JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake . London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Large 8° (243 x 158mm). Half title (final page of text and one front free endpaper browned). Original red cloth, spine gilt, uncut, dust-jacket printed in red and yellow. Provenance : Walter Hirst (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Slocum 47: "A letter from Faber & Faber, June 11, 1948, states: 'The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the public, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed.'"
JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake . London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Large 8° (243 x 158mm). Half title (final page of text and one front free endpaper browned). Original red cloth, spine gilt, uncut, dust-jacket printed in red and yellow. Provenance : Walter Hirst (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Slocum 47: "A letter from Faber & Faber, June 11, 1948, states: 'The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the public, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed.'"
JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake . London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Large 8° (243 x 158mm). Half title (final page of text and one front free endpaper browned). Original red cloth, spine gilt, uncut, dust-jacket printed in red and yellow. Provenance : Walter Hirst (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Slocum 47: "A letter from Faber & Faber, June 11, 1948, states: 'The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the public, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed.'"
JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake . London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Large 8° (243 x 158mm). Half title (final page of text and one front free endpaper browned). Original red cloth, spine gilt, uncut, dust-jacket printed in red and yellow. Provenance : Walter Hirst (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Slocum 47: "A letter from Faber & Faber, June 11, 1948, states: 'The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the public, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed.'"
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