Joyce, James | First edition of Joyce's semi-autobiographical Portrait of the Artist, in jacket

Joyce, James

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916

8vo (187 x 124 mm). Half-title; hint of browning at page edges. Publisher's blue cloth, front cover blind-lettered, spine gilt-lettered; extremities very slightly rubbed. Publisher's cream dust-jacket printed in black; restored, the spine heavily so with some lettering supplied in pen and ink, marginal chipping. Blue morocco folding-case's spine a bit faded.

First edition of Joyce's first novel, with the rare dust jacket.

REFERENCE:

Slocum & Cahoon A11; Connolly, The Modern Movement 26