Haveth Childers Everywhere: Fragment of Work In Progress [Criterion Miscellany No. 26]
London: Faber & Faber, 1931. Very Good / Good +. Item #43175
London: Faber & Faber, 1931. First Edition, wrapper issue. Slim octavo (20cm); 36pp. Publisher’s yellow dust jacket; sewn binding. Dust jacket bumped and faded with a small chip at top edge of front panel. Jacket completely separated along spine. Boards toned. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean. Very Good, though lacking the original glassine jacket.
During the 1920s and 30s, Faber & Faber published short works by UK authors in their Criterion Miscellany series. The publisher printed Joyce’s Finnegans Wake this way, in brief installments under the title “Fragment of Work in Progress,” beginning in 1924. The completed novel was released (and its title revealed) in 1939. Haveth Childers Everywhere is a fragment of Finnegans Wake.
Slocum & Cahoon 42.
Price: $125.00