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Finnegans Wake (In Dustjacket)
by James Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1949. Cloth. Good +/Good +. A presentable, serviceable copy of the 1949 4th edition. Tight and Good+ in its light-red cloth, with an intriguing full-page inscription on the front free endpaper, light offsetting along the spine, the pastedowns and the endsheets, and mild spotting to the fore-edge. And in a bright, price-intact, Good+ example of the chocolate-brown dustjacket, with roughly 1/3 to 40% of the spine missing and very light chipping and creasing along the edges. Octavo, 628 pgs. of text, written between 1922-1939 (as stated at the end of the text), 18 pgs. at the rear of "Corrections of Misprints in FINNEGANS WAKE"
Synopsis
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for an experimental style and its resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of 17 years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19400
- Title
- Finnegans Wake (In Dustjacket)
- Author
- James Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- rare modern literature, rare James Joyce, early editions of Finnegans Wake, rare Finnegans Wake
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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