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First Engllish edition. 628 pp. Large 8vo. A nice copy of Joyce's notoriously difficult night book the companion to his day book, Ulysses and the watermark of high modernism. Almost never read, it is simply, or rather confoundedly, one of the richest books ever written. Slocum & Calhoun A47 Publisher's red cloth with a couple tiny marks to front cover, teg, other edges uncut, foxing to endpapers extending inwards one leaf on each side, early gift inscription to ffep; dust jacket with some chipping and loss around top edge, repaired with Japanese tissue.

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works in the Western canon. The book, Joyce's final and most avant-garde work, is structured as a sort of feverish dream containing multilingual puns, numerous literary and historical allusions, and a rich tapestry of themes.