Our Exagmination Round His Facification For Incamination Of Work In Progress; with Letters Of Protest By G.V.L. Slingby and Vladimir Dixon

London: Faber And Faber, 1929. First English language edition. Hardcover. Orig. azure blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper with slightly faded spine. 191 (2) pages. 19 x 14.5 cm. Published from the original French sheets. Critical essays on Joyce's "Finnegans Wake. Beckett, in Joyce's company at the time, and his essay (the first of the essays here published, by virtue of the alphabet) is his first publication notes, "It takes few intellectual prisoners: " . . . if you don’t understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it." Clean copy, pencil notations front free endpaper.