A New Unnamed Work (fragments of Work in Progress) in Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations

Complete set of the five issues of "Two Worlds" magazine in which five installments of James Joyce's "Work in Progress" appeared between September 1925 and September 1926. Overall, a Very Good set of a rare and ephemeral publication.

Vols. 1-4 in the original black card slipcases; Vol. 5 in an mylar wrapper. Volumes 1-4 are in very good or better condition; Volume 5 (in the larger format, not issued in a slipcase) has a clean and tight interior but a soiled cover, with a crease to the lower front corner which has been backed with archival repair tissue on the verso. Slipcases for Vols. 2-4 very good with some rubbing; slipcase for Vol. 1 is lacking head piece. Please see photographs.

This is the first American publication of fragments of Finnegans Wake, consisting of:
September 1925, pp. 45-54: (FW I.5, pp.104-125);
December 1925, pp. 111-114: (FW I.2 section 1, pp.30-34);
March 1926, pp. 347-360: (FW I.8, pp.196-216);
June 1926, pp. 545-560: (FW I.7, pp.169-195);
September 1926, pp. 35-40: (FW II.4, pp.383-99).