Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first English

Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first English edition, together with, Extracts from Some Press Notices... 4pp., margins fractionally toned, folds, 1916, one or two very minor marginal spots at front, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt (unusually bright), spine fractionally sunned, small nick to spine foot, spine ends lightly bumped, a few light scuff marks to covers, minor surface-staining to upper cover head, overall an excellent example, [Slocum & Cahoon A12], 8vo, The Egoist Ltd., [1916 but 1917]. *** One of c.750 copies bound with the sheets from the American first edition after English printers refused to incur the risk of printing. Together with a scarce pamphlet containing reviews of the present work by several publications and writers such as Ezra Pound and H.G. Wells. Not recorded by Slocum & Cahoon: "It is a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss." (H.G. Wells p.1).

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