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James Joyce (1882-1941) Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition, limited issue, quarto; number 187 of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen from a total run of 650; illustrated with an abstract portrait of Joyce by Brancusi; bound in original cream printed wrappers, glassine jacket preserved; housed in the original gilt publisher's slipcase (small losses to glassine, mostly at corners and spine ends, one split at fold; two very minor marginal tears; top of slipcase detached but present); 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun is the second separately published excerpt from what would become Finnegans Wake, preceded by Anna Livia Plurabelle. Slocum & Cahoon 36.