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Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere: Fragment from Work in Progress. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, Paris, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$383.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Title printed in black and green, initials and headlines printed in green. Green card slipcase. Folio, original printed wrappers, spine cracked and tanned; front panel torn tanned along left side (see photos); rare publisher's green board slipcase, edges chipped with some loss, with top thin panel detached from back panel. Internally with occasional foxing, quite marked on some pages (please see photos, which includes a badly foxed opening) First edition, number 430 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made pure linen Vidalon Royal, especially made for this edition.

Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom

Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere: Fragment from Work in Progress. Henry Babou & Jack Kahane: Paris / The Fountain Press: New York, 1930.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Description: 72pp.; many pages unopened. Some splitting of the spine and small piece missing from bottom else very good condition. A

Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies", initialed by publisher Henry Babou. 73, [1] pp. 4to. One of 75 Writer's Copies. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Printed wrappers. Lacking glassine and slipcase, spine heavily chipped, dampstaining First edition, number XV of 75 "Writer's Copies", initialed by publisher Henry Babou.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE James.. HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE.. Fountain Press,, Paris,, 1930.

Price: US$468.06 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. 195 cms by 188. pp 74. One of 500 copies this unnumbered. Printed in green and black, published Fountain Press Paris 1930. About fine in very slightly tanned original glassine jacket with slight chip at top of spine.[Slocum 41] The work comprises a fragment of what would eventually become Joyce's final complete work, Finnegans Wake. Very good indeed.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Babou & Kahane, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Thin 4to, cream colored wrappers printed in green & black, glassine d.w. Paris: Babou & Kahane; N.Y.: Fountain Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Number 128 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made pure linen Vidalon Royal, especially made for this edition. The glassine wrapper is yellowed, and chipped on the spine. Only the front and back panels of the slipcase are present. The book itself is fine.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, 368 of 500 on pure hand-made Vidalon Royal. 73, [1] pp. 4to. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake; a fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Printed wrappers, in glassine (glassine with loss at bottom rear portion). Fine First edition, 368 of 500 on pure hand-made Vidalon Royal.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Babou & Kahane, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Thin 4to, cream colored wrappers printed in green & black, glassine d.w. Paris: Babou & Kahane; N.Y.: Fountain Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Number 333 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made pure linen Vidalon Royal, especially made for this edition. The glassine wrapper is intact except for the spine which is mostly missing. The green & gilt slipcase is intact, though worn at the edges with a few chips.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 500 copies, on linen Vidalon Royal. 73, [1] pp. 4to. Limited first edition. First edition of this fragment of what would ultimately become Finnegans Wake; a fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon 41 Printed wrappers, fine in original damaged green slipcase First edition, one of 500 copies, on linen Vidalon Royal.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, JAMES.. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Paris & New York: Babou and Kahane/ The Fountain Press, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies; publisher's printed wrappers; about fine in the original glassine dust jacket, and publisher's slipcase (cracked, but still very good). All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James (Dublin 1882 - Zurich 1941),. Haveth childers everywhere. Paris/ New York, Henry Babou and Jack Kahane - The Fountain Press,, Paris/ New York, 1930.

Price: US$1556.16 + shipping

Description: Fragment from work in progress One of the 500 copies (n. 341) on hand-made pure linen vidalon royal (specially manufactured for this edition). Composed by hand in freshly cast elzévir corps. 8vo. pp. 76. . Molto buono (Very Good). Leggere crepe e piccole mancanze al dorso; un ex-libri applicato alla prima pag bianca. Interno ottimo (Spine cracking). Prima ed. di 100+500+X+LXXV esemplari numerati (Firs edition of 100+500+X+LXXV numbered copies). . Prima ed. di 100+500+X+LXXV esemplari numerati (Firs edition of 100+500+X+LXXV numbered copies).

Seller: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italy

JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Babou & Kahane, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Thin 4to, cream colored wrappers printed in green & black, glassine d.w. Paris: Babou & Kahane; N.Y.: Fountain Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Number 55 of 100 copies, printed on hand-made iridescent Japan, and signed by Joyce. The glassine wrapper is minimally chipped on the spine. Fine, lacking the slipcase.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane: The Fountain Press. Printed by Ducros et Colas, Paris, 1930.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Description: (11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches). First edition. 1-72 [2], pp. 72. Title and text printed in black and green. Running heads printed in green. Signed by Joyce in pencil on the limitation leaf. Numbered 70 out of 100 copies. Original glassine and white printed wrappers. Small area of loss at lower spine, minor tear and losses to glassine along spine. Within a modern full green morocco box with gilt decoration and lettering on spine, cloth chemise. First edition, deluxe issue: number 70 of 100 signed copies of what would ultimately become Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake. In 1930, Joyce sent to Faber and Faber's T. S. Eliot the following "nursery rhyme" to promote Haveth Childers Everywhere: Humptydump Dublin squeaks through his norse, Humptydump Dublin hath a horrible vorse And with all his kinks english Plus his irismanx brogues Humptydump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. Though Faber made little use of it, Joyce's jingle is a key to Haveth Childers Everywhere and Joyce's inherent contradictions: the giant of English literature, who was Irish; the pre-eminent Irish cultural figure, who couldn't speak the language - and wrote in English; the Anglo who had to go to the continent to find an audience; the difficult, cryptic modernist who still has millions of mainstream readers. In 1931, a New York Times reviewer wrote that Haveth Childers Everywhere is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language, and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics." Unfortunately, for the same reviewer, it "still remained absolutely incomprehensible." It took Joyce sixteen years to write Finnegans Wake, a book once aptly titled, as here, "Work in Progress." The finished novel was still nine years from publication when this fragment was released. Joyce began writing what would become Finnegans Wake shortly after Ulysses was published in 1922. Fragments of the novel were issued in a variety of formats by different publishers, including Haveth Childers Everywhere, produced in Paris by Obelisk Press founder Jack Kahane and the editor Henry Babou in April of 1930, and distributed in America by The Fountain Press. The publication nearly bankrupted Kahane and Babou. Haveth Childers Everywhere consists of the final part of what is now Chapter 3 of Book III of Finnegans Wake. This copy is one of one hundred numbered copies on "Imperial hand-made iridescent Japan" signed by the author, from a total edition of 685 copies. Slocum & Cahoon A41.

Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, JAMES.. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Paris & New York: Babou and Kahane/ The Fountain Press, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies on 'imperial hand-made iridescent japan' signed by the author. Publisher's wrappers; fine in the original glassine (a little worn and browned); in the publisher's cardboard slipcase (with some splitting and restoration). All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

JOYCE, JAMES. HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE. FRAGMENT FROM WORK IN PROGRESS. Fountain Press, Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York, 1930.

Price: US$15600.00 + shipping

Description: 283 x 191 mm. (11 1/8 x 7 1/2"). 72, [2] pp. Original white paper covers with printed titling on front and spine, leaves untrimmed and UNOPENED, IN THE ORIGINAL GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPPER. The whole in the original (slightly rubbed) three-panel stiff card folder covered with gilt paper. (Without the original slipcase.) Title printed in green and black, initials and headlines printed in green. Inside front cover of folder with bookplate of John Kobler. Slocum & Cahoon A-41. ◆Corners just slightly bumped, one small faint brown spot to tissue cover, but AN OUTSTANDING COPY, the very fragile and always-torn glassine entirely intact, and the text with no signs of use, most of it never having seen the light of day. This luxury version of an excerpt from "Finnegans Wake" is printed on especially pleasing handmade paper that glows like a pearl. In his book review for the New York Times (11 January 1931), Herbert Matthews says this fragment is "an attempt to enrich and refashion the English language, and as such is highly stimulating and carries the reader through a form of mental gymnastics which is not without its profit and amusement." However, he admits, "after an honest and patient effort, backed by a previous reading of all of Mr. Joyce's work, 'Haveth Childers Everywhere' still remained absolutely incomprehensible," and he expresses concern that "Mr. Joyce has gone a little further on the path he is hewing for himself toward what seems to be complete linguistic chaos." Perhap our previous owner found it equally rough going, for this copy has obviously never been read. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. No. 24 OF 100 COPIES ON IRIDESCENT HANDMADE JAPON, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (plus an additional 500 on paper and 75 writer's copies.).

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.

JOYCE, JAMES.. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Paris & New York: Babou and Kahane/ The Fountain Press, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$16500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies on 'imperial hand-made iridescent japan' signed by the author. Publisher's wrappers; fine in the original glassine; with the original gold colored sleeve and slipcase (minor mending). An exceptional copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James.. Haveth Childers Everywhere.. Babou and Kahane / The Fountain Press, Paris and New York, 1930.

Price: US$18500.00 + shipping

Description: 73 pp. Small folio, publisher's printed wrappers in glassine and publisher's slipcase. First edition; one of 100 copies on Imperial handmade iridescent Japan, signed by James Joyce. A near fine copy. The glassine is very slightly worn in spots. The slipcase has had some internao reinforcement, but is complete and attractive.

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