Finnegans Wake

by Joyce, James

$20,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition, signed limited issue. Number 334 of limited 425 copies signed by James Joyce. 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. In original yellow cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with trivial fading to spine. Foxing and soiling to slipcase, light edge wear. A handsome copy of Joyce's final, linguistically complex novel that took him seventeen years to complete; scarce. Slocum & Cahoon A49.

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Year: 1939
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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