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Lot 136
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 -
5,000
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$6,930
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Lot Description
[Literature] Joyce, James Finnegans Wake
London: Faber & Faber Limited/New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First and limited edition, #292/425 numbered copies, signed by Joyce in green ink. Tall 8vo. (viii), 628 pp. Publisher's full brick red cloth, stamped in gilt, spine lightly faded; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; text partially unopened; in original yellow cloth slip case, soiled and moderately worn. Slocum & Cahoon 49
A handsome and partially unopened copy of the signed limited edition of Joyce's final complete work.