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[6], 194, [2] pp. 20.5x15 cm. (8x6"), original wrappers, glassine jacket. Number 69 of 96 copies on Verge d'Arches. First Edition, deluxe issue.

Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "With the ex-publisher's best wishes to Bjorn Rasmussen. Sylvia Beach (Shakespeare and Company) January 24th, 1962." A survey of James Joyce's "Works in Progress" parts 1 and 3 from twelve different angles, attributed to Joyce's two pseudonyms G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon, dealing with Joyce's linguistic innovations in installments of the experimental "Work in Progress," which was later to become "Finnegans Wake." Also Samuel Beckett's First book appearance. Other contributors, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, and William Carlos Williams. Cover design by Sylvia Beach. Copies of this deluxe issue inscribed by Sylvia Beach are quite rare. Only 2 other inscribed copies having appeared at auction in the last 30 years.