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

[Charles Agvent]

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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