SIGNED LIMITED EDITION IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE
Finnegan's Wake
Faber & Faber, 1939.
First edition, limited issue. Number 149 of 425 copies signed by Joyce. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In its original yellow cloth slipcase and with its rare original card shipping box. Including a 1945 pamphlet of "Corrections of misprints in Finnegans Wake". A fine copy in a fine slipcase, exceptionally bright and crisp having been protected by the original shipping box.
The signed issue of Joyce's most complex and final substantial work. Initially titled Work in Progress, Finnegans Wake took Joyce sixteen years to write. The bright yellow slipcase, where present, is particularly prone to soiling. This copy, having been protected by the original packing case made for shipping the book safely to subscribers, is in virtually unblemished condition.
"The Wake reminds me of the unfinished obelisk which lies on its side at Assuan, yet it has passages of unearthly beauty (particularly the last page) and huge comic scenes." Connolly.
Stock ID: 46671
£30,000.00
