The Lion's Mouth.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Fine. The first edition, as far as this cataloguer is aware, of a section from the manuscript of Finnegans Wake which was almost entirely omitted from the final publication. ‘With groaning which could not be all uttered down he sat, he lifted up his shirt-sleeves, while many in the baronet publican’s banner room, who did not dare, heard him declare: I will give £10 tomorrow gladly to the first fellow who will put her in the royal canal’

• Year: 2014

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