Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1948. Third Edition. Pp 628, with 28 pages of ‘Corrections of Misprints’. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, in publisher’s maroon dust jacket printed in yellow. Jacket with some loss to top edge and chipped along top edge.

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

“When one of the greatest of modern authors completes a work to which he has devoted sixteen years of labour, then the publishers feel that they should waste no words in describing the book which would be the most important event of any season in which it appeared.”