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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #88 Finnegans Wake

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Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000

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Title:

Finnegans Wake

Author:

Joyce, James

Place Published:

London & New York

Publisher:

Faber & Faber/Viking

Date Published:

1939

Description:

[6], 628 pp. 25.5x16 cm. (10x6¼"), original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 252 of 425 copies. First Edition.

Signed by Joyce on the limitation-page. This is one of 300 copies for the United States of America; the other 125 were for Great Britain. Slocum & Cahoon A49. Sticker of bookseller Philip C. Duschnes to rear pastedown.

Condition:

Very slight fading to spine, a bit of rubbing to spine ends and corners; slight cracking to hinge at pp. 2-3 (as is often the case); else fine.

Item#:

211844

Headline:

Finnegans Wake 1/425 signed by Joyce
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