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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; short split to
title/limitation leaf near gutter where affixed to following page, contents clean.
NewYork: Crosby Gaige, 1928
[1,500/2,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
NUMBER
426
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).An
attractive copy. Slocum & Cahoon A32.
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JOYCE, JAMES.
A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man.
8vo, pub-
lisher’s blue cloth stamped in blind and
gilt, spine tips and corners with light rub-
bing, small dampstain along top portion
of front cover; contents clean.
FIRST EDI
-
TION
; preceding the English edition,
which was issued from the American
sheets, by two months. Slocum & Cahoon
11; Connolly,The Modern Movement 26.
NewYork: B.W. Huebsch, 1916
[2,000/3,000]
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