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JOYCE, James.

The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies.

A Fragment From Work In Progress.

Stock Code
106163
London and The Hague, The Servire Press for Faber and Faber, 1934
£975

A beautiful piece of Dutch book production, with Lucia's characteristic illustrations. Prints a famous section of Finnegans Wake (the known as Work In Progress). There a number of issues of this publication, the present example being from the preferred Faber batch thus representing the true UK first edition.

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Description

First edition, first printing, regular issue, limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper (there were also 29 casebound copies, each signed by the author); large 8vo; initial letter, tail-piece and cover designed by the author's daughter Lucia; publisher's cream wrappers, titles to spine in blue decoration and titles to front wrapper in blue, black and silver, with the original silvered card slipcase titles in silver on a pink ground. Spine a little faded but a lovely copy in the slightly defective slipcase.

Bibliography

Slocum and Cahoon A43.

Stock ID:106163

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