Haveth childers everywhere : fragment from Work in progress / by James Joyce.

Accession number: 
PML 197822
Author: 
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published: 
Paris : Henry Babou and Jack Kahane ; New York : Fountain Press, 1930.
Description: 
72, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes: 

"This volume constituting the only complete original edition of a fragment of Work in progress ..."--Verso of half-title page.
The Haveth Childers Everywhere episode covers p. 532-554 of Finnegans Wake, 1939.
Title in black and green, initial letter and running titles printed in green.
"100 copies on Imperial hand-made iridescent Japan, signed by the writer nos. 1 to 100; 500 copies on hand-made pure linen Vidalon Royal (specially manufactured for this edition) nos. 101 to 600; half of each category being for the United States of America. There have also been printed: 10 copies called writer's copies on Imperial hand-made iridescent Japan, nos. I to X; 75 copies called writer's copies on pure linen hand-made Vidalon Royal, nos. XI to LXXXV"--Verso of half title.
Library's copy hand-numbered XXXI and inscribed HCE below that--one of the 75 'writer's copies,' printed on Viadalon Royal.

Binding: 
Publisher's printed white wrappers, lettered in black and green and wrapped in glassine, issued in green slipcase edged in gold. Housed in modern blue-green cloth box, stamped on spine and on black leather spine label in gold.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Presentation inscription on front fly-leaf: To / Georges Borach / Souvenir de la Saints Bloom 1930 / James Joyce / Zurich / 16.vi.1930.

Provenance: 
Inscribed by the author to George Borach, 1930; The Walter and Vera Eberstadt Collection; Sotheby's (London)14 July 2015, lot 171; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
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