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Lot 137

Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$600 - 900
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$1,260
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[Literature] Joyce, James Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments From Work in Progress

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First and limited edition, #224/500 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper (from a total edition of 650). 4to. (vi), xv, (1), 55, (3) pp. Printed in red and black. Illustrated with a portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi, with original tissue guard. (Presumably) publisher's printed slip with matching limitation number laid in (not called for in Minkoff), 3 13/16 x 1 1/16 in. (97 x 27 mm). Publisher's stiff white wrappers, printed in red and black, spine slightly darkened; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in original gold paper-covered board slip case. Minkoff A-21

A handsome copy of a book often poorly preserved.

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