Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 095477101X
- ISBN 13
- 9780954771010
- Seller
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Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
First Edition. New. One of 800 copies printed on Arcoprint and hardbound in black Imitlin, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and presented in a grey card slipcase with a complementary volume of essays.
The first critically emended and completely reset edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake since its original publication in 1939. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, designed by Martino Mardersteig, set in the Dante Val typeface, and printed offset and bound by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona for Houyhnhnm Press, Dublin. This First Edition is limited to a Special Issue consisting of 26 Lettered, 150 Numbered and 24 Hors Commerce copies printed on Magnani Mould made paper and hardbound in black calfskin; and a Trade Issue of 800 copies printed on Arcoprint and hardbound in black Imitlin and presented in a grey card slipcase.
Synopsis
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for an experimental style and its resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of 17 years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. -
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- Bookseller
- Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FW_2010_Standard
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Format/Binding
- Two volume set: Main volume is hardbound in black Imitlin with gilt stamping; complementary volume is bound in light grey card c
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition; Standard Issue.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 095477101X
- ISBN 13
- 9780954771010
- Publisher
- Houyhnhnm Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 504pp
- Size
- 20 x 28.5cm
Terms of Sale
Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
About the Seller
Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
About Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
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