JOYCE, James.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Finnegans Wake. First US trade edition, issued simultaneously with the UK and signed limited editions on 4 May 1939. "After Ulysses Joyce believed that he had 'come to the end of English', and his last novel is a pervasive layering of multilingual puns in successive drafts which produces a fabric rich in semantic possibilities" (ODNB).

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