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Paris: Shakespeare And Company, 1929. First edition. One of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Our Exagmination contains brief quotations from Work In Progress, including a passage concerning Swift and blindness which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The ‘Letters of Protest' are reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Also includes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print, his essay on Joyce entitled "Dante, Bruno, Vico, Joyce." The present copy belonged to Mogens Boisen, the Danish translator of Ulysses, and is inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach. It also includes two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances whereby he was given the book. Small chip from rear wrapper, front wrapper lightly creased, otherwise a fine copy, with two copies of the publication announcement, preserved in a folding board box. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Small chip from rear wrapper, front wrapper lightly creased, otherwise a fine copy, with two…
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