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1939rif. 17673London: Faber and Faber Limited 1939. First Edition First Impression. Cloth. Very good. First edition first impression of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce published in 1939. Octavo 8 628pp. Full red cloth title in gilt on spine. Yellow topstain untrimmed edges. Stated "First published in MCMXXXIX by Faber and Faber Limited" on title page no additional printings listed. Solid text block wear to cloth mostly along rear cover. Foxing to endpapers one leaf drawn on with red colored pencil. Previous ownership inscription dated 1944. Includes a "Complimentary Copy / Not for Sale" stamp on Page 628. Lacking the publisher's dust jacket. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise title in gilt on black label affixed to red morocco spine. A very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A47. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce was published on May 4 1939 by Faber and Faber in London and Viking Press in New York. Joyce worked on the novel for over sixteen years initially publishing excerpts under the working title Work in Progress in various literary journals starting in 1924. Sections appeared in transition The Criterion and other outlets often accompanied by commentary from fellow writers. The final book a dense and experimental text was typeset and printed in France due to its complex typography and Joyce's publishing relationships. It was his last major work released just two years before his death. Faber and Faber Limited unknown
1939rif. 046323London: Faber and Faber Limited 1939. Original maroon cloth on boards with new red leather spine and gilt ttiles on red leather strips. Clean cover. Edges: browned and old foxings. Eps: fep with faded name 16 September '41 new ffep. Light foxing to most pages a few only pages with heavy foxing. Two pages bottom fore corner dog-eared. One page bottom half with a 11 cm angled tear and old clear tape repair and tape impression on verso page. Two pages with narrow thin vertical clear tape to fore-edge with small section missing underneath. Binding is As New. Rep & refp with full page of penciled notes. 628p Rep maroon pocket: a booklet Criterion Miscellany.No. 26 Haveth Childers Everywhere without outer cover; maroon spine strip and string binding. Light foxing to cover with initals TB September '33 moderate foxing and couple of penciled notes. 36p`. First UK Edition. Hb. VG/None. Faber and Faber Limited Hardcover
1939rif. 72436London: Faber & Faber 1939. First edition trade issue. Very good or better with endpapers foxed and first blank and last page of text darkened along hinges; in about very good dust jacket with spine lettering unevenly tanned and somewhat noticeable professional repair along edges. Still an attractive copy in dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A47. Faber & Faber unknown
1939rif. 72437New York: Viking Press 1939. First U.S. edition trade issue. In the correct first-printing dust jacket with "First Regular Edition $5.00" on front flap. Very good to near fine in good to very good dust jacket showing small chips and tears as well as internal reinforcement/repair at spine ends and corners that is visible in a few small areas. Slocum & Cahoon A48. Viking Press unknown
rif. 43078Frankfurt Zweitausendeins o. J. ca. 1993. 4° 628 S. OLwd. in Schuber M. ausführlicher Widmung a Schmutztitel sonst tadell. Lizenzausgabe der EA beim Verlag Jürgen Häusser 1993. 010 Frankfurt, Zweitausendeins, o. J. (ca. 1993) unknown
1960rif. RJOYFIN00jtmViking Press 1960. Very Good. Joyce James. Finnegans Wake. NY: Viking Press 1960. 628pp. 8vo. Red cloth. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with yellowing chipped edges and few stains. In dust jacket protector. Viking Press hardcover
1966rif. 057308London: Faber and Faber Limited 1966. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo. LONDON : 1966. Second impression of Third Edition. Joyce's final novel - first issued in 1939. Includes 'corrections of misprints'. A major twentieth century literary work that few experts can agree about. Hardback. Dark-red cloth; gilt lettered spine. In cream and red printed dust-jacket. Bright tight and clean. Feint number to title-verso. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. Jacket fresh and clean with no tears not price-clipped 50s. VERY GOOD INDEED; in like jacket. An uncommon edition in its jacket and excellent state. Rosley Books for Literature. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce; 2 February 1882 to 13 January 1941. Irish expatriate writer widely regarded to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Joyce was born into a Roman Catholic family in Dublin - and had a turbulent early relationship with the Church. He greatly influenced Beckett. Joyce spent nearly seventeen years working on Finnegans Wake - a book forged out of difficult times for the author. Joyce underwent frequent eye surgery his children had personal problems that he had to deal with and the Joyce family had many financial difficulties. Whiskey splashes on Finnegan's corpse - and he awakes! Joyce removed the apostrophe in the title to assert an active process in which a multiplicity of 'Finnegans' that is all of us wake i.e. arise after falling. Published - starting in 1924 - in installments the work began to appear in serialized form first under the title 'A New Unnamed Work' and subsequently as 'Work in Progress'. Rosley Books for Literature. . 'Yand spate told hase withgelt. Mm tmm' RB. 2007. SCARCE. Faber and Faber Limited hardcover
1939rif. 18252London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full marroon cloth with a Good dust jacket. A few chips and tears to jacket including one tear the full height of the jacket at spine; jacket presents well in new mylar sleeve. Toning to interior. Text is unmarked. Royal 8vo 9 3/4"h x 6 1/2"w. Uncommon First Edition in jacket. Finnegans Wake is groundbreaking work of modernist literature that challenges conventional narrative forms and explores the complexities of language history and the human psyche. he novel breaks down traditional linguistic structures creating a text that is both elusive and rich in meaning. The story is presented in a cyclical structure reflecting Joyce’s view of history as repetitive and fluid while its dream-like quality mirrors the erratic flow of consciousness. Drawing on a vast array of cultural literary and historical references Finnegans Wake engages with profound philosophical questions about the nature of language identity and reality. This intertextual and experimental novel defies simple interpretation inviting readers to explore its layers of meaning and challenging the boundaries of what a novel can achieve. A cornerstone of 20th-century literature Finnegans Wake has had a lasting influence on both literary theory and creative expression making it a pivotal work for those interested in the intersections of language philosophy and narrative innovation. Faber and Faber hardcover
1946rif. TH242545Faber & Faber London 1946. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 8vo in rust red cloth gilt lettering to spine 628pp plus 28pp 'Corrections of misprints' at rear. This is the first reprint and first issue thus __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy page-block edges slightly tanned in a very lightly edge-nicked and slightly tanned but otherwise near FINE Dust Jacket looks fine in its removable transparent protector. An uncommonly nice copy. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Faber & Faber, London hardcover
rif. 112465London Faber & Faber 1939. . First edition first impression trade issue; large 8vo; toning to the first and last leaves from the endpapers as always; publisher's burgundy cloth titles to spine gilt with the unclipped dust-jacket dust-jacket with some slight loss at head of spine slight rubbing to extremities spine a little toned else very good; housed in green morocco gilt solander box. 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
1993rif. 338219-MC1Darmstadt : Verlag Jürgen Häusser 1993. Hardcover. Good. Original cloth illustrated transperent dust jacket 1 full page colour illustrations large folio circa 42x30cm.; No slipcase. [Darmstadt] : Verlag Jürgen Häusser hardcover
2012rif. DADAX144747029XREAD BOOKS 2012-12-17. Illustrated. paperback. New. 5.50x1.86x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. READ BOOKS paperback
1955rif. 318453New York: Viking 1955. sixth. hardcover. very good/very good-. 4 643 pages. Thick 8vo gilt-lettered red cloth d.w. edgeworn and with a few chips. New York: Viking 1955. Sixth printing. Cloth lightly worn at extremities still very good in very good- dust wrapper. This edition includes a list of corrections of misprints as prepared by the author after publication of the first edition. Viking unknown
2022rif. x-9356569193DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP 2022. Paperback. New. 506 pages. 9.02x6.02x1.38 inches. DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP paperback
2014rif. 683Mint or As New acc to preference. First edition thus. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Black cloth blocked in color with all the gilt letters strewn in the cover design bright and fresh. Frontispiece and color plates by John Vernon Lord. Pristine copy in its pristine slipcase as issued. $100 surcharge for secure shipment of this large and heavy book abroad. $30.00 surcharge for insured shipment within US. Folio Press hardcover
1955rif. 577466New York: The Viking Press 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sixth printing. Page edges lightly toned near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and rear panel and a chip and tear at the crown. The Viking Press hardcover
1939rif. 171352London: Faber & Faber; Viking Press New York 1939. His final and most experimental work First edition signed limited issue number 366 of 425 copies signed by the author printed on handmade paper and specially bound; complete with the publisher's slipcase. The limitation was split between the British and American markets and sold simultaneously with the trade issues on 4 May 1939. "The most conspicuous innovation of Finnegans Wake is its use of 'dream-language'. After Ulysses Joyce believed that he had 'come to the end of English' and his last novel is a pervasive layering of multilingual puns in successive drafts which produces a fabric rich in semantic possibilities" ODNB. Large octavo. Original red buckram spine lettered and ruled in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut leaves unopened. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Later compliments slip from Patricia MacManus 1914-2005 of the Viking Press marking the publication of Steinbeck's East of Eden on 19 September 1952 loosely inserted. Spine very gently sunned and bumped at foot minor rubbing internally clean; lightly soiled slipcase with wear to edges and two short splits: a near-fine copy. Burgess 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 p. 25; Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A49. hardcover
1939rif. 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
1950rif. 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
1939rif. 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
rif. 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
rif. 3518114395.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2010rif. 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
rif. 8087888111.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939rif. 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
