Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 484

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JOYCE, JAMES. Anna Livia Plurabelle. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut; minimal rubbing to head and foot of spine; title/limitation leaf detached, contents clean. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928

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first edition. number 199 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). Slocum & Cahoon A32.