Finnegans Wake. by JOYCE, James

London, Faber and Faber. 1939. . First edition, first impression, limited issue; one of 425 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author; large 8vo; publisher's red buckram, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the original yellow cloth slipcase. Spine a little faded as often, trivial rub to one board but an especially nice copy in the rather worn original cloth slipcase.
Finnegans Wake was the work of some seventeen years and essentially is the night to the day that was Ulysses. A book so far ahead of its time that some have observed its time may never come. That said it contains - well everything - or at least that was Joyce's intention. Many passages sing like the music of Ireland. It is a deeply frustrating work of utter genius.

This special edition of 425 signed copies was reserved entirely for sale in the UK, there being a separate limited edition put out in America by Viking. This copy has laid in the 16pp leaflet, Corrections of Misprints in FINNEGANS WAKE.