JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York B.W. Huebsch, 1916.
The Library of David Lloyd, Part IJOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, spine gilt lettered. Publisher's cream dust jacket printed in black; cloth folding case. Tiny marginal tear to title, dust jacket expertly restored, the spine with some lettering supplied in pen and ink, joints and some edges reinforced. FIRST EDITION, WITH THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET preceding the English edition (issued from the American sheets) by two months. Joyce's great autobiographical novel "a landmark in sensibility, the prose moved forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end..." (Slocum). Connolly Modern Movement 26; Slocum & Cahoon A11.
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The Library of David Lloyd, Part IJOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, spine gilt lettered. Publisher's cream dust jacket printed in black; cloth folding case. Tiny marginal tear to title, dust jacket expertly restored, the spine with some lettering supplied in pen and ink, joints and some edges reinforced. FIRST EDITION, WITH THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET preceding the English edition (issued from the American sheets) by two months. Joyce's great autobiographical novel "a landmark in sensibility, the prose moved forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end..." (Slocum). Connolly Modern Movement 26; Slocum & Cahoon A11.
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