8vo. Half-title. Original brown cloth gilt, top edge gilt (slight rubbing); morocco-backed folding case. 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy of an edition of 800 copies SIGNED BY JOYCE.  Anna Livia Plurabelle, Chapter I of Finnegans Wake, was published in translation in November 1927 prior to the present separate publication. The chapter, named after its heroine Anna Livia Plurabelle, includes some of the Wake's most lyrical passages and was considered by Joyce to be the most beautiful section of Finnegans Wake. He incorporated nearly 350 river names into the text, and was "prepared, he said, 'to stake everything' on this section of his book" (Ellman 598). Slocum and Cahoon A32.