Two Tales of Shem and Shaun; Fragments from Work in Progress by Joyce, James - 1932

Faber and Faber, 1932. Hardcover. Good. 1932. First Edition. 45 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front pastedown. Small bookshop label to rear pastedown. Cover has mild shelf wear with some bumping and tearing of paper to corners and rubbing to spine ends. Section of paper missing from lower spine. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

First edition. In very good condition, clean and unmarked in a poor dust jacket, heavily chipped, with complete spine loss, panels separated, 2s 6d prices intact on flap.

Blue paper covered boards, dark blue titles, top edge of spine dented, base chipped, spine partly split, top edge darkened, front board slightly faded and a bit grubby. Age toning on ffep

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Slender hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 45 pp. First trade edition. Mild soiling to boards. A handsome very good copy in about very good price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper suffers from edge chipping, particularly at the spine crown.

Faber & Faber, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Very Bright Very Good Plus Jacket.First Edition (1932). Fresh Copy With a Tiny Bit of Chipping..

Faber & Faber, 1932. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Boards, dj, VG/G+. 45pp, spine of the dustjacket a little rubbed & with a slight amount of loss at the head ( loss of the letter T from Two ) & tail, small snag to the top of the spine of the book, slightly worn along the edges, otherwise a nice copy. Contains 2 short works - 'The Mookes and the Gripes' and 'The Ondt and the Grasshopper', which had originally been published in France in 1929 by the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies. The 'work in progress' was Finnegan's Wake.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1932-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. London: Faber & Faber, 1932. Green boards with blue lettering, in Very Good dust jacket. CLean pages. A small closed tear in front panel of jacket, unclipped. A nice copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932 . First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5". None. The first trade edition of these two short tales from James Joyce, works that would eventually appear in Joyce's 1939 novel, 'Finnegans Wake'. The first trade edition of this work, first impression. This was also the first UK edition of this work, following a limited run of numbered privately printed copies produced in Paris in 1929. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Containing two short stories from the Irish modernist, 'The Ondt and the Gracehoper' and 'The Mookse and the Gripes', unfinished works that would eventually become incorporated into 'Finnegans Wake', a work that was gradually written over the course of seventeen years, and is here referred to only as a 'work in progress'.Initial reaction to Finnegans Wake, following its final publication as a complete work in 1939 was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE, in lovely condition. Subtitled "Fragments from WORK IN PROGRESS," TWO TALES OF SHEM AND SHAUN would later be included in parts I and III of FINNEGAN'S WAKE as symbolic of the sons of HCE. They were first published in 1929 in Paris at the Black Sun Press in an edition of 600 copies, and were quite obscure until the present Faber and Faber edition. A beautiful copy of an important stepping stone on the way to Joyce's final book. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mint green boards. Original unclipped (2s. 6d.) orange dust jacket. 46 pages. Ownership stamp of B. Naumburg to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear, small closed tear near middle of spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight.