James Joyce
Anna Livia Plurabelle, 1928
NY: Crosby Gaige
One of 800 copies of the first edition.
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An early publication of part of Joyce's later Finnegan's Wake. Joyce described the episode as 'a chattering dialogue across the river by two washerwomen who as night falls become a...
An early publication of part of Joyce's later Finnegan's Wake. Joyce described the episode as "a chattering dialogue across the river by two washerwomen who as night falls become a tree and a stone," and that the literary effort was "an attempt to subordinate words to the rhythm of water." Bound in brown cloth over board with cover rules blind-stamped and motif and spine decoration in gilt. Mild rubbing at corners, tender one-inch tear at gutter-side of title page, else near fine. T.e.g.
