Anna Livia Plurabelle
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. With a preface by Padraic Colum. 12mo (7 x 4 3/4 inches). pp. [xviii], 61. Half-title. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, inverted gilt triangle device to front cover, triple rule and dogtooth roll blocked in blind to covers, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 690 of 800 copies, signed by Joyce on the limitation page verso. Typography by Frederic Warde; distributed in America by Random House. The Gotham Book Mart dealer card laid in.
Cloth bright and firm; light wear to spine extremities and corners. Text and limitation page clean; signature crisp and fully legible. A very good copy.
Slocum & Cahoon A32.
Anna Livia Plurabelle was the first separately published extract from the work Joyce then called "Work in Progress," which would not appear complete as Finnegans Wake until 1939. The chapter, centered on the river Liffey and its washerwomen, is among the most musical prose Joyce wrote, and the one he revised and republished more times than any other. This American first edition precedes the Faber & Faber edition by two years.
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