Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
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, with smalls tears and chipping around edges including 2.5" tear at front top left.
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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- The Common Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1040082
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- James Joyce
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Pages
- 628
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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