Lot 277
Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£278
Description
London: Egoist Press, 1917 [i.e. 1918]. 8vo, [vi] 299 pp., original green cloth, spine darkened, a few small marks and areas of cockling to covers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, small nick to foot of pp. 179-82 [Slocum & Cahoon A13]
Footnote
First UK edition to be printed in the country, the third edition overall, one of 1,000 copies: the work was first published in New York in 1916; the first UK edition of the following year comprised the American sheets with a cancel title-page.