Lot 229
  • 229

Joyce, James

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber and New York: Viking Press, 1939
  • paper, ink
Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 in.; 253 x 165 mm). Publisher's brick red buckram, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, unuct and unopened; spine faded and with some spotting.

Provenance

Charles R. Rudolo (signature in pencil dated "1939" on front free endpaper)

Literature

Slocum & Cahoon A49

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION. COPY 164 OF 425 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY JOYCE.