Description:
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).
