11 LITERATURE “Humptydump Dublin Squeaks Through His Norse Humptydump Dublin Hath A Horrible Vorse And With All His KinksEnglish Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues” 07JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris and New York, 1930. Slim folio, original printed paper wraps, glassine, gilt chemise, ,custom chemise and clamshell box. $17,500 First edition, one of only 100 signed copies on “Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan” paper, out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy. This is one of several fragments from Work in Progress (published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake) that Joyce issued to raise money while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers, Jack Kahane, had originally asked Sylvia Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead, she introduced Kahane to Joyce, who then agreed to let him publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. The effort nearly ruined Kahane, and only by selling the American rights to the work were he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy. Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful, fine copy, in a slightly worn slipcase. Rare First Edition Of Joyce’s First Book, One Of As Few As 50 Copies Of The First Issue 08JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. London, 1907. Small slim octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $8000 First edition of Joyce’s first book, rare first issue, one of as few as 50 to 100 copies (from an entire edition of 509 copies). Joyce considered Chamber Music to be a memorial of his youth, calling it in a letter to his brother “a young man’s book. I felt like that. It is not a book of love-verses at all, I perceive. But some of them are pretty enough to be put to music. I hope someone will do so… they are not pretentious and have a certain grace. I will keep a copy myself and (so far as I can remember) at the top of each page I will put an address, or a street so that when I open the book I can revisit the places where I wrote the different songs” (Ellmann, 232). First state, with thick laid endpapers with horizontal chain lines and signature C well centered on the page. It has been suggested that there were as few as 50 to 100 copies issued in the first state; all contemporary presentation copies are in this state. Text with a few tiny spots, light offsetting to pastedowns; original cloth with very minor wear to spine ends and corners, minor soiling to rear panel. A near-fine copy of this rare first edition.
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