Givens, Seon (Editor)
James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism.
Vanguard Press, 1948. 482 pages. First edition.
Volume is bound in green cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book shows sliver of discoloration along the top edges. Binding is beginning to crack at half title page. Armorial bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Dust jacket displays edgewear, with minor loss. Included are various pieces of ephemera: a piece published in the New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review by J. Mitchell Morse entitled ""Finnegans Wake," These Ten Years After: An Explorer Finds It Still Riddling - And Ever More Satisfying"; a Partisan Review article by Stanislaus Joyce bearing the title "Joyce's Dublin"; seven stapled sheets documenting the Rooftop Production of "James Joyce's Ulysses in Nighttown," directed by Burgess Meredith, with text supervision by Padriac Colum with Zero Mostel. This last document lists cast and other participants in the production, with two pages of biography entries for main players.