A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Man

London: Egoist Press,, 1916. Octavo. Original green cloth, recased with original spine laid down, titles in blind to front board and to spine gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. A little wear to top edge of rear cover, hinges repaired, short closed tear to head of pp. 117-20. A very good copy. First edition, English issue from American sheets. A rare presentation copy with the exceptionally early authorial inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Edmund Brauchbar James Joyce Zurich, Switzerland, 12/iii/[1]917". A superb association: Edmund Brauchbar formed a long-lasting friendship with Joyce and has been proposed as a partial model for Leopold Bloom. He was one of a number of assimilated Jews who became Joyce's patrons in Zurich by taking English lessons with him, and from whom in turn Joyce sought information about Judaism. In 1939 Joyce tried to get Brauchbar's cousin out of Nazi Europe into America, and there is evidence to suggest that the publisher Benjamin Huebsch, Brauchbar, and Joyce were all involved in a kind of underground operation to help several Jews escape to America, Ireland, and Australia. When in 1940 Joyce and his family were allowed entry to neutral Switzerland, part of the exorbitant financial guarantee demanded was deposited on his behalf by Brauchbar. Joyce's first novel was published in America by Huebsch from whom Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press, purchased "not more than 750" sets of sheets, issuing them here a year before her own UK printing of 1917. From the library of writer, editor, and Joyce collector Alexander Neubauer, with his bookplate to the inside of the folding case.

London: Egoist Press,, 1917. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board in blind and to spine gilt. Housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Contents browned, spine cocked and severely sunned. Very good. So-called second edition; the first edition to be printed in the UK. This edition was preceded by the English issue of the Huebsch edition of 1916. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, "To George and Mary Slocombe James Joyce Paris 7. i. 926"; George Slocombe was an English journalist writing for the American papers. He also wrote a book called The Heart of France - Parisian, provincial & peasant, etc (1934). He reviewed Ulysses when it came out, and he is listed by Joyce as one of the select recipients of a press copy. Joyce's inscription usually appears on the front free endpaper; in this copy, however, that space is occupied by the inscription of the book's first owner, Allan Ross Macdougall, an American in Paris, friend and later biographer of Isadora Duncan. Presentation copies of this printing are rare and examples with such interesting Parisian provenance are exceptional in all regards.

Huebsch, 1916 First Edition, First Printing preceding the English edition, which was issued from the American sheets, by two months. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL blue cloth from the publisher. The book is in fantastic condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with a hint of wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Joyce First Editions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Medium blue cloth, lettered in gilt and blind. Top edge slightly dust darkened, trivial rubbing at crown and toe of spine, but a very near fine copy, in a fragment of the very scarce printed dust jacket. First edition. Although serialized in 25 installments in THE EGOIST from Feb. 1914 to Sept. 1915, British printers and publishers, then still reeling from the suppression of Lawrence's THE RAINBOW, were unreceptive in their responses to Joyce's efforts toward publication in book form. Based in part on Harriet Weaver's guarantee of 750 sets of sheets for the slightly later Egoist Press issue, Huebsch took on the novel for December publication. The size of the first printing may have been reasonably conservative, and a second printing was called for in April 1917. The printed dust jacket for this book is rather scarce; the present fragment consists of the rear flap (blank), the rear panel (an advert for the Huebsch edition of THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER - wanting two significant chips in the blank area), and a portion of the spine (with "AR / AS / YOUNG MAN / JOYCE / $1.50 net" intact). " ... the Portrait can be read as either an autobiography or a novel. A landmark in sensibility, the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end" - Connolly. SLOCUM & CAHOON A11. CONNOLLY MODERN MOVEMENT 26.

New York: B. W. Huebsch,, 1916. Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, blind lettered front cover. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Neat book label of "Alice B. Egan, Medford, Oregon". Spine slightly rolled, a couple of small pale marks on front cover, a few leaves very slightly creased at head. Still a fine bright copy. First edition, first printing. Due at least in part to the hostile reaction to its serialization in The Egoist, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, on 29 December 1916. He reserved from his print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the following February. Although the number of copies originally issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have been large since Huebsch had sold out by March 1917 and called for a second printing by April.

New York: B. W. Huebsch,, 1916. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. Housed in a dark blue flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities with a few tiny marks. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing, and a very attractive copy of Joyce's first novel. Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, first published on 29 December 1916. He sent from this print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the following February. Although the number of copies issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have been large since Huebsch had sold out by March and called for a second printing by April.

New York: Huebsch, 1916 First edition, first printing. Original publisher's blue cloth, blind-stamped front cover and gilt spine. A tight and clean copy with some rubbing to edges and spine ends, and some toning to spine. Internally fine and free of any marks, writing or bookplates. A very good copy of the author's first novel. Housed in a custom folding case. Slocum & Cahoon A11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel and is virtually a complete rewrite of his abandoned novel, Stephen Hero. The semi-autobiographical text was first published serially in twenty-one monthly installments in the British literary magazine The Egoist from February 1914-September 1915. It was first published in book form in 1916; this copy precedes the first English edition by two months. Partially due to readers' critical reactions, many British publishers initially rejected Portrait, so it was first published in the United States. The plot tells of Stephen Daedalus, whose name alludes to both the Christian martyr Saint Stephen and the Greek mythological inventor Daedalus. It is a Künstlerroman, a subset of the bildungsroman genre, specific to the development of young artists. The novel is written in third-person with the spirit of first-person in Joyce's characteristic style of free indirect speech; Joyce's writing style matures along with Daedalus' own consciousness so that the sophistication of the narrator's voice mirrors the protagonist's level of awareness.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG+ handsome copy and true first edition/first printing. Original blue cloth w blind stamped title/author on cover and gilt font on spine.299 pps. Spine is slightly rolled, cloth rubbed at extremities. Cover corners very lightly bumped. Front and back hinge partial and light crack, 1/4" ripple of cloth on back cover. No markings, paste downs, stamps, nor writing/markings of any sort within interior pages which are completely clean, tight and bright. albeit lightly age toned."Huebsch undertook the true first publication. He would send from this print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK in February 1917. Whilst the number of copies issued in America is undetermined the number could not have been large." "Stephen Dedalus describes his spiritual journey through his Jesuit education and petty bourgeois Dublin to forge through 'silence, exile and cunning' the 'uncreated conscience of his race.' Following close on 'Dubliner's' (for it appeared through 1915 as a serial in 'The Egoist') The Portrait can be read either as an autobiography or a novel. A landmark in sensibility, the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end" (Connolly). This is the first edition of the book published in New York in 1916. Included is facsimile of TLS review of 1 March 1917 by Arthur Clutton-Brock with photo of Joyce in 1918..

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. 299 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, blind stamped front board. A Near Fine copy with an owner inscription on top of first page, dated 1917; small faint stains to front board and top edge, little bit of rubbing to head and foot. No jacket. A very nice copy of the first novel by the innovative Irish writer, printed in the US before its British issue.

B.W. Huebsch, New York., 1916. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 299.Spine slightly dull and a bit rubbed at the ends. Corners also slightly rubbed. Very good. No dustwrapper.

New York: Huebsch, 1916. First edition of Joyce's classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. In excellent condition without the usual fade to the spine with some rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

New York: B. W. Huebsch,, 1916. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Couple of spots to prelims, an excellent copy in a fine binding. First edition, first printing. Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. So it was Huebsch that undertook the true first publication. He would send from this print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK in February 1917. Whilst the number of copies issued in America is undetermined the number could not have been large since he had sold out by March and called for a second printing by April.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 7 5/8" Tall. 299 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt, Front Cover Blind Stamped. First Printing (No Additional Printing Noted). This American Edition Precedes All Other Published Editions. Condition Is Exceptionally Attractive. Contents Evenly Aged, Otherwise Unmarked And Unstained, With A Few Tiny Foxing Spots In The Book. Spine Lightly Rubbed Along Very Top And Bottom Edges Only, With Pinpoint Rubs At Tips, No Fraying Or Damage And Almost No Loss Of Color, Boards Otherwise With Original Bright, Even Color. Spine Gilt Quite Bright Although Not Brilliant. Top Edge Of Page Block Is Very Dusty. Original Cloth And Endpapers, Re-Cased [Re-Glued And Tightened]; Not Ex-Library, No Previous Owners' Marks.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge tender, but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church, school system, family, and national politics. Feeling trapped, Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings, Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead, he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions, alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism, alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation, Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel, which starts in Stephen's infancy, is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it, the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel, H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive, imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling, but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, preceding the English edition. Octavo. 299pp. Blue cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper, a bit of wear on the cloth especially at the spine ends, small stain in the margin of about a dozen leaves of text near the end, front hinge seamlessly repaired, a very good copy of a landmark title, lacking the rare dustwrapper.

London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First English Edition, English sheets, preceded by an edition using the American (Huebsch) sheets, as English printers had refused to print it. About 1000 copies were printed. A very good copy.

London: Egoist Press,, 1917. Octavo (180 x 123 mm). Contemporary green quarter calf, titles to spine in gilt, raised bands to spine, green and gilt marbled paper sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pale green book marker, marbled endpapers. Spine faded, slight rubbing to extremities, faint toning to margins, short closed tear to fore edge of first blank; a very good copy indeed. First edition to be printed in the UK, the so-called second edition, preceded by the English issue of the US edition. Joyce's first novel was originally published in book form by Huebsch in New York in 1916. Due at least in part to the hostile reaction to its original serialization in The Egoist (from February 1914 to September 1915) no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press, therefore purchased and bound "not more than 750" sets of the US sheets, and issued them under the Egoist imprint. She then issued the present edition using sheets printed in the UK.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc. , 1927. FIRST EDITION, second printing. Full blue cloth with blind stamped name on the front cover gilt lettering on the spine. Stated "Second printing, April, 1917" on the copyrigh page. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in EXCELLENT condition.. First Edition. Full Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Jonathan Cape, 1928 The 6th impression, 1928, in the very rare original dust jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Three quarter inch closed tear at top front of jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase.. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Viking Press. PAPERBACK. B00BC5FJIA Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence! . Very Good.

Book Jungle, 2008-03-13. Paperback. Good.

BiblioLife. Used - Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear.

LONDON: The Egoist Ltd, 1917. First UK edition of 1000 copies (often refered to as the 2nd edition) printed in Southport at the 'Visiter' Printing Works. Original green cloth with blind-stamped title to upper board, spine discoloured with age with slight fraying to head and tail. Page margins slightly age browned, front hinge a little cracked but binding still tight, old owner's name in ink at top of front (blank) end-paper. 299pp. Overall a near VG copy.. 1st UK Edition. Cloth. Good+. Small 8vo.

London: The Egoist. Fair with no dust jacket. (1917). Hardcover. The first English edition from sheets printed in England. This edition was preceded by an earlier English edition from American sheets [Reference: Slocum and Cahoon 13]. Copyright page has: "Copyright, 1916, By B. W. Huebsch, New York. First edition printed in the United States of America, 1916. Second Edition, 1917. Visiter Printing Works, Southport." Title page imprint: "The Egoist Ltd. 23 Adelphi Terrace House W. C. London". Original green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and blind-stamped title on front board. [vi], 299 pages. Page dimensions: 182 x 119mm. A 3 1/2" tear to cloth along lower part of front joint. Cloth frayed and torn along both ends of spine. A couple of <1/2" vertical tears to cloth at head of spine, with slight loss of cloth. A few marks to cloth. Corners bruised. No loss of cloth at corners of boards. Internally good. No signatures. Narrow split to gutter between the half-title and the title pages. No splitting to gutters at endpapers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. Joyce's iconic novel was his breakout and remains popular and in print today. This is a Poor to Good copy of the First American Edition, which preceded the English version by two months. Blue cloth binding stamped on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 299 pages. Although intact, the binding is in rather rough condition. Frayed and split along the edges of the spine; gutters cracked. There have been amateur attempts at repair that have utilized strapping tape. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration. Quercus notes that professional repairs or rebinding would be gratifying and certainly rewarding to the collector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Huebsch, 1917. Stated 2nd printing, good plus, no dj. Spine ends rubbed and faded; spine a little darkened. Small armorial bookplate on front pastedown; blind-stamped owner's name (in Gothic script) on ffep; odd spot that looks like foxing on the half-title, though there is no other foxing. Occasional margin notes in pencil; also the rear endpapers are filled with notes. On the rear pastedown the owner claims to have met Joyce in Paris in 1929, introduced by agent Madeleine Boyd (the discoverer of Thomas Wolfe). "He was almost blind, talked to his daughter in Italian, recited some of the "Work In Progress" later called Finnegan's Wake + then had records of it played while he dozed off to sleep." 299 pp.. Hard Cover.

NY: Viking Press, 1961 Fifteenth printing.. Softcover. Good/No Jacket.

Perfection Learning Corporation, 2006. Library Binding. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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London: The Egoist Press, [1921]. THIRD ENGLISH EDITION. The first printing was 1916 by Huebsch. This was followed by a 1917 Egoist Press edition which used imported sheets from Huebsch (Harriet Shaw Weaver estimated that less than 750 copies were imported). The Egoist Press printed an edition of 1000 copies in 1918, which is the first edition to actually be printed in England. The present book is from an edition of 1000 additional sets of sheets imported from Huebsch. When the Egoist inventory was sold to Jonathan Cape in 1924 there were 130 copies of this edition still remaining unsold, making the 1921 Egoist edition only 870 copies. This copy shows some rubbing and light edge wear. A very good copy.

Palgrave Macmillan , 1993. Paperback. As New. As New

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Pristine. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. SEALED in the original SHRINK WRAP As New, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Mint. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Pristine. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Amereon Ltd, 1983-10. Hardcover. Good.

North Books, 1998-09. Hardcover. Good.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover small Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. Very good. Keogh, Brian. quarter-bound in black gilt-decorated leather, green papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, 254 pp, housed in green slipcase with title label at spine, very light sunning and wear, numbered 169 of1500, illustrated by Brian Keogh, signed by the illustrater at the limitations page.

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1968., 1968. First edition thus. Large 8vo. Introduction by Hugh Kenner. Illustrated by Brian Keogh (many in color, one double-page). Original gilt stamped black morocco over light gray/green boards, matching endpapers. Glassine dust jacket (chips on the spine ends). Fine. Publisher's matching board box. Number 938 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Brian Keogh on limitation page.. Signed by Illustrator(s). Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Palgrave Macmillan , 1993. Paperback. LIKE NEW. Like New

Routledge, 1993-06-01. 1. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Routledge. Hardcover. 0815312784 Special order direct from the distributor . New.

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New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922. This is a Very Good copy of Joyce's great novel, one of the triumphs of 20th-Century Irish literature, the Fifth Printing of the First Edition. Blue cloth binding with blindstamped front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 299 pages. Tanning to the paste-downs. Binding has some wear, but remains respectable, much better than usually seen. Some rubbing to the margins (tips and spine), and when held at the correct angle, some glass rings are visible on both front and rear boards. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Amereon Ltd. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. New. Size=7"x10.". (full book description) The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1977. Collector's Ed. NEW, Leather Bound, DJ Not Issued. Size=7"x10.", 254 pages. Brand New Copy. Clean, very very tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, etc. Unread and unopened due to its tightness. Dark green leather binding, gold gilt letters & cover designs, 5 raised spine ribs, all around page end gold gilt, attached satin page marker & moire endpapers. A volume in Easton Press series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". [Leather Bindings; Classic Fiction; Collectors Edition; NEW BOOK; Novels] SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!