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Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Preface by C. K. Ogden. Pp. [vi]+xvi+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in red & black, black & white frontispiece abstract portrait of Joyce by Constantin Brancusi, with loose tissue guard; f'cap. 4to; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, lettered in red & black on the upper wrapper and spine, with publisher's device in black at centre of lower wrapper; uncut; with the original glassine wrapper (slightly soiled, edges browned and split, with a few small chips, now protected by a later mylar sleeve); lacking the original card slipcase but housed within a later custom made black cloth solander box with gilt lettered red leather title label on spine, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on reverse of box lid; Black Sun Press, Paris, 1929. First edition, being one of 50 hors de commerce copies [total edition 650], stamped HC below the colophon. Minkoff A21; Slocum & Cahoon A36. *With the publisher's With Compliments card loosely inserted. The three 'fragments' (The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump and The Ondt and the Gracehoper) eventually became part of Finnegans Wake. Item #162818
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