Finnegans Wake. [First edition in original dustjacket].. This item is unavailable.Finnegans Wake. [First edition in original dustjacket].

London, Faber and Faber, 1939, 1st ed., (4),628 pag., bound in original full burgundy cloth, with dustjacket, top edge dyed yellow, edges untrimmed, large octavo. = First trade edition published simultaneously with the signed limited edition of 425 copies. Dustjacket priice-clipped and lacking small portions at spine-ends and corners worn; upper joint of jacket torn over 2/3 of the height of the jacket; jacket presents well in the new mylar sleeve. Upper pastedown with small Australian bookseller's ticket; upper joint expertly restored/ reinforced between first and second blank after having been strengthened with tape before (all acidic tape now removed; full restoraton report available); first free endpaper with owner's stamp (Colin Cosgrove) and same name in pen on second blank; final text-page some browning.