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contribution, entitled “Work in Progress”, is the introductory passage of H. C. Earwicker later published in Finnegans Wake . Hemingway’s story, entitled “Soldier’s Home”, was his first published contribution to a book or pamphlet. The exhibition Les Années Vingt: Les Écrivains Américains à Paris et Leurs Amis, 1920–1930 (“The Twenties: American Writers and Their Friends in Paris”) was mounted in Paris in 1959. It was a public exhibition of items from Shakespeare and Company’s archives and ran for ten weeks at the United States Embassy. The inscription strongly suggests that this book was part of Sylvia Beach’s own collection, exhibited on this occasion, and then presented to Cody as thanks for his involvement. (For Robert McAlmon, see items 64 and 65; for Sylvia Beach, item 51.) Octavo. Original grey wrappers, printed in black, all edges untrimmed, many unopened. Housed in an elaborate burgundy morocco and marbled paper chemise and slipcase. Some browning to wrappers, short tears to joints, some nicks to edges; a very good copy with clean contents. Chemise and slipcase worn at extremities with some splitting. ¶ Grissom, Hemingway B1; Slocum, Joyce B7. £3,750 [153851] 3 BECKETT, Samuel, & others. The European Caravan. An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931 beckett’s first appearance in an american publication, in the striking dust jacket First edition, first printing. Containing four poems by Beckett, this was the sole volume published of an extensively planned project designed to bring a cross-section of cutting-edge world literature to the American public. The venture was never fully realised, though perhaps its lasting legacy will prove to have been as Beckett’s first appearance in a US publication.
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green, top edge green. With dust jacket. Front hinge starting, tips rubbed. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with toned spine, some nicks and chips to extremities. ¶ Federman & Fletcher 9a; b; c; d. £1,250 [96870] 4 BORDEN, Mary. The Forbidden Zone. London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1929 one of the greatest of all wartime books by a woman First edition, first impression, an exceptional copy in the jacket, rare thus. In 1915 Chicago-born Mary Borden (1886–1968) “went to Dunkirk to work in a typhoid hospital; she remained in France, running (at her own expense) a mobile hospital at the front. In recognition of her services she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d’honneur . . . [her] most enduring book is The Forbidden Zone (1929), sketches and poems written with a bleak realism that make this one of the greatest of all wartime books by a woman” ( ODNB ). This “collection of fragments”, as Borden calls it in her Preface, is dedicated to “the Poilus who passed through our hands during the war” and is divided into three parts: “The North”, “The Somme: Hospital Sketches”, and “Poems”, four of which are included in Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Kendall, pp. 75–84). Octavo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, shattered tree motif (reproduced from frontispiece) on front cover, grey patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Half-tone frontispiece of “The zone at Thiepval, near the Somme, in 1916. From the drypoint by Percy Smith”; title page printed in blue and black. A fine copy in an exceptional jacket, marred only by some toning around spine and along top edge. ¶ Not in Falls or Lengel. Tim Kendall, ed., Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology , 2013. £1,500 [153778]
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