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JOYCE, James (1882 - 1941). Finnegans Wake.

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London: Faber and Faber, [1939]. Tall 8vo (235 x 150 mm). Publisher's brick red cloth, in original dust-jacket. Condition: spotting to endpapers; jacket price clipped, short closed tears along foot of spine at fold and panels in margins, light chipping along head of spine. Provenance: Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney. first edition of joyce's final novel, written over a 16 year period. Considered by many to be Joyce's most complex and symbolic work, only 3400 copies were printed of Finnegans Wake, of which 950 were destroyed. Slocum & Cahoon A47.

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