Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
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. -
First Edition Identification
Faber and Faber in London and Viking Press in New York simultaneously published Finnegans Wake in May 1939. True first editions are bound in yellow cloth with a red spine. The novel was published with a limited print run of just 500 numbered copies signed by Joyce. First editions have sold for upwards of $20,000.
Other Collectible or Notable Editions
In 2014, Folio Society published a new illustrated edition of Finnegans Wake with twelve collages and an insightful introduction by artist John Vernon Lord.
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition; Standard Issue.
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Two volume set: Main volume is hardbound in black Imitlin with gilt stamping; complementary volume is bound in light grey card c
- ISBN
- 9780954771010
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- 1
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Ballydehob, Cork, IRL
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A$572.29
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First Edition. New. One of 800 copies printed on Arcoprint and hardbound in black Imitlin, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and presented in a grey card slipcase with a complementary volume of essays.
The first critically emended and completely reset edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake since its original publication in 1939. Edited by Danis Rose and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition; Special Issue, No.38 (of 150 numbered copies)
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- 2 Volumes: Main volume is bound in full leather black calfskin, rounded and backed with gilt stamping on spine and front cover;
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- 9780954771010
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- 1
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Ballydehob, Cork, IRL
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A$5,049.60
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First Edition. New. One of 150 Numbered copies of the Special Issue. Copy No. 38, signed by the Editor and the Printer.
Printed on Magnani Mouldmade 130g deckle-edged paper. Royal quarto. Bound in full black calfskin over boards, gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. Presented in a black cloth-covered slipcase with a companion volume of introductory essays hardbound in grey paper… Read more about this item Item Price
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Published
- 1947
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- 1
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Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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A$158.01
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Stated: 5th printing, 1947.
Book is in Very Good- condition, with bit of what may be white paint smudged/dripped on top front corner of cover ~2" long and top rear corner ~1" long. Very light edgewear. Pages clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with edgewear, chipping, closed tears. Unfortunately the jacket was also placed in a permanent adhesive protector… Read more about this item Item Price
A$158.01
Finnegans Wake.
by JOYCE, James.
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- Used
- Published
- 1939
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- 1
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LONDON, GBR
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A$1,277.84
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Faber and Faber, London., 1939. First edition. Royal octavo. pp [iv], 628. Issued simultaneously with the U.S. edition.Bookplate on front pastedown. Bottom corner of rear cover bumped. Covers just a little marked and scuffed. First blank and last page of text unevenly tanned. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper. Item Price
A$1,277.84
Finnegan's Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Palm Desert, California, USA
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A$632.04
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New York : Viking Press, 1939. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine in publisher's original black cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Bookplate on front paste down, and evidence of a note on the half title page that was erased. (the indentations from the note are evident on both the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 1939
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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A$553.04
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New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good. 628pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Publisher's blue topstain. The text block is just only starting to crack at the half title page, but remains very sturdy and strong. Gilt lettering bright. Finnegans… Read more about this item Item Price
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FINNEGANS WAKE
by Joyce James
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- Used
- Published
- 1939
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- 1
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
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A$1,998.83
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London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, decorated on the spine with gilt lettering and ruling, with excellent and skillful facsimile of the original dustjacket. 628 pp. A handsome copy of the book with interesting notes to the verso of one leaf, very little evidence of age or… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,998.83
FINNEGANS WAKE
by Joyce James
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- Used
- Published
- 1939
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
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A$32,155.04
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London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition, First Issue, Signed by James Joyce and limited to 425 copies only, of which this is number 341. 8vo, publisher’s original red buckram lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. Yellow cloth slipcase expertly re-created as the original. 628. A fine copy, very… Read more about this item Item Price
A$32,155.04
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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A$1,422.09
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. First Printing, indicated by "First published May 1939." Binding is square and sound. Black cloth with gilt titles. Interior clean and unmarked. Age-toning throughout. Gilding on spine and cover bright. Faintest of fading at bottom of spine, otherwise black cloth clean and unfaded. DJ unclipped, price of $5.00 in tact. DJ worn,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,422.09
Finnegans Wake.
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1939
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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A$22,121.40
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London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First signed limited edition, number 115 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. Large octavo, original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt, original publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. In near fine condition. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922… Read more about this item Item Price
A$22,121.40
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Finnegan's Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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A$948.06
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1945 Viking Press True First/ First printing of Joyce's elusive opus. This book is in VG/VG condition. The HB has the beginning of a dent in the spine. The top stain is faded but visible. Otherwise a very clean &… Read more about this item Item Price
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Finnegan's Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- first this
- Published
- 1983
- Binding
- Green paper
- ISBN
- 9780295959917
- Quantity Available
- 1
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pdx, Oregon, USA
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A$47.40
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Finn again, as illustrated by tim Ahern. Trying to keep to the spirit of the book. Pictures to match the wordsTitle, in white author and illustration in white. illustrator and subtitle in black on front green coverfront bottom corner turned upa little wear along bottom edge front coverText Unmarked.get a friend, a bottle and bring Finn back to life.
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Finnegans Wake (In Dustjacket)
by James Joyce
- Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Waccabuc, New York, USA
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A$237.02
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
A$237.02
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Finnegans Wake.
by JOYCE, James.
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- Used
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London, London, GBR
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A$6,389.18
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London, Faber & Faber, 1939. . First edition, first impression, trade issue; large 8vo; publisher's burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, spotting to the first and last leaves from the endpapers, as always, dust jacket with some very minor loss at the top edge, otherwise a very good copy.
One of 3,400 sets of sheets for… Read more about this item Item Price
A$6,389.18
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Eleventh Printing
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$197.51
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New York: The Viking Press, 1964. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 628pp; DJ professionally repaired, age-toned & dampstained, with chipping & edgewear & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, inscrs. to front pastedown, previous owner's name to half-title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good condition. Major work of 20th century Modernist fiction considered… Read more about this item Item Price
A$197.51
Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780571108077
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Oswestry, Shropshire, GBR
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A$9.46
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Faber. A near vg copy. No markings. Slight creasing to the spine. and very minor signs of wear to the edges of the attractive black, green and white binding. Guaranteed condition. . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition thus. 1975. Item Price
A$9.46
Finnegans Wake
by JOYCE James
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1939
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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A$8,690.55
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1939. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, (1939). Large octavo, original red cloth, uncut and unopened, original dust jacket. $5500.First trade edition of Joyce’s ""last and most innovative prose work.""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… [that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1999-12-01
- ISBN
- 9780141181264
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, USA
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A$31.60
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628 pp. Previous Owner's name is on the top corner of the author's description page. Very slight wear to the front cover's bottom edge. Text is clean and unmarked. part of Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics series. Item Price
A$31.60
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FINNEGANS WAKE
by Joyce, James
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- FIRST
- Published
- 1939
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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PASADENA, California, USA
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A$1,580.10
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VIKING, 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET WITH PRICE. slightly darkened fep.tape on back of dj. With card from JUDGE WOOLSEY who presided over the trial for ULYSSES. Great association copy.. Item Price
A$1,580.10
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Hardback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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A$1,965.90
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London: Faber & Faber. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Hardback bound in original red publisher's cloth, spine a touch sunned, slight edge-wear, a touch scuffed on rear board; Pages lightly age-toned, rough-cut edges, top-edge sprayed red, flecked staining to top and fore-edges, prior bookshop label on front pastedown ['The Roycroft Book &… Read more about this item Item Price
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