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Lot 264
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$455
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Lot Description
[Literature] Joyce, James, and Samuel Beckett, and William Carlos Williams, et al. Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
Paris: Imprimerie Durand for Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company, 1929. First edition, signed by Williams on title-page. 8vo. (Marginal toning as usual, half-title and title-page brittle with chipping, contents leaf and following leaf loose). Modern calf; original rear wrapper bound in at end. Wallace B11.
Contains Williams' "A Point for American Criticism" (pp.171-191). Also includes Joyce's "first apologia for Finnegans Wake" (Ellmann, 626), 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.
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