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JOYCE, JAMES. Anna Livia Plurabelle. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, original glassine wrapper, torn with partial loss; preserved in felt-lined clamshell box. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928
first edition. number 539 of 800 copies signed by joyce. First separate publication of what was to become one of the most lyrical, as well as intricately constructed, passages of Finnegans Wake. "He was prepared, he said, 'to stake everything' on this section of his book" (Ellman, 598). A beautiful copy in the scarce glassine. Slocum & Cahoon A32.
