1925 Two Worlds Roth New Unnamed Work Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1st Pirated US
Published by Samuel Roth, 1925
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
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Condition: Used - Fair
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Two Worlds. A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations. Edited by Samuel Roth. Contributing Editors Arthur Symons - Ezra Pound - Ford Madox Ford. Published Once Every three Months, New York. 1925-1926. 500 Copies of Each Number Were Printed. Volume One: Numbers 1-4. Uniform softcover bindings measure 8.5 x 6\", 8vos. Volume 1 Number 1: September 1925 A New Unnamed Work First Installment pages 46-55. Volume 1 Number 2: December 1925 A New Unnamed Work Second Installment pages 111-114. Volume 1 Number 3: March 1926 A New Unnamed Work Third Installment pages 347-360. Volume 1 Number 4: June 1926 A New Unnamed Work Fourth Installment pages 545-560. In fair condition. Covers normally scuffed at edges and worn\/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines scuffed; tail of Number 3 chipped with exposed binding. Age-staining on edges of text-blocks, especially numbers 3 & 4. Toning around edges of covers. Text-blocks toned in margins. Bindings brittle, but intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Containing the First American publication (unauthorized\/pirated) of the serialization of Finnegans Wake (here titled A New Unnamed Work). Despite protests from Joyce, made via his Paris publisher Sylvia Beach, Roth went on to add insult to injury by publishing extracts from Ulysses in the same magazine, again without authorization. This led to the International Protest, signed by 167 artists and writers and published in transition in 1927, and an injunction against Roth was finally issued in 1928. Periods of incarceration followed for Roth, mostly for publishing pornography (literary or otherwise). A hugely antagonistic figure in the world of letters, he was nonetheless responsible for the easing of US obscenity laws when Roth v. United States was heard by the Supreme Court in 1957, which decided that the 'likely to deprave and corrupt' test for questionable material was too widely drawn, and that the law would henceforth take into account whether 'the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.'. All of which was neither here nor there for James Joyce, who received no royalties from this piracy. LACKING: Fifth (and final) installment of A New Unnamed Work Volume 1 Number 5 September 1926. First four (out of five) installments of the 1st American Appearance of an authorized\/pirated edition of Finnegans Wake. FORN-TUB-0095-BB-2512-HK2963. …
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- Title
- 1925 Two Worlds Roth New Unnamed Work Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1st Pirated US
- Author
- James Joyce; Samuel Roth (Editor)
- Publisher
- Samuel Roth
- Publication year
- 1925
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
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