Fine Books and Manuscripts
Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lot Closed
December 16, 09:33 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Joyce, James
Finnegans Wake. London and New York: Faber & Faber and The Viking Press, 1939
8vo (253 x 155 mm). Signed by Joyce on the limitation statement, half-title, title-page, partially unopened; stray spots. In original smooth red buckram, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed; very lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. In the original yellow slipcase.
First edition, limited issue of Joyce's unparalleled modernist experiment. Copy 200 of 425 numbered copies, signed by the author. Slocum & Cahoon note that in fact "310 copies were sent to the United States instead of the 300 noted in the statement of limitation."
REFERENCE:
Slocum & Cahoon A49