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Lot 123
  • 123

Joyce, James

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description

  • Joyce, James
  • Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber / New York: The Viking Press, 1939
  • PAPER
8vo (254 by 155mm.), FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 354 OF 425 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original red buckram lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, publisher's yellow cloth slipcase, removed bookplate, head and foot of spine slightly bumped, minor marks to endpapers, slipcase slightly worn and soiled

Literature

Slocum and Cahoon A49

Catalogue Note

The limitation notes that 125 copies were for sale in Great Britain and 300 copies in America. Slocum and Cahoon note that, in reality, there were 310 copies sent to the United States.