Finnegans wake first edition7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. "Finnegans Wake" stands as “Joyce’s last and most innovative prose work, written in a revolutionary narrative style that approximates the protean nocturnal dream world… Joyce the freedom he needed to weave together archetypal and historical themes that embrace, among other things, the creation, the fall and the resurrection of humanity” (Fargnoli & Gillespie, 74). Pages are uncut and there appears to be no marks or bookplates within. The binding is tight with no cocking or leaning. With faint rubbing and bumping to the spine edges and corners. The book is in excellent condition and appears to be unread. Housed in the publisher's yellow slipcase. ![]() Original red cloth binding with gilt titling at the spine. Signed on the limitation page "James Joyce" in blue ink. Large octavo, -628pp, uncut and partially unopened. London and New York: Faber & Faber and The Viking Press, 1939. James Joyce Signed Limited 1st Edition "Finnegans Wake" with SlipcaseĪ signed limited first edition copy of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". ![]()
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