21 “With All His Kinks English Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues” 25JOYCE, 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, 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, who idolized Joyce, 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” (Ellmann, 617n). Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful, fine copy, in a slightly worn slipcase. “Seashell Ebb Music Wayriver She Flows”: Anna Livia Plurabelle, Signed By Joyce, The Hersholt Copy 26JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York, 1928. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $9000 First separate publication of the centerpiece and most beautiful segment of Finnegans Wake, one of only 800 copies signed by Joyce, from the library of Danish-American actor and noted bibliophile Jean Hersholt. Responding to critics who accused him of writing off the cuff, Joyce claimed to have spent 1200 hours composing this integral part of his Work in Progress, later published as Finnegans Wake. He incorporated nearly 350 river names into the text and wrought perhaps the most lyrical of his published works. “He was prepared, he said, ‘to stake everything’ on this section of his book…” (Ellman, 598). Without scarce original glassine. Slocum & Cahoon 32. DanishAmerican actor and bibliophile Jean Hersholt’s copy, with his signed bookplate and shelf label. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown. A beautiful copy in fine condition with exceptional provenance.
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