JAMES JOYCE Two Worlds 1925 V1N2 VNTG Louis ZUKOFSKY Toulouse-Lautrec Modernism

  

December 1925 Volume 1, Number 2. Measures approx 8.5"T x 6"W. I pack securely, well protected and with care. I have a very large collection of books spanning many topics.

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Pages are nice and supple and flippable. Aside from the exterior cosmetics, this is a sound copy, comfortable for reading. This is nearly 100 years old, and in rather nice condition.

Preserved in an acid-free archival bag. About : The poem by Louis Zukofsky appears to be either early or maybe unpublished or at least uncollected.

It is one I've not been able to find a solid reference to in my own delvings. This issue carries a redrafted fragment, in a series of fragments, from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

Being written over the span of 17 years, Finnegans Wake was not published complete until 1939. This was the 1st appearance of the book in the United States. 450 copies went to subscribers. This copy is NOT numbered, and I think it's possible this is part of the 50 copies held maybe as publisher/contributor copies.

The editor/publisher Samuel Roth was a known booklegger, opposed to censorship and in some cases would publish work without permission, including works considered obscene and sexually explicit. A re-drafted segment (Here Comes Everybody) of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. A poem by Objectivist Poet Luis Zukofsky. A poem by Thomas Hardy. The play, Tatyana Riepin, by Anton Tchekhov.

Segment of Songs from the Arabian Nights, translated by E. Notes on Toulouse-Lautrec and his autographs, by Arthur Symons.

Short novel, White Streams by David Zorn (pseudonym for Samuel Roth). Writings by both Francis Page and Waverley Lewis Root. I will happily answer any further questions.

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