Joyce, James

8vo. Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt spine title in original cream dust-jacket printed in black; very minor restoration to jacket spine ends and to two small areas along very top edge of rear panel with the lettering unaffected in each, but the jacket remains crisp and without rubbing or soiling to panels, only the folds are slightly rubbed with a few minute areas of restoration. Black half-morocco case.

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller James Joyce catalog item 26 ("a lovely copy')

Slocum and Cahoon A11;  Connolly The Modern Movement 26

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First edition of Joyce's first novel in the rare dust jacket. While the number of copies printed is unknown, it was likely few and even the reprints of 1917, 1918 and 1921 are extremely uncommon in jacket. The present is a highly attractive example and one without the tears, soiling, heavy restoration or loss marring the others that have sold at auction in the last 30 years.