James Joyce: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', Lond...

Hammer

£300

James Joyce: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', London, The Egoist Ltd., Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, [1917], 1st British edition; American sheets, one of approximately 750 copies of Joyce's classic stream of consciousness work, his first novel. The first edition was printed in America and published by B.W. Huebsch in 1916, this is the first British edition made up of American sheets and published by The Egoist in 1917, "Copyright, 1916, by B.W. Huebsch - Printed in the United States of America" verso title page, 299pp, recased retaining majority of original green cloth, replenished front pastedowns/EP's. Slocum and Cahoon 'Bibliography of James Joyce' A12