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Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, first trade edition, 1939
Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, first trade edition, 1939
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Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, first trade edition, browning to endpapers and final text p., faint tape markings to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, a few nicks and closed tears to head and foot with some creasing and tape residue to verso (though without show-through), chip to head of lower panel, still an excellent example overall, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A47], 8vo, 1939.*** Joyce's final complete prose work and something of an apotheosis for modernist fiction.
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Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, first trade edition, 1939

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