Anna Livia Plurabelle. With a Preface by Padraic Colum. Published New York: Crosby Gaige, October 1928. First Edition, Limited Issue. Bound in publisher’s brown cloth, front cover blind stamped with border of three rules in centre, gilt-stamped inverted triangle of three rules. A  fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 800 Copies, Signed by the Author.

First edition of this most celebrated fragment from Finnegans Wake.

The ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ section, which would appear as the eighth chapter in book one, is regarded as one of the most beautiful prose poems in the English language and has earned the most critical praise of any portion of Finnegans Wake.

[Slocum and Cahoon Joyce A32].