This copy of the first English edition of James Joyce's Anna Livia Plurabelle is inscribed by James Joyce for the Danish author and critic Tom Kristensen in the early fall of 1936. The inscription reads: “To Tom Kristensen/ James Joyce/ København 5.IX.'36”. Below Joyce's inscription Tom Kristensen has later inscribed the book for Rasmus [presumably the publisher Rasmus Naver] as a present for his 50th birhtday in 1944.

The inscribed book documents the important meeting between one of the most important modernist authors of all time with the most important Danish modernist author in Copenhagen in 1936. The two met by coincidence in the book store Politiken's Boghal in August 1936 where Tom Kristensen recognized the famous author of Ulysses - the monumental work that Tom Kristensen himself as the first person had promoted in Denmark in a couple of articles in 1931. Joyce also recognized Tom Kristensen and asked him to translate his monumental modernist novel, but Tom Kristensen declined and told him it would take him at least ten years.

In 1960 he wrote about his meeting with Joyce in an article in the Danish newspaper Politiken and here he mentions the copy of Anna Livia Plurabella here presented: “Saa nu kan jeg sidde tilbage med Billederne af den høje, halvblinde Skikkelse, der i Skumringen forsigtigt famlede sig over fra Teatret til Magasin du Nord, - han burde have gaaet med gult Armbind, - og af den anden venlige Digter, der skruede de mærkeligste Linser paa sine Briller for at se mit Eksemplar af 'Anna Livia Plurabella'.” Reference: Tom Kristensen: “James Joyce i København”, Politiken 28 February 1960.