme head and tail of cover (as shown in photos). Slipcase base is slightly unhinged at fore-edge; top edge shows a 2cm cello tape repair (as shown in photos). Tales Told of Shem and Shaun was the second… Leer más

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in original glassine nicked with some minor loss. Brancusi, Constantin. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The three fragments are entitled; "The Mookse and the Gripes. The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump. The Ondt and the Gracehoper." Binding by Andrea Kohler. The three fragments comprise pp. 152-159, 282-304 and 414-419 respectively of "Finnegans Wake." The image by Brancusi is a graphic work. THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960," notes: "A portrait as abstract as the author's text." This was one of the last books printed at the Black Sun Press. Crosby committed suicide in December, 1929. Slocum and Cahoon A36. Kohler binding in fine red velvet and gold framed slipcase housed in fine black leather spine folding box lettered in red and black.

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. Preface by C. K. Ogden. Pp. [vi]+xvi+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in red & black, black & white frontispiece abstract portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi, with loose tissue guard; f'cap. 4to; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, lettered in red & black on the upper wrapper and spine, with publisher's device in black at centre of lower wrapper; uncut; with the original glassine wrapper (slightly soiled, edges browned and split, with a few small chips, now protected by a later mylar sleeve); lacking the original card slipcase but housed within a later custom made black cloth solander box with gilt lettered red leather title label on spine, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on reverse of box lid; Black Sun Press, Paris, 1929. First edition, being one of 50 hors de commerce copies [total edition 650], stamped HC below the colophon. Minkoff A21; Slocum & Cahoon A36. *With the publisher's With Compliments card loosely inserted. The three… Leer más

Paris: Black Sun, 1929. First. paperback. fine/fine. Three Fragments from a Work in Progress. With a "Portrait" by Brancusi. Sq. 8vo, printed wrappers with original glassine. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Contains work that was later to appear in Finnegans Wake. Number 66 of 500 copies. Fine, in the original gilt slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon, A-36.<br/> <br/>

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition, LIMITED. One of 500 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen of a total edition of only 650, this being copy 205. With a preface by C. K. Ogden. With an original etched abstract portrait frontispiece by Constantine Brancusi, it is the only artwork done for a book illustration by the famous sculptor, with tissue guard. Printed in red and black throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original cream paper wrappers printed in red and black, in the original gilt leafed red paperboard slipcase. xv, 55 [2] pp. A fine copy, internally prisitine, a upper hinge with small slit at the gutter, the slipcase a bit worn and lacking the back strip. SCARCE FIRST EDITION LIMITED OF THE SECOND SEPARATELY PRINTED PORTION OF FRAGMENTS OF “A WORK IN PROGRESS”, AND WHAT WOULD ULTIMATELY BECOME FINNEGANS WAKE. FINNEGANS WAKE is perhaps the most ambitiously conceived novel of all time and is the pinnacle of the Modernist movement in literature. Joyce began working on… Leer más

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author's grandson's, Stephen James Joyce's bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher's wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase. Slipcase slightly worn. Spine somewhat worn and stained. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author's grandson's, Stephen James Joyce's bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher's wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase. [10] XV [1] 55 [7] p., and one loose plate protected with tracing paper. Limited first edition of Joyce's Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, the author's grandson's copy. This book includes three fragments… Leer más

Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929, 1929. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. [8], XV, [1], 55, [3]. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places. Housed in the cardboard slipcase covered with green paper and edged in silver paper to which there is some slight marking and wear to the edges. Signed on the half title by James Joyce in black ink and illustrated with Constantin Brancusi's etching Symbole de Joyce, intended by the artist to capture Joyce's "sens du pousser" and described as "a portrait as abstract as the author's text". With a preface by C.K.Ogden who, in the same… Leer más