JOYCE JAMES Finnegans Wake

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JOYCE, JAMES. Finnegans Wake. Tall 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth; dust jacket priced at $5.00, overall light smudging, few fold corner nicks, faint spine panel fade; contents clean. New York: Viking, 1939

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first american edition, trade issue, in unrestored jacket. One of 6000 copies printed offset from advance proofs of the English edition. Reviewer's copy, with the publisher's slip laid in, ominously beginning: "We recognize that James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will probably be the toughest reviewing assignment of the year." Slocum & Cahoon A48.