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Joyce, James. A New Unnamed Work" in Two Worlds, Volume 1, Number 1 (September 1925). Sign of the Mocki-Grisball, NY, 1925.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: One of 500 copies. First installment of Finnegans Wake. A Fair to Good copy only with diagonal creases to bottom right corner of front panel. Behind the crease, a 1" by 2" piece is missing from the first tow pages (not affecting text). 1/4" by 1/2" chip in top edge of rear panel. Spine creases with wear to top and bottom 1/2" of front spine fold.

Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Roth, Samuel (editor). Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. Volume I, Number 2, December 1925. Published at the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball, New York, 1925.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Softcover, pp. 109-252 pp. Contributing editors: Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford. Writers include James Joyce, Samuel Roth, Louis Zukofsky, Anton Tchekov, E. Powers Mathers, Arthur Symons, Thomas Hardy, Francis Page, Waverley Lewis Root and David Zorn. Moderate wear with two tiny chips on covers, no owner names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding.

Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

ROTH, Samuel (editor). Two Worlds. U.S.A / Two Worlds Publishing Co, 1925.

Price: US$30.55 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: This is Volume 1 - Number 2 from December 25. // This is a 'limited edition' of 500 copies and this is number 234. // It contains the second unauthorised 'extact' of James Joyce's "A New Unnamed Work" (Finnegan s Wake, as turned out to be), Louis Zukofsky 'The Sadness After', Tchekhov 'Tatyan Riepin', Hardy's 'A Leader Of Fashion' & other authors work. With contributing editors Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound & Ford Madox Ford. /// This is magazine/paperback in fair condition-the spine is scuffed/rubbed & the edges around the cover & spine are chipped & creased / The 'text' pages are a little 'browned' & the previous owner has signed the front cover. (143 pages).

Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Joyce, James, Roth Samuel, Editor.. A New Unnamed Work (First Installment)" in Two Worlds,Volume 1, Number 1 (September 1925).. NY, 1925.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 500 cc. (not numbered). The first installment of this serialized version of Finnegan's Wake. Fair only. Creases to spines. Creases to bottom right corder of cover with a trianglularpiece missing from the first two pages (now affecting aay text). 1/2" green mark to bottom page edge. Binding is still solid.

Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James.. New Unnamed Work. (Second Installment.). , 1925.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: In: Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. Vol. I, no. 2. pp. 111-114. 8vo, original wrappers. Cahoon C65. An unauthorized reprint from Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers, Paris, 1925. Backstrip a bit spotted.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

(JOYCE, James, Louis Zukofsky, Anton Tchekhov, E. Powys Mathers, Arthur Symonds and Thomas Hardy) Samuel Roth, edited by. Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations - Vol. I, No. 2, December 1925. Two Worlds), (New York, 1925.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 111-252pp. Printed wrappers. Bottom edge with a light green mark, covers lightly soiled with faint tidelines at edges, spine worn with a chip at crown, still very good. One of 500 copies, this one unnumbered. Contains a pirated episode of Joyce's "Work in Progress" (*S&C* C65); additional contributions by Louis Zukofsky, Anton Tchekhov, E. Powys Mathers, Arthur Symonds, Thomas Hardy and more.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Samuel Roth (ed.); James Joyce, Louis Zukofsky, Anton Tchekhov (Chekhov), Arthur Symons, Thomas Hardy, and others (contents by). Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations, Volume 1, Number 2, December 1925. At the sign of the Mocki-Grisball, New York, 1925.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Pp. [109]-252, 8vo, card wrapper. Contents include the second installment of James Joyce's Ulysses (pirated), Anton Chekhov's play, Tatyana Riepin, and poetry by Thomas Hardy and Louis Zukofsky. One of 500 copies. A well-preserved, near fine copy with a tiny bump to one corner, wrapper mildly age-toned.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Roth, Samuel (editor); James Joyce (contributor). Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations, Volume 1, Number 1, September 1925. The Mocki-Grisball, New York, 1925.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original printed wrappers, (8.5 x 6 inches), 254-396 pages. Limited one of 500 copies. Contains the third installment of James Joyce's "New Unnamed Work" (Finnegan's Wake) and "Creative Evolution" by D.H. Lawrence. Contributing editors included, Arthur Symons and Paul Morand. A nicely preserved copy showing some expected light toning and wear at spine Size: Octavo

Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

(JOYCE, James, Louis Zufoksky, Arthur Symons, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Roth). Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations - Volume One, Number Two, December 1925. Two Worlds, (New York), 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Volume One, Number Two. P.110-252. Printed wrappers. Modest foxing on page edges, sunned spine with creases, very good housed in a very good publisher's papercovered slipcase with chipping at the edges, and moderate rubbing at the top and bottom edges. One of 500 copies. Contains an episode of Joyce's Work in Progress, and contributions by Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Symons, Francis Page, David Zorn, and more.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Roth, Samuel, Editor. Two Worlds a Literary Quarterly. At the Sign of the mocki- Grisball, New York City, N. Y, 1925.

Price: US$146.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: tributing editors, arthur symonds, ezra pound, and ford madox hueffer. vol. 1 no. 1 september 1925, vol. 1 no. 2, december 1925. and vol. 1, no. 4. june 1926. the first five issues have installments from a new unamed work by james joyce. (finnegan's wake) and not authorized.sadly we only have three of the first five issues.3 copies. vol i no 1, vol1 n0 2, and vol 1 no. 4.

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Roth, Samuel (editor). TWO WORLDS QUARTERLY - VOLUME 1 ISSUES No. 1 THRU No. 4 BOUND ONE VOLUME. , 1925.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York 1925. Complete set of 1925 issues of this literary journal custom-bound without original issue covers in one hardcover. Large octavo, 566pp., index, 3/4 green cloth with marbled green boards and gilt spine lettering. Book is 8-1/2 inches tall. Includes 4 (of 5 eventually) installments of James Joyce's "New Unnamed Work" (Finnegan's Wake); plus work by Arthur Symons, Whittaker Chambers, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, D. H. Lawrence, Pierre Louys and many more. VG plus. Excellent condition.

Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James.. New Unnamed Work. (First Installment.). , 1925.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: In: Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. Vol. I, no. 1. pp. 45-54. 8vo, original wrappers, with front and back panel of publisher's printed slipcase (sides lacking). No. 288 of 500 copies. Cahoon C65. An unauthorized reprint from Criterion, July, 1925. Lower one inch of backstrip lacking, affecting printing ("Volume"); upper joint split along about four inches without loss of paper; slipcase as above.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Roth, Simon.. Two Worlds. A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. Volume One Number One September 1925.. Simon Roth, New York, 1925.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 500 copies, "this one of 450 copies set aside for subscribers." Contributing Editors Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Hueffer. Very Good in dull pale orange printed wrappers, as issued. Contributors include James Joyce (an unauthorized, expurgated section from Finnegans Wake [its first appearance in print]), Arthur Symons, Francis Page, David Zorn, Samuel Roth, and Louis Zukofsky. 108pp. Staining to upper edge of rear cover. This copy bears the bookplate of John Sowden, notable for having been the owner of the famous residence "Sowden House" [1926- ], designed by Lloyd Wright (FLW's son), later owned by a notorious hedonist (and perhaps murderer) George Hodel, a VD clinic doctor who catered to Hollywood royalty, implicated (by his own son, an LA Detective) in the murder of Elizabeth Short (aka: The Dahlia Case). Interesting association copy. Q14695

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Joyce (James). Edited by Samuel Roth. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 - 4. Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly devoted to the increase of the gaiety of nations. New York, September, 1925 - June, 1926, 1925.

Price: US$204.68 + shipping

Description: Each one of 500 copies (sic) Four parts, bound in one volume, wrappers discarded Contains four (of five) unauthorized printings of Joyce’s "Work in Progress" lifted from European publications. Other "contributors" include Beerbohm, Hardy, Frank Harris, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Symons, Wilde and Zukofsky. Binder’s paper-covered boards, unlettered

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

[JOYCE, James] ed. ROTH, Samuel. Two Worlds : Vol. One, Nos. I-IV. At the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball -6, New York, 1925.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: Small 4tos, lettered in red and black to front panels and spines. Original black slipcases. Inked initials to front panel of Nos. 1, 3 and 4, chip to spine of No. 1, otherwise near fine copies with only a little age-toning, well preserved in their slipcases. First US editions. Containing the first US publication (unauthorised) of extracts from Finnegans Wake. Four (of five) issues of Samuel Roth's Two Worlds to carry extracts from Joyce's work in progress. Despite protests from Joyce, made via his Paris publisher Sylvia Beach, Roth went on to add insult to injury by publishing extracts from Ulysses in the same magazine, again without authorisation. This led to the International Protest, signed by 167 artists and writers and published in transition in 1927, and an injuction against Roth was finally issued in 1928. Periods of incarceration followed for Roth, mostly for publishing pornography (literary or otherwise). A hugely antagonistic figure in the world of letters, he was nonetheless responsible for the easing of US obscenity laws when Roth v. United States was heard by the Supreme Court in 1957, which decided that the 'likely to deprave and corrupt' test for questionable material was too widely drawn, and that the law would henceforth take into account whether 'the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.'. All of which was neither here nor there for James Joyce, who received no royalties from this piracy. Near fine copies, very well preserved in their slipcases.

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Roth, Samuel [editor]; Joyce, James. TWO WORLDS: A LITERARY QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE INCREASE OF THE GAIETY OF NATIONS [EIGHT PARTS]. Two Worlds Publishing 1925-1927, New York, 1925.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 8 parts; VG-; softcovers; spines age-toned white, with black or gray lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; all issues in maroon slipcases; set contains Volume One, Numbers One through Four, and Volume Two, Numbers Five through Eight; some wear to spines. CX consignment. Shelved in Room G. The Two Worlds contains the first US edition of James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" titled in the magazine as "A New Unnamed Work." The text was pirated and published by Samuel Roth. [Wikipedia]. 1346826. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Finaly, Marguerite. [James Joyce]. Reliquiae.. Privately Printed, Paris, 1925.

Price: US$17500.00 + shipping

Description: James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo, bound in full crushed morocco by G. Crettà with gilt titles to the spine, silk-watered doublures and endleaves, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page, "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head of La Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas from 1919 to 1937, and enabled several major French-American industrial collaborations. He is referred to in Finnegans Wake, which Joyce was writing at the time of his inscription: "Play actors by us ever have crash to their gate. Mr.Messop and Mr Borry will produce of themselves, as they're twof genitalmen of Veruno, Sernior Nowno and Senior Brolano (finaly! finaly!), all for love of a fair penitent that, a she be broughton, rhoda's a rosy she. Their two big skins! How they strave to gat her! Such a boyplay!" In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare and desirable from Joyce's personal collection. One of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, Irish novelist James Joyce is best known for his masterworks Ulysses (1922), Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man (1916), and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece", and wrote that "[if] aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon [Finnegans Wake] would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.