JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber. 1939. Large 8vo. First trade edition, first printing. Handsomely rebound by Stephen Conway in full morocco mimicking the original cloth and jacket, with gilt lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, housed in a custom slipcase. A very bright and fine example, the contents clean throughout, the final page quite heavily toned, one or two other singular marks across the volume, but fine.
Joyce’s allusive Work in Progress, a high point in literary modernism and an infinitely difficult novel due mostly to its extreme experimentalism, scholarly plot and abundance of characters. With this cataloguer’s favourite first line which merrily sweeps well over his ducking head. An exceptional copy.
JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber. 1939. Large 8vo. First trade edition, first printing. Handsomely rebound by Stephen Conway in full morocco mimicking the original cloth and jacket, with gilt lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, housed in a custom slipcase. A very bright and fine example, the contents clean throughout, the final page quite heavily toned, one or two other singular marks across the volume, but fine.
Joyce’s allusive Work in Progress, a high point in literary modernism and an infinitely difficult novel due mostly to its extreme experimentalism, scholarly plot and abundance of characters. With this cataloguer’s favourite first line which merrily sweeps well over his ducking head. An exceptional copy.
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