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1939Best.-Nr. 6104London: Faber and Faber 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded minor chips and tears mostly a the extremities and some smudges to the jacket panels. Among the most influential and complex Modernist works Finnegans Wake "blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive of the novel inspired by the 18th century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico is that history is cyclical.the novel's plot is nearly as complex as the linguistic tactics deployed by Joyce who combined a number of languages and utilized complex sonic implications to create an atmosphere of wordplay and hidden meaning throughout the entirety of Finnegans Wake" Britannica. A natural progression from his earlier masterpiece Ulysses Finnegans Wake shows Joyce pressing his ability to weave together numerous languages cultural mythologies and national literatures to defy boundaries and binaries we so often lean on to understand the world. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Faber and Faber unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 214188BLondon: Faber and Faber Limited 1950. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 628 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's inscriptions on the ffep and the reverse of the ffep. Page edges are lightly darkened and smudged. Fading red publisher's stain on the head edges. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Brown dustjacket in very good condition with beige and brown titles. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. Large tears run up the sides of the spine. Scuffed and creased on the spine. 2nd edition. NPC. VG/FAIR Faber and Faber Limited hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 29584New York: The Viking Press 1939. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turquoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges else near fine. In unclipped typographic jacket with some scuffing and light creasing at edges with minor chipping to lower edge of front panel; thus close to near fine. A pleasing copy. First American Edition. Thick octavo. The final state of Joyce's long-gestating "Work in Progress" published in the same year as the Limited Edition co-published by Viking with Faber & Faber. New York: The Viking Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 144747029X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 165289London: Faber & Faber 1939. Pp. iv628; med. 8vo; red cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edges yellow others uncut and partly unopened; price-clipped dust wrapper edges rubbed and chipped with large piece torn from top edge of front panel causing loss to first five letters of first word of title with a smaller piece torn from the back panel causing loss of one letter of title remains of early tape repairs to wrapper edges on reverse the backstrip slightly discoloured; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown a couple of marginal damp stains some foxing mainly to outer leaves and edges; Faber & Faber London 1939. First trade edition. Slocum & Cahoon A47; Connolly The Modern Movement 87. James Joyce's final work 950 copies of which still in sheet form were destroyed by the publishers. 'When one of the very greatest of modern authors completes a work to which he has devoted sixteen years of labour - and which hitherto described as Work in Progress has been more talked about and written about during the period of its composition than any previous work of English literature - then the publishers feel that they should waste no words in describing the book which would be the most important event of any season in which it appeared' wrapper blurb. Faber & Faber unknown
Best.-Nr. 107461London Faber & Faber 1939. . First edition first impression trade issue; large 8vo; publisher's burgundy cloth titles to spine gilt spotting to the first and last leaves from the endpapers as always dust jacket with some very minor loss at the top edge otherwise a very good copy. One of 3400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of Finnegans Wake which were printed for Faber. Of these 2255 were bound and sold at 25 shillings 950 were destroyed by the publisher and the remaining were gratis copies. It is possible that the 950 discarded sets of sheets remained unsold because of the price which Joyce believed was too high. 'A way alone aloved alost along the ' If Finnegans Wake is a key book it is a key which needs a key' Connolly. 'His work is enriched by such large resources of invention and allusion that its total effect is infinite variety' Harry Levin. Slocum & Cahoon A47; Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Harry Levin James Joyce: A Critical Interpretation. London, Faber & Faber, 1939. hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 137512London: Faber & Faber 1939. First signed limited edition number 115 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. Large octavo original red cloth titles to spine in gilt top edge gilt original publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. In near fine condition. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faber & Faber hardcover
Best.-Nr. MN19459MGallimard Collection Folio nº 2964 2005 Paris. 18x11. 928 pgs. Firma en portada. Texto en francés. 658763 Gallimard, Collection Folio nº 2964, 2005, Paris. unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 139672New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and ruling to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels gilt signature to the front panel inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Viking Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 3518114395.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2010Best.-Nr. FW_2010_StandardFirst Edition. New. One of 800 copies printed on Arcoprint and hardbound in black Imitlin stamped in gilt on spine and front cover and presented in a grey card slipcase with a complementary volume of essays. 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 is 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. Houyhnhnm Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 8087888111.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 053109New York: Viking Press 1939. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 628pp.; HB blk.w/gilt; slight rub w/hinges cracked; PONstamp; cleantight pgs. DJ pale bluegray w/bluered&white; heavy rub&soil w/2x5"chipspine; wear on edges&corners; tape repairs on spine&edges. Joyce classic 6.25x9.75 Viking Press hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. mon0000183895Faber & Faber; New York 1939-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover - the dust cover has been laminated onto the hardcover. Well-read copy with some spine wear but still useable. Colouring of pages due to age. Published by Faber & Faber London in 1964. Faber & Faber; New York paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 133129New York: The Viking Press 1939. First American edition one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Viking Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2070209105.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1972Best.-Nr. Q-0811204464New Directions Publishing 1972-01-17. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! New Directions Publishing paperback
Best.-Nr. 0140042288.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
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Best.-Nr. 0295959916.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 33633New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; No dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth titled in gilt. First edition first printing. Tight and unmarked with a touch of corner/edge wear and some faint staining to cloth. Bookshop tag to rear endpage. The original DJ in mylar is lightly dampstained chipped edgeworn and sunned to spine with a tiny hole mid spine. Flap price $5.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 628pp pages . Viking Press hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. Q-0140062866Penguin Books 1982-02-25. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
Best.-Nr. Q-0670000450Viking Press 1959-01-02. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Viking Press paperback
2002Best.-Nr. Q-0571217354Faber and Faber 2002-11-04. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Faber and Faber paperback
1939Best.-Nr. pba 1018VIKING 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET WITH PRICE. slightly darkened fep.tape on back of dj. With card from JUDGE WOOLSEY who presided over the trial for ULYSSES. Great association copy. VIKING Hardcover
