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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 095477101X
- ISBN 13
- 9780954771010
- Seller
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Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland
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About This Item
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 over boards. Dublin, Houyhnhnm Press. 2010.
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 John O'Hanlon, designed by Martino Mardersteig, set in the Dante Val typeface, and printed offset and bound by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona for Houyhnhnm Press, Dublin. This First Edition was limited to a Special Issue consisting of 26 Lettered, 150 Numbered and 24 Hors Commerce copies printed on Magnani Mould made paper and hardbound in black calfskin; and a Trade Issue of 800 copies printed on Arcoprint and hardbound in black Imitlin and presented in a grey card slipcase. The Companion Volume contains a Note by Seamus Deane, a Foreward by Hans Walter Gabler, an Introduction by David Greetham, and a Preface and Afterword by the Editors.
Extended Description and Notes
One of 150 Numbered copies of the Special Issue, bound in full black calfskin. The first critically emended and completely reset edition of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" since its original publication in 1939.
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
- Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
(IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FW_2010_Special_No38
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Format/Binding
- 2 Volumes: Main volume is bound in full leather black calfskin, rounded and backed with gilt stamping on spine and front cover;
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Special Issue, No.38 (of 150 numbered copies)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 095477101X
- ISBN 13
- 9780954771010
- Publisher
- Houyhnhnm Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 504pp
- Size
- 20.5 x 29cm
- Keywords
- Danis Rose, John O'Hanlon, Editors.
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About the Seller
Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Biblio member since 2022
Ballydehob, Cork
About Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Welcome to the Biblio.com shop front for Houyhnhnm Press and Ithys Press, fine-press publishers of limited editions. We also collect and deal in modernist literature and books of Irish interest.
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
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