Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1950. New Edition. Pp 628, With 28 pages of corrections. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, in publisher’s maroon dust jacket printed in yellow. Jacket lightly chipped along top edge, with repairs to inner folds. A nice bright copy.

A new edition of Joyce’s novel hitherto described as ‘Work in Progress’ and finally published as Finnegans Wake in 1939.

Ex Libris Andrew Salkey, with his signature to front free endpaper.

Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) was a prolific Jamaican novelist, poet, journalist, and children’s book author of Panamanian birth. His literary output spanned over thirty books, including novels like A Quality of Violence, poetry collections, travelogues, and anthologies. His work often explored themes of identity, fatherlessness, and exile, drawing on Jamaican oral traditions.