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    THE QUENTIN KEYNES COLLECTION

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    7 - 8 April 2004

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    Lot 741

    JOYCE, James. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Paris: Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929.

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    GBP 717

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    GBP 500 - GBP 800

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    JOYCE, James. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Paris: Roger Lescaret for The Black Sun Press, 1929.

    4° (210 x 165mm). Title and text printed in red and black. Etched frontispiece after Constantin Brancusi, diagram in the text. (Some very light offsetting, a few minor marks.) Original printed wrappers.

    FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 650 COPIES, THIS NO. 1 OF 500 ON HOLLAND VAN GELDER ZONEN. Minkoff A21; Published in Paris p.408; Slocum and Cahoon Joyce A36.

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