Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Hardcover, New York: Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Very Good.

First edition, first printing. Original publisher's blue cloth, blind-stamped front cover and gilt spine. A tight and clean copy with some rubbing to edges and spine ends, and some toning to spine. Internally fine and free of any marks, writing or bookplates. A very good copy of the author's first novel. First serialized in The Egoist in 1914-1915, published in book form in 1916, and precedes the English edition by two months. Portrait is virtually a complete rewrite of Joyce's abandoned novel, Stephen Hero. Housed in a custom folding case. Slocum & Cahoon A11.

Item #JJ008       Price: $6,500.00