The Books at the Wake. A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. London: Faber, 1959. First Edition. A nice bright copy in dust jacket.

Signed by the Author on the title page. Also with two typed letters signed by him inserted.

A detailed study of the written sources Joyce used when composing Finnegans Wake and of the function these sources play in his work. Entire chapters are devoted to such major figures as Swift and Lewis Carroll, while less important influences are grouped together under such headings as ‘The Irish Writers’ and ‘The Fathers of the Church.’

British Joyce scholar, James S. Atherton (1910-1985) was one of the leading English authority on Finnegans Wake.