JOYCE, James.

Anna Livia Plurabelle.

Stock Code 101553

New York, Crosby Gaige, 1928

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Signed limited edition. A very good first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans Wake, and introduce Joyce readers to the character that fellow Irish author Edna O'Brien was to describe as 'the most accessible and indeed beloved character conceived by Joyce'.

First edition, first printing, number 187 of 800 copies signed by the author; device to title, contemporary ink name to front free endpaper; publisher's brown cloth, blind-tooled borders, gilt device to upper cover, gilt spine, slightly rubbed at spine ends, fore-corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt, others uncut.

Slocum & Cahoon A32.

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