Lot 201
  • 201

Joyce, James

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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Ink on paper
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Huebsch, 1926

8vo (7 1/2 x 5 ins; 190 x 130 mm). Publisher's blue linen cloth, spine stamped in gilt, upper cover in blind; an absolutely fresh, bright copy. Coth case.

Literature

 Connolly  26; Slocum & Cahoon A11

Catalogue Note

First edition of Joyce's first novel, earlier serialized in The Egoist. "A landmark in sensibility, the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end..." (Connolly) "