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JOYCE (JAMES) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, FIRST EDITION, WITH DUST-JACKET, New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916
24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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JOYCE (JAMES)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, FIRST EDITION, WITH DUST-JACKET, half-title, publisher's blue cloth, upper cover with title stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, original cream dust-jacket printed in black (vertical crease to front and back panel, slightly frayed at edges and with 4 small tape repairs on verso), preserved in blue cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase with gilt lettered spine [Slocum & Cahoon A11; Connolly The Modern Movement 26], 8vo, New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916
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A REMARKABLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY OF JOYCE'S SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FIRST NOVEL, IN THE VERY RARE DUST-JACKET.
Joyce's modernist masterpiece, chronicling "Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society" (Seamus Deane, Introduction to Penguin Classics edition).





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