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93 - JOYCE (James).

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€400 - 600

Sale fees

28.1%

JOYCE (James). Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. París: The Black Sun Press, 1929. — In-8, 210 x 165: (6 folios en blanco al principio y al final), 1 lámina, cubierta impresa. Encuadernación en rústica, cubierta forrada, estuche. Edición original, con prólogo del lingüista británico Charles Kay Odgen. En 1929, Harry y Caresse Crosby, editores de Black Sun Press, se pusieron en contacto con Joyce —a través de la librera Sylvia Beach— para publicar estas tres breves fábulas extraídas de *Finnegans Wake*, protagonizadas por los tres hijos de la novela: Shem, Shaun e Issy. Sus títulos son: «The Mookse and the Gripes», «The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump» y «The Ondt and the Gracehoper». Finnegans Wake no se publicaría en su versión íntegra hasta 1939. La edición está ilustrada con un retrato abstracto del autor, ajeno al texto, obra de Constantin BRANCUSI (1876-1957). Tirada limitada a 650 ejemplares. Este es uno de los 500 impresos en papel Holland Van Gelder (n.º 228). Ejemplar muy bien conservado.

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Auction details

Colección Anne y Arsène Bonafous-Murat - Libros antiguos y modernos
Wednesday, November 25
02:00 PM
3, rue Favart
75002 Paris, France

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