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[JOYCE, James (1882?1941), contributor]. Contact Collection...

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[JOYCE, James (1882?1941), contributor]. Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Edited by Robert McAlmon. [Dijon: Maurice Daranti?re for Contact Editions and Three Mountains Press, 1925]. 8vo. Modern black niger, raised bands, black morocco lettering?piece gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; original printed gray wrappers bound in (dust soiled). FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies containing Joyce?s ?From Work in Progress? (later being part of Finnegans Wake, pp. 30?34). Other literary contributors include Djuna Barnes, Norman Douglas, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway (Soldiers Home which first appeared in the American edition of In Our Time), Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams. Hanneman B3; Slocum and Cahoon B7.