JOYCE | Collection of Two Worlds & Transition, in total 37 issues

Property of a German Collector

JOYCE, JAMES

COLLECTION OF ISSUES OF "TWO WORLDS" AND "TRANSITION", FEATURING FINNEGANS WAKE AND ULYSSES, IN TOTAL 37 VOLUMES:

Two Worlds, A New Unnamed Work [Finnegans Wake], Volume One, Number 1, September 1925 [C.65. I.1], wrappers

Two Worlds, A New Unnamed Work [Finnegans Wake], Volume One, Number 2 December 1925 [C.65. I.2], wrappers

Two Worlds, A New Unnamed Work [Finnegans Wake], Volume One, Number 3, March 1926 [C.65. I.3], wrappers, slipcase,

Two Worlds, A New Unnamed Work [Finnegans Wake], Volume One, Number 4, June 1926 [C.65. I.4], wrappers, slipcase,

Two Worlds, A New Unnamed Work [Finnegans Wake], Volume Two, Number 5, September 1926 [C.65. ii.5], wrappers, slipcase

transition, Opening Pages of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 1, April 1927, second edition, [C.70.1], green wrappers

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 2, May 1927, [C.70.2], brown wrappers, chipping with sections of wrappers and spine lacking and detached,

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 3, June 1927, [C.70.3], wrappers, wrappers chipping and worn at extremities

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 4, July 1927, [C.70.4], wrappers, worn at extremities

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 6, September 1927, second edition, [C.70.6], wrappers,

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 7, October 1927, [C.70.7], wrappers,

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 7, February 1928, [C.70.11], wrappers,

transition, Continuation of A Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 13, Summer 1928, [C.70.13], wrappers, cover by Picasso, wrappers worn and detached with chipping

transition, Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake], Number 26, Summer 1928, [C.70.13], wrappers, wrappers with chipping and lacking corner

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume One, Number One, [July 1926], [C.68.i.1], 2 copies, wrappers

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume One, Number Two, [August 1926], [C.68.i.2], 2 copies, wrappers

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume One, Number Three, [September 1926], [C.68.i.3], 2 copies, wrappers

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume One, Number Four, [October 1926], [C.68.i.4], 2 copies, wrappers

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Two, Number One, December 1926, [C.68.ii.1], 2 copies, wrappers, wrappers chipping with corners lacking

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Two, Number Two, January 1927, [C.68.ii.2], 2 copies, wrappers, one with wrappers detached

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Two, Number Three, February 1927, [C.68.ii.3], 2 copies, wrappers, one with wrappers detached

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Two, Number Four, March 1927, [C.68.ii.4], 2 copies, wrappers,

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Three, Number One, April 1927, [C.68.iii.1], wrappers,

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Three, Number Two, May-June 1927, [C.68.iii.2], 2 copies, wrappers,

Two Worlds Monthly, Ulysses, Volume Three, Number Three, September 1927, [C.68.iii.3], 2 copies, wrappers, one with spine chipping

Also with: transition, Number 9, December 1927, red wrappers; transition, Number 10, January 1928, wrappers

The issues of Two Worlds included here make up all five installments of "Work in Progress" [here termed "A New Unnamed Work"] which were published by Samuel Roth in New York between September 1925 and September 1926, reprinted (unauthorised by Joyce) from European publications. 

Transition was founded by the editor and poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria. Between April 1927 and April-May 1938 they ran serially all of Part I, the first three chapters of Part II and all of Part III of Finnegans Wake. This lot includes nine of those issues.

Two Worlds Monthly reprinted 14 episodes of Ulysses in bowdlerised form between July 1926 and October 1927. Eleven are included in this lot. The unauthorised publication provoked the "International Protest" signed by 167 artists and writers which was printed in transition in April 1927, and an injunction against the publisher Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company on 27 December 1928.

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