[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited First Edition of James Joyce's FINNEGANS WAKE

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, signed 
books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the unusual.

JOYCE,   James.  FINNEGANS   WAKE.  London/New   York:   Faber &
Faber/Viking  Press  1939.  First Edition. Original red  buckram  with
gilt  lettering on the spine. Copy #222 of 425 numbered copies printed
on  handmade  paper and SIGNED by the author on the  limitation  page.
One  of the most important books of modern English fiction, if not one
of  the  more readable. "Joyce insisted that each word, each  sentence
had  several  meanings and that the 'ideal lecteur' should devote  his
lifetime  to it, like the Koran" (Connolly, THE MODERN MOVEMENT,  81);
"The  greatest failure in literature" (Burgess, 99 NOVELS: THE BEST IN
ENGLISH  SINCE 1939, page 25). Touch of wear to the heel of the  spine
which   is  mildly  sunned.  Lacking   original  slipcase  but  with a
custom-made slipcase. Near Fine in a Fine custom slipcase.  $17,500.00


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