JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. [Signed Limited Edition]

PERSONIFIES THE LIFFEY - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY JOYCE

With a preface by Padraic Colum. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, first printing. pp. xviii, [1], 61. Bound in brown cloth, blind-stamped and with inverted gilt triangle in the centre of the upper cover. Spine with gilt title and decorations. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies, signed by James Joyce. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.

Slocum & Cahoon A32.

As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. Eliot to shepherd an early extract, simply known as ‘Work in Progress’ into print. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce’s extraordinary text to be published in England. It became the best-known section of Finnegans Wake, and one of Joyce’s favourites; revised and published independently more times than any other piece. The present first edition precedes the English edition by two years.