OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS; [Beckett's first book apppearance].
Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1929. First edition. Collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce's FINNEGANS WAKE. Includes Beckett's first book appearance, "Dante. Bruno. Vico..Joyce"; William Carlos Williams' "A Point for American Criticism," as well as Stuart Gilbert, Robert McAlmon, Elliot Paul, et al, and one "Letter of Protest" by Vladimir Dixon -- who publisher Sylvia Beach suspected was Joyce himself. [Slocum & Cahoon B10]. 12mo cream paperwraps printed in black, front cover illustrated with roundel design; 185 plus pages. Good with covers and text block age toned, spine tanned, small splits traversing spine affecting few letters (still readable), and fore edge rear cover lightly chipped. Increasingly scarce.
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Price: $750.00