JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Finnegans Wake. London Faber & Faber, 1939.
The Library of David Lloyd, Part IJOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.
Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, typographic dust jacket, usual toning to first blank and last text page. Dust jacket with short tear to front panel. FIRST EDITION, trade issue. A bright copy of the work of which Harold Bloom said, "... if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon, Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante" (Bloom, The Western Canon, New York, 1994). Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A47.
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The Library of David Lloyd, Part IJOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.
Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, typographic dust jacket, usual toning to first blank and last text page. Dust jacket with short tear to front panel. FIRST EDITION, trade issue. A bright copy of the work of which Harold Bloom said, "... if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon, Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante" (Bloom, The Western Canon, New York, 1994). Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A47.
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