JOYCE | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916, New York

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JOYCE, JAMES

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. NEW YORK: HUEBSCH, 1916

8vo, FIRST EDITION, original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt spine title, minor tear to preliminary blank at margin, rubbed, spine faded

THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE'S GREAT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, as published on 29 December 1916. The first English edition was followed on 12 February 1917 (although, as noted by Slocum and Cahoon, the English edition used "American sheets because English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it").

As noted by Connolly, the book is "a landmark in sensibility, the prose moved forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end..."

LITERATURE:

Slocum and Cahoon A11; Connolly The Modern Movement 26

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