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Finnegans Wake
by JOYCE, James
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turqoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, el
- Seller
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East Hampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turqoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, else near fine. In unclipped typographic jacket, with some scuffing and light creasing at edges, with minor chipping to lower edge of front panel; thus close to near fine. A pleasing copy.. First American Edition. Thick octavo. The final state of Joyce's long-gestating "Work in Progress," published in the same year as the signed Limited Edition co-published by Viking with Faber & Faber.
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
- Harper's Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29584
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- JOYCE, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turqoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, el
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
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Books may be returned for any reason within two weeks provided they are received in the same condition as they were sent.
About the Seller
Harper's Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2009
East Hampton, New York
About Harper's Books, Inc.
Harper's Books, founded in 1997, is a bookshop and photography gallery located in East Hampton, New York. We are one of the world's leading dealers in photographic literature, with particular emphasis placed on association copies and landmark books presented in exceptional condition. In addition to our book business, we maintain a gallery space where photographs are exhibited in concert with books. Harper's Books is a member of the ABAA, and the only American rare book dealer chosen to exhibit yearly at Paris Photo.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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