Item #165289 FINNEGANS WAKE. James Joyce.

FINNEGANS WAKE.

Pp. [iv]+628; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edges yellow, others uncut and partly unopened; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and chipped, with large piece torn from top edge of front panel (causing loss to first 5 letters of first word of title), with a smaller piece torn from the back panel causing loss of one letter of title, remains of early tape repairs to wrapper edges on reverse, the backstrip slightly discoloured; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a couple of marginal damp stains, some foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; Faber & Faber, London, 1939. First trade edition. Slocum & Cahoon A47; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 87. *James Joyce's final work, 950 copies of which (still in sheet form) were destroyed by the publishers. 'When one of the very greatest of modern authors completes a work to which he has devoted sixteen years of labour - and which, hitherto described as Work in Progress, has been more talked about and written about during the period of its composition than any previous work of English literature - then the publishers feel that they should waste no words in describing the book which would be the most important event of any season in which it appeared' [wrapper blurb]. Item #165289

Price: $3,500.00

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